6. Discussion
1) Elderly Internet Usage Behavior
According to the study, there is only minor portion of elderly who use the Internet in their daily lives, and the outcomes also revealed that the elderly by large have no experience in using the Internet at all. In this minority who uses the Internet can be divided into the elderly who have experience using the Internet and the novice users, which mostly are female. The study also shows that there are some relationships between elderly’ usage of the Internet
and their experiences and age in which inverses with the use of the Internet, the older the lesser of time spending with the Internet. As the outcomes delineated that most 70 years old and upper elderly rarely used the Internet and the usages went down to none when they turned 80 or older. This age factor was mentioned in a study conducted which found out that the access to the Internet is decreased by the passing age. had also supported this hypothesis in their study showing that 62 % of people who were in their 50-64 years old had been using the Internet but there were only 10 % of ones who were in their 65 years or older that used the Internet. Moreover, showed that most elderly who enjoyed using the Internet seemed to be those ones who were not too old. The Internet usage also has some relationships with both genders that numbers of female elderly who used the Internet was lower than males. The same result in genders and the Internet also showed in Ferro, and who found out that female had negative relationship with the access to the Internet, however, the outcome from this study showed that there were more female elderly who paid more intention in using the Internet. The future trend of the Internet usage illustrated that a vast majority of the elderly (72.4 %) showed no sign of interesting in using the Internet. One reason that caused the ignorance was the lack of skill and ability because they have never used the Internet before and did not know how to use it. Another reason was they had and got used to the ways of receiving information from other channels such as watching TV or reading a newspaper. One last reason that idle their eagerness of using the Internet was most elderly did not own a computer and this factor can directly reflect the elderly’ experience of learning, attitudes and their economic situation.