Finland Times

 

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Fifty-one per cent of the people aged from 16 years to 89 years followed social network services, according to Statistics Finland.

 

The Statistics Finland in a report published on Thursday said that the figure was four percent higher compared to the previous year.

 

The report also said that 87 per cent of the internet users in 2014 were found to use the internet for online shopping and the use of social media, like blogs and chat groups is increasing.

 

This appears from Statistics Finland's survey on use of information and communications technology. Among the oldest age group of the survey, those aged 75 to 89, 28 per cent were internet users. The data for the survey were collected in April to August 2014.

 

The data showed that sixty-four per cent were online several times a day.

 

The share of the population that had made online purchases or placed online orders in the past three months grew by four percentage points to 48 per cent.

 

New users only came from the population aged over 55, as nearly all younger people already use the internet.

 

The share of the population that uses the internet several times per day increased in 2014 in all age groups. The population aged 25 to 34 are most commonly on the internet several times per day (over 90% of them). The share of the entire population aged 16 to 89 that use the internet several times per day grew by three percentage points to 64 per cent.

 

Tablet computers are quickly becoming widespread in Finland. Thirty per cent of households have a tablet. In 2013, 19 per cent of households had tablets. In 204, the share of Finns that use smart phones increased by ten percentage points from the previous year to 60 per cent.

 

An ever growing number of people in Finland shop online. In the past three months, 48 per cent of Finns had purchased or ordered something online. The share grew by four percentage points from the year before.

 

Since 2009, the share of persons that purchased something online in the past three months has grown nearly 1.5 fold.

 

The popularity of social network services has increased further in Finland. According to the survey, 51 per cent of the population aged 16 to 89 had followed social network services in the past three months. The share is four percentage points higher than in 2013.

 

Some Finns have adopted cloud services. In the past three months, 22 per cent of Finns had saved files on so-called cloud servers. The share grew by two percentage points from the year before.