It seems that most young people today have access to broadband Internet in their homes in one capacity or another. To be honest, I don’t understand how $50 is considered ‘too expensive’ for people to be spending on Internet. With all of the broadband ready media, software patching and other stuff, if it’s available, it just seems like a ‘no brainer’ to me.

Seven out of 10 teenagers and young adults are surfing the web with broadband connections, which have become a driving force behind the increasing amount of time they spend online, a media company said Friday.

A survey of 15 year olds to 22 year olds found 70 percent using high-speed Internet connections in the fourth quarter of 2004, an 11 percent increase over the third quarter, according to Bolt Inc., a New York media company that provides entertainment, chat, dating and other online services to teens and young adults.

Of those young people with broadband connections, 50 percent used a cable modem, 44 percent digital subscriber lines and 6 percent T1/T3 lines.