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May 3, 2013New York Times
Several years ago Garrison Phillips, a retired actor, bought himself a Dell computer. He soon recognized that he didn’t know what to do with it. “I needed instruction,” he told me in an interview conducted — perhaps surprisingly — by e-mail. “The ...
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Apr 8, 2013New York Times
Older adults hit a digital milestone last year: For the first time since the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project began conducting surveys, a majority (53 percent) of people over age 65 used the Internet. The proportion has sin...
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Oct 9, 2012Chicago Tribune
My mother recently announced a desire to join Facebook. While at first the thought of my 65-year-old mom "poking" people or "liking" things scared me, I soon realized this could be a good thing. And according to a Pew Internet Project Tracking S...
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Jul 12, 2012NPR
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Facebook started as a social network for colle...
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Jun 23, 2012USA Today
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Nugent says he wants to stay connected with his four daughters and grandchildren.
Mary Madden, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center, says Nugent's reasoning is common.
A recent Pew survey found...
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Jun 7, 2012Agence France Presse
It's taken a while, but a majority of Americans aged 65 and older are now finally using the Internet or email, according to the results of a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday.
Reporting its findings, Pew's Internet research un...
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Jun 7, 2012CNN
It's looking like the digital divide may have less gray hair than it used to -- but it's still a big issue for U.S. seniors.
According to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, for the first time more than half (5...
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Jun 6, 2012PC Mag
Senior citizens are raising the bar for Internet use. For the first time ever, more than half of Americans ages 65 and older are online, according to the Pew Research Center.
Though these adults are less likely than all other age groups...
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