• @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      It’s a bigger number than I’d have picked in a pub quiz, bet there are always people who have medical reasons not to be able to use the internet.

      If you’re in a coma or have a severe mental disability you probably won’t be on Lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          Any good poll accounts for people who won’t pick up the phone. Otherwise you might as well not poll.

          As for the 4%, that’s why I said it’s a bigger number than I’d have picked. There is probably a perfectly reasonable answer as to why it is 4%. I just gave you one example but it’s easy to tink of a few other scenario’s: poverty, lack of internet availability in rural areas, the exact wording of the polling questions, etc. It’s not my poll.

  • SanguinePar
    9•1 year ago

    It’s funny, I’m no longer a “younger person”, but I was, just as the internet was really taking off in the public sphere in the mid 90s.

    And I know for sure that we got on just fine without it - and yet, I now can’t imagine how we possibly did. I use it every single day for so many things, work, news, leisure, communication, etc. I almost can’t remember life without it.

    Not saying that’s a good or a bad thing, but it’s weird to think about.

  • @SlothMama
    3•1 year ago

    I mean, not UK, but I use it hourly, at least for the hours I’m awake.