Fresh Talk Poll - How old are we?

50 is the new 20, for Fresh Talk readers, that is. In fact, more than half of the respondents of the most recent Fresh Talk poll are older than 50 years old. Obviously the popular notion that more mature adults are lost in the online world is total bunk. We - speaking as a 49-year old soon to be 50 - are obviously the most savvy of all. From one dated Web site I found this backup data:

The average age of users is middle age (37-40) or older. The idea that the Net is used primarily by young teenagers or young people is a gross misconception that has been around almost since the start of the Internet. In fact, The tenth Georgia Tech demographic survey showed the average age of an Internet user at 37.6 years old. And this was an increase from 35.1 years old in the ninth survey. The surveys have shown an average age of Internet users of around than 35 years old since the surveys started. In October, 2000, the research firm Gartner Group found the average U.S. Internet user is 41 years old with an income of $65,000. According to a U.S. Government study released in 2002, A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet, Internet users in the United States from age 9 to 17 number 25.5 million while U.S. Internet users age 18 and over number 110.7 million--the younger group is outnumbered by almost five to one by the adults.


Fresh Talk poll results:



How old are you?
+50 19 (54%)

40 to 50 6 (17%)

30 to 40 5 (14%)

20 to 30 5 (14%)

below 20 0 (0%)

Votes so far: 35

Poll closed


For more updated research on Web users, check out this 2005 Pew/Internet study.