Adults Over 65 Showed Huge Tech Increase In Last Decade

The chart above is from the Pew Research Center. They questioned 1,502 adults nationwide between January 25th and February 8th of 2021, and the survey had a 2.9 point margin of error.

It shows that Americans over 65 years old are using technology more. There has been a huge rise in use in the last decade. The number owning a smart phone rose from 13% to 61%. The number using social media rose from 11% to 45%. And the number owning a tablet computer rose from virtually none to about 44%.