Internet Use by Americans

I came across some interesting statistics regarding how Americans use the Internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, approximately 72 percent of all American adults (145 million Americans) use the Internet, and 94 million use it daily. Approximately 104 million adult Americans (72 percent) report that they have used the Internet to gather news, while 40 million Americans (27 percent) report using the Internet to read blogs. Thirty percent of daily Internet users (28.2 million Americans) use the Internet for news, while 7 percent (6.6 million Americans) read blogs daily. It appears from these statistics that this means roughly one in four Americans who gather news on the Internet daily use blogs as a source for that information. For a complete list of how the Internet is used, see the details from the Pew report here and here.