| All internet users |
Dial-up at home |
Broadband at home (all respondents) |
Accessed internet away from home or work using WiFi on laptop computer |
Pays for premium home broadband services |
|
| Use an online search engine |
49 | 26% | 57% | 68% | 61% |
| Check weather reports and forecasts |
30 | 14 | 36 | 44 | 42 |
| Get news online | 39 | 18 | 47 | 54 | 33 |
| Visit a state or local government website |
13 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 19 |
| Look online for information about the 2008 election |
23 | 10 | 27 | 33 | 34 |
| Watch a video on a video-sharing site like YouTube or GoogleVideo |
16 | 5 | 20 | 28 | 23 |
| Look online for information about a job |
6 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 |
| Send instant messages | 13 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 19 |
| Read someone else’s blog |
11 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 16 |
| Use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn.com |
13 | 7 | 16 | 20 | 21 |
| Make a donation to charity online |
1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Downloaded a podcast | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Download or share files using peer-to-peer networks such as BiTorrent or LiveWire |
3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Create or work on your own blog |
5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 |
| Number of cases | 1,553 | 249 | 1,138 | 504 | 306 |
| Source: Pew Internet Project | |||||