Internet skeptics: an analysis of intermittent users and net dropouts

The digital divide has often been discussed with respect to the two opposite sides of the spectrum: the "haves" and "have-nots". However there is a gray area which consist of two particular categories: a) Internet users who did use the Internet at one time and have since stopped, or b) the large number of Internet users who stopped using the Internet but then restarted using it. Such Internet users have not received much academic attention. Studies of the digital divide would be incomplete without an analysis of these categories. This study has been a descriptive investigation of the populace that is neither a digital-have or nor a digital-have-not.