How You Use Technology

Thanks for responding to my survey about how you use technology. Twenty-five of you responded. Here is a summary of the results.

Eighty percent of you use email often when you are not in school, and nearly half of you have two personal email accounts that you use regularly. More than half of you use web-based email which is a really good thing for security purposes.

Forty percent of you have two or more computers at home. Desktop systems dominate (56%) but 28% have both desktop and notebook machines. By far, the vast majority run Windows XP (92%). Two people use the Mac OS. (Who's my buddy?)Internet Explorer is overwhelmingly the most used browser, but I'm glad to see almost 1/3 of you using Firefox, which is better than Firefox's current 20% market share. Unfortunately, about a quarter say they are using dial-up to access the internet.Four out of five of you shop the internet at least occasionally and about two-thirds of you use the internet for banking and/or bill-paying.

Again, thanks. I found some of this very enlightening!