21% of Irish people have never used internet

jester77 · 14-12-2011 01:52PM #1

That's a fairly high figure, according to this report.

I find that hard to believe, let's see if boards agrees.

John Doe1 · 14-12-2011 01:54PM

Pensioners are considered people right so....

WindSock · 14-12-2011 01:54PM

Maude, eh?

Snakeblood · 14-12-2011 01:54PM

jester77 wrote: »

That's a fairly high figure, according to this report.

I find that hard to believe, let's see if boards agrees.

Everyone I know uses the internet, even the ones that can't control their bowels being one age or another.

Dotrel · 14-12-2011 01:55PM

In fairness I don't think wasting your life away on facebook/message boards or watching youtube etc should even count as "using" the internet either.

/guilty.

chin_grin · 14-12-2011 01:56PM

I heard exaggerations are up a million percent this year and 25% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Nothingbetter2d · 14-12-2011 01:56PM

this poll is flawed

in order to use it u need the internet :rolleyes:

c_man · 14-12-2011 01:57PM

jester77 wrote: »

I find that hard to believe, let's see if boards agrees.

I don't think it's outlandish. My auld pair will never use it. They appreciate it, ask me to show them stuff but the merest hint of getting them to do something themselves earns a "wouldn't be able for that carry on t'all"

mathepac · 14-12-2011 01:58PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

... in order to use it u need the internet :rolleyes:

Why?

Chuck Stone · 14-12-2011 01:58PM

In Soviet Russia internet uses you.

George Orwell. 1498.

AhSureTisGrand · 14-12-2011 01:59PM

I tried using the Internet once. It was at a party. Everybody there was on the Internet. Someone offered me some Internet. I didn't know what to do so I just went along with it. I'm not proud of myself, but I went on the Internet. I saw things no one should ever have to see. I did things that still haunt me. It took days for me to get fully off the Internet. It was a living hell.

Don't try it. Not even once.

chin_grin · 14-12-2011 01:59PM

mathepac wrote: »

Why?

Um. Is it an online poll?

--Kaiser-- · 14-12-2011 02:00PM

Who cares? I'd say a higher percentage have never been to a library

Seachmall · 14-12-2011 02:00PM

I suspect the number of "No" answers will easily take the lead.

Everyone's a comedian...

OT, I'd say many have they just don't know it. Particularly old people who use the email but don't know what the internet is.

Seachmall · 14-12-2011 02:02PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI

gcgirl · 14-12-2011 02:02PM

My mum and the step dad have never used a pc if they need anything they ask me to do it

chin_grin · 14-12-2011 02:05PM

gcgirl wrote: »

My mum and the step dad have never used a pc if they need anything they ask me to do it

They............they don't have the internet to think for them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo

Chuck Stone · 14-12-2011 02:05PM

Seachmall wrote: »

I suspect the number of "No" answers will easily take the lead.

Everyone's a comedian...

OT, I'd say many have they just don't know it. Particularly old people who use the email but don't know what the internet is.

I voted no to highlight the absurdity of the option. I, being easily amused, also found it entertaining.

He probably should have asked 'do you know anyone who doesn't use the internet' if he was looking for serious replies.

Shapey Fiend · 14-12-2011 02:05PM

When I started college 4 years ago a load of the other guys on my course didn't really know how to use a computer and they were 18 years old. Some people just aren't interested.

On a side note two of them also hadn't been to the cinema in over a decade. I asked them what the last thing they'd gone to see was the answers were Mission Impossible 1 and The Lion King (original release).

Skid · 14-12-2011 02:05PM

I have never used the Internet, and I never will.

You couldn't believe a word anyone says on it.

BULLER · 14-12-2011 02:06PM

In fairness, the poll seems about right to me. I've certainly never used this internet, sure I dont even know what it is!

EDIT: Ahhh... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxqfgIDvEY&feature=fvst

Why would anyone bother using that when you can just post on boards off their tablet?

Chuck Stone · 14-12-2011 02:07PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Um. Is it an online poll?

You might want to get your sarcasm-o-meter calibrated Sir.

headmaster · 14-12-2011 02:07PM

What %age of the population are babies and under 3/4 yrs of age? That alone would be near enough the figure you say never uses the internet. That would leave everyone else using it. What a ridiculous statistic, or, an idiotic attempt at getting attention. I'm not trying to insult, just showing how non thought out this is. To answer the poll question, one has to be on the internet, therefore 100% of respondants are on the internet

Noo · 14-12-2011 02:07PM

Ooh they have internet on computers now

chin_grin · 14-12-2011 02:09PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

You might want to get your sarcasm-o-meter calibrated Sir.

It's getting repaired. I'm useless without it!

im invisible · 14-12-2011 02:11PM

OP, you do know that Boards isnt representive of Ireland as a whole, right?

I'd expect there to be at least twice as many internet users here, compared to the general population

jaja321 · 14-12-2011 02:13PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0

TheBunk1 · 14-12-2011 02:15PM

"The problem with the Internet is that you can't always be sure if the information or quotations are authentic" ~ Abraham Lincoln

Ben Hadad · 14-12-2011 02:15PM

A poll about a poll. Great. Anyone want to start a poll about this poll?

Duggy747 · 14-12-2011 02:18PM

I'd believe it, it's not that rare you come across people with little to no experience of the web.

Especially those of an older generation.

mathepac · 14-12-2011 02:19PM

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

... It took days for me to get fully off the Internet. It was a living hell.

Don't try it. Not even once.

I'm worried now although I voted "No", being a wanna-be comedienne. What are the signs and symptoms? Can I take a screening test or should I see a medic? Are you fully recovered or is it just a day-at-a-time like marriage?

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