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| Americans would give up television |
| Americans would give up television before internet: survey
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-February-2014
10:24:23 AM |
| Americans have become so enamored of the Internet, they would more readily forgo television than online access, a survey showed on Thursday.
The Pew Research Center survey released ahead of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web found 53 percent of US Internet users would find it "very hard" to give up Web access, up from 38 percent in 2006.
Even when counting those who don't go online, Pew said 46 percent of all adults would find it hard to give up the Internet.
By contrast, Pew's survey showed 35 percent of all US adults television would be very hard to give up, compared with 44 percent in 2006.
Women were more likely than men to be attached to the Internet, as were people with higher levels of income and education, Pew said in the report issued ahead of the March 12 anniversary.
Cell phone second on list
The cell phone comes in a close second to the Internet: 49 percent of mobile phone owners said it would be difficult to give up their handset, up from 43 percent in 2006. That amounts to 44 percent of all adults who say now that their cell phone would be very hard to live without.
Meanwhile landline telephones are losing favor.
Just 28 percent of landline telephone owners said it would be a hardship to live without this, a big drop from 48 percent in 2006. Because many people have already dropped their landlines, the finding means that just 17 percent of all adults would find their landline very hard to give up.
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