11% of Americans don’t use the internet

Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by pathartl on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:10PM (#17596802)

That number doesn't surprise me. I personally did not read a book in whole or in part in 2017 or 2016. It's something I don't need to do for my career and is not a past time of mine. My reading primarily comes from the internet. When I do read it's maybe a handful of books in a year.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by magic_beans on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:36PM (#17596937)

That’s alarming and sad. No pleasure or drug is as powerful as a good work of fiction.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by pathartl on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:25PM (#17603709)

There's nothing sad about it. I know people that hadn't watched a movie or TV show in 2017. I know people that hadn't played a video game in 2017. It's just a matter of perspective and interest.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by LyndsySimon on Monday July 23, 2018 @08:11PM (#17597094)

I don’t think so - web forums and HN itself has taken over a lot of my attention that was once given to books. I still read a book or so a month, but that’s probably a quarter of what it was ten years ago.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by azernik on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:40PM (#17596948)

I have read fiction in the years in question, but most of my fiction consumption lately has been serial TV (by internet). Modulo Sturgeon's Law, the quality in the last decade has gone way up.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by stephengillie on Monday July 23, 2018 @08:09PM (#17597083)

This could be said about Game of Thrones in the first book. Sadly, it's not 1996 anymore.

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