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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEverything Americans Dislike About the Internet, in One Chart*
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/everything-americans-dislike-about-the-internet-in-one-chart/260086/
Jul 19 2012, 3:48 PM ET 34
*Charts are not one of the things Americans dislike about the Internet.
There is much to love about the Internet. But there is much, as well, to dislike -- and/or to be annoyed by, and/or to resent, and/or to mistrust. In late June, the Q&A community Mancx decided to put numbers to those Internet-borne vexations. The firm conducted a survey of 1,900 American adults -- adults who self-identified, it's worth noting, as people who specifically search for information on the Internet. A group full of shoppers and cat-picture-seekers might have yielded different results.
Per Mancx's numbers, however, the Internet as an information source leaves a lot to be desired. A whopping 98 percent of respondents don't fully trust the information available on it. Which is a good thing, overall -- skepticism! -- except that 94 percent of respondents also noted the many negative effects that the Internet's bad intel can have. They also noted the potential to get a computer virus from Internet wanderings (63 percent), the multiplicity of ads they were forced to encounter (59 percent), the information that was bad specifically because it was outdated (56 percent), the information that was bad specifically because it was self-promotional (53 percent), the encountering of unfamiliar forums and spaces (45 percent), the potential to damage one's reputation via those forums and spaces (36 percent), the potential to get fired because of Internet-based tools (14 percent), and the compromise the Internet can pose to marriages and other relationships (9 percent).
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Everything Americans Dislike About the Internet, in One Chart* (Original Post)
SoCalDem
Jul 2012
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eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)1. Where's the column for "won't shut up about my tax returns" ?
I would think that should be at least 1%.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)2. And where is "dropped connection"
That's the only problem I have with it, when my ISP or router goes momentarily offline.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)5. My cable modem is doing that a lot, today.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)3. And where is spam e-mail? That's
my only complaint and a very minor one. I don't identify at all with any of the complaints on the chart. I think it's phony.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)4. Where's the "NOT ENOUGH PORN" option?