Study: Internet Uses Unfamiliar With Terms
Study: Internet Uses Unfamiliar With Terms
Some amazing statistics from a Forbes on how most users of the Internet have never heard of rss or podcasting. Those of us who are up with the new technology need this kind of reminder from time to time.
Podcasting and RSS feeds may be the latest craze in high-tech circles but the general public is largely unfamiliar with the Internet terms.
A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project also finds that Internet users aren’t all that familiar with “phishing,” either.
Seventy percent of Internet users never heard of phishing or aren’t sure that it refers to e-mail scams that try to trick users into revealing sensitive information by masquerading as a legitimate bank or credit card issuer.
Eighty-seven percent are unfamiliar with podcasting, which lets everyday users distribute audio files over the Internet for playback any time on computers or digital music players.
And 91 percent do not know about Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, a technology chiefly used to pull summaries of new entries on news sites and Web journals.