76 percent of America's Internet users believe Internet good for society: Poll

A majority of Americans, 76 percent of them, reportedly believe that internet has been a good thing for society, according to a mega poll of how Americans use and feel about the Internet by Pew.

The poll that was released on the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's historic paper conceptualizing the World Wide Web concluded that 87 percent of Americans now use the internet, out of which, 46 percent of net users said that they would find it very hard or impossible to give it up.

Over the past two decades, Internet use has gone from geeky hobby to the norm (14 percent in 1995 vs. 87 percent in 2014), the TC reported.

While ethnic or gender divide in Internet use does not exist anymore, a generational and class gap is still prevalent.

While only 65 percent of people who earn less than 30,000 dollars a year use the Internet, those making 50,000 dollars or more a year are constant users.