The nine-month research report, entitled On the periphery? Understanding low and discontinued internet use amongst young people in Britain, reveals that those young people who rarely use the internet lack the skills or simply do not have online access.
Commissioned by the Nominet Trust and conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, the report says that
10 per cent of young people aged between 17 and 23 rarely use the internet, if at all.
It also found that some of those surveyed were embarrassed to admit that they did not understand how to use the internet properly and some were unable to use email.
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