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Social and Technological Change
INTERNET USE GROWTH
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide, including nearly 80% of adult
Americans, with higher percentages of those who are younger, more afu-
ent, and better educated, use the Internet for all types of commercial, social,
recreational, communications, and information exchanges. The Internet
has become an essential element of life for government, industry, orga-
nizations, and individuals. As constructive Internet uses have enriched
American life dramatically, an equally dramatic increase has occurred in
the use of the Internet for illegal, illicit, and inappropriate purposes.
Susannah Fox of Pew’s Internet and American Life Project said in
2008, “Our research nds that many America ...