1. Seniors, Youth & Privacy Susannah Fox Associate Director Pew Internet Project March 9, 2006

2. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20062 Share of Americans online by age (age 12+) (Pew Internet: Jan-June 2005 combined data)

3. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20063 Share of Americans w/broadband at home (age 12+) (Pew Internet: Jan-June 2005 combined data)

4. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20064 Population Pyramid of the U.S., July 1, 2004 (Population Reference Bureau: men/women with boomers in red)

5. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20065 Population Pyramid of the U.S., July 1, 2020 (Population Reference Bureau: men/women with boomers in red)

6. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20066 Population Pyramid of the U.S., July 1, 2050 (Population Reference Bureau: men/women with boomers in red)

7. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20067 Internet activities: Teens vs. Boomers (Pew Internet: 2005) Online games (81% vs. 25%) Instant message (75% vs. 42%) Download music (51% vs. 14%) Read blogs (38% vs. 21%) Create a blog (19% vs. 9%)

8. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20068 Internet activities: Gen Y vs. Gen X vs. Boomers (Pew Internet: 2005) Travel reservations (50% vs. 72% vs. 64) Job research (44% vs. 59% vs. 54%) Bank online (38% vs. 50% vs. 37%)

9. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 20069 Protecting teens online (Pew Internet: Oct-Nov 2004) 73% of online families keep the computer in a public location in the home. 64% have rules about internet use. 62% of parents say they check up after their teens’ online activities (just 33% of teens say their parents check). 54% of online families use a filter.

10. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 200610 Teens & parents agree on some things (Pew Internet: Oct-Nov 2004) Eight out of ten parents and teens agree that kids are not as careful as they should be about the information they give out online. Six out of ten parents and teens agree that kids do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about. Overall, most parents believe that the internet is a good thing for their children.

11. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 200611 Percent of each group who have changed their online behavior to avoid software intrusions (Pew Internet: May 2005)

12. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 200612 Percent of each group who have taken action in the past two years to avoid ID theft (AARP: 2004 Multicultural Study)

13. Seniors, Youth & Privacy March 9, 200613 Sources Pew Internet Project: Demographics http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/2/topics.asp http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/2/topics.asp Pew Internet Project: Public Policy http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/8/topics.asp http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/8/topics.asp Population Reference Bureau http://www.prb.org/http://www.prb.org/ National Bureau on Economic Research http://nber.org/http://nber.org/ Bentley College: Aging by Design 2005 http://www.bentley.edu/events/agingbydesign2005/welcom e.cfm http://www.bentley.edu/events/agingbydesign2005/welcom e.cfm AARP: http://www.aarp.orghttp://www.aarp.org