Senior Citizens Increasingly Online

12/14/09 at 4:10 pm

Watch what you post to your Facebook page, kids; grandma and grandpa might be watching:

According to Nielsen, the number of seniors — those 65 or over — actively using the Internet increased more than 55% between November 2004 and November 2009, from 11.3 million to 17.5 million. Growth in the number of senior-aged women outpaced that of men by 6 percentage points …

Which sites are most popular with these elder active Internet users? Google Search, Windows Media Player and Facebook, according to the Nielsen survey.

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