"HIV over 50: Get Educated, Get Tested!"
By Deb LeBel
We often hear that only young people are spending time online, but data shows that more and more people over 50 are also spending time online. The Pew Internet & American Life Project
provides a picture of how people aged 50 and older are using new media and how they use it to find health information:
- 45% of 70-75 year olds are online
– and over the past three years they've had the biggest increase of any age group, and - 54% of 50-64 year olds look for specific medical treatment information online
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From ChangeWave.com
, we know that:
- “Baby Boomers” – people age 45-63 – now spend more time in non-work related activities online (12.9 hr/wk) than they do watching TV (11.8 hr/wk)
, - 57% of Boomers have LinkedIn profiles – but, more surprisingly, 55% have Facebook profiles
, and - The latest Facebook statistics reveal that there was a 513% growth in users age 55+ over the past six months alone. And, during that same six months, the percentage of total Facebook users age 24 and under declined from 54.3% to 34.9%
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