62% of young adults say it would be very hard to do without a cell phone, 51% say that about the internet and more than twice the share that feels this way about the plain old landline telephone.
18-29 | 30-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | |
Cell phone | 62 | 52 | 43 | 37 |
Internet | 51 | 46 | 40 | 34 |
Television | 33 | 40 | 48 | 58 |
Landline telephone | 25 | 34 | 43 | 60 |
37 | 39 | 35 | 33 | |
Number of cases | 311 | 616 | 456 | 310 |
Source: Pew Internet |