Sharing Home PCs
Keeping in touch using a home PC can lead to tension in the home, with 90% of home PC users who use email to keep in touch saying they argue with other family members over who gets to use the PC.
Keeping in touch using a home PC can lead to tension in the home, with 90% of home PC users who use email to keep in touch saying they argue with other family members over who gets to use the PC.
The research, conducted by MORI on behalf of Packard Bell, shows three in five (62%) of those aged over 55 years who use their home PCs to keep in touch with others, email their children on a regular basis. This compares with only one in five (19%) 15 to 24 year olds who use their home PC in this way to keep in touch with their parents via email.
Q From the following, who do you keep in REGULAR contact with via email using your home PC? Which others? Base: All those who use email to keep in contact with friends/relatives (622)
| 160 | % |
|---|---|
| Friends | 85 |
| Work/colleagues | 45 |
| Sisters/brothers | 38 |
| Aunts/uncles/other relatives | 30 |
| Parents | 23 |
| Children | 19 |
| Girlfriend/boyfriend/partner | 15 |
| Grandchildren | 3 |
| Grandparents | 3 |
| Other | 1 |
Technical details
A nationally representative quota sample of 1,016 Home PC users, aged 15+ were interviewed throughout Great Britain on the MORI Omnibus, across approximately 192 sampling points. Interviews were carried out using CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing), face-to-face in respondents' homes between 27th May and 1st June 2004. The total sample surveyed (c.2,000 people) have been weighted to reflect the known national population profile.
