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My essential question for this paragraph is "In what ways does the internet help people with their everyday activities?"

"According to our May 2010 survey, 78% of American adult internet users use the internet on an average day. Here are some of the things they do on a typical day. Use the internet-78%, send or read email-62%, use search engine to find information-49%, get news-43%, just for fun-38%, social networking-38%, check the weather-34%."

This quote connects with my essential question because it tells us exactly what it is that the internet helps with. The quote contains types of activities with a percentage of people that use the internet for that specific activity. The biggest percentage was general internet usage of all people with 78% and the biggest specific activity was to send or view emails at 62%(pew-internet). The quote proves that the internet is being used in a myriad of ways.       "45% of Internet users who ever get the news get it both online and offline. Of that group, 22% access news more often online; 71% get news more often offline from places like newspapers, radio and TV. 27% of Internet users who ever purchase tickets do so both online and offline. Of those 38% buy tickets more often online; 57% buy them more often by phone, mail, or in person 26% of Internet users who ever do banking or pay bills do so both online and offline. Of those, 34% do it more often online; 54% do it more often in offline. This quote connects with my essential question because it lists three of the most internet uses and they give a percentage of how many people do that activity online vs offline. Since this quote is a few years old, its interesting to see how things have changed since then. Now the internet has a higher percentage in each activity. That shows that the internet use is increasing.  "Some 40% of Internet users who get the news online say they log on daily, and a total of 70% do that at least several times a week. Some 25% of the online weather bugs will check weather daily, and 55% in all will check weather at least several times a week. Some 20% of online sports fans check sports scores daily, and 61% at least several times a week." This last quote connects with my essential question because it talks about how much of the internet users go on the internet everyday. According to the quote, a total of 70% of internet users log on daily several times a week. That is a huge number of people that go on the internet every single day of the week. All of these quotes relate and help prove my point that people are using the internet and that the internet is changing the way people live their everyday lives. "Trend data." www.pewinternet.org. www.pewinternet.org, May 2010. Web. 4 Apr 2011. <http://www.pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Trend-Data/Online-Activities-Daily.aspx>. Fallows, Deborah. "The internet and daily life." www.ischool.utexas.edu. www.pewinternet.org, aug 11 2004. Web. march 20 2011. <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385e/readings/PIP_Internet_and_Daily_Life.pdf>. Fallows, Deborah. "The internet and daily life." www.ischool.utexas.edu. www.pewinternet.org, aug 11 2004. Web. march 20 2011. <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385e/readings/PIP_Internet_and_Daily_Life.pdf>.