The bar charts give information about three purposes of using the internet for residents in Australia, along with the percentage of each age group throughout the period shown.
It is clear that the majority of the internet’s purposes were occupied by emailing, and the lowest were for social media. In addition, most people over the age of 65 utilize online payment and compose email, while the highest in the age range of 18 to 25 use social networking websites.
In terms of different objectives on the internet, the proportion of people who use digital messaging took the leading position, with about 75%, followed by a purchase online above 50%. Additionally, the figure for online networks was the least popular, at below 50%.
In regard to the proportion of each age using various internet services, we can see that age makes online transactions and email share similar patterns; the highest figure is for retirees, followed by people between 40 and 60 years old, and the 60-65 age group, with about 80%, 78%, and 72% respectively. while the youngest generation occupied the lowest percentage, just over 60%. By contrast, with the cyberspace social platform, the younger the user, the higher the usage rate. More specifically, the majority of teenagers in Australia used social networking websites at just under 100%, quadrupling the lowest figure for the oldest age at approximately 25%.