The Internet pervades all aspects of Americans lives, from how we shop and buy, how we communicate, how we entertain ourselves, and how we seek out information to how we manage our personal relationships.

While today these digital activities are constrained to the home and the office, in the next several years consumers will increasingly rely on a ubiquitous Net that is instantaneously accessible on a wide variety of devices, from mobile phones to laptops to new form factors such as eReaders.In Forresters report, they segmented consumers by lifestage, looking at singles and couples, young families, older families, and older singles and couples. This lens provides some very interesting consumer insights into how technology behavior changes when people transition between different stages of their lives, says Forresters Jackie Anderson, who spent months sifting through the data. Which devices do they own, and how many of them, what are they buying and not buying, how they are using the Internet and even how theyve structured their digital home.Findings from the report include Young singles and couples are the most connected About half has send a picture from a cell phone in the past month, and a quarter has accessed the mobile Internet. Young families are heavy tech adopters 93 own a DVD player, 76 have some type of game console at home, and 39 have a home theater system. Older families are most connected They have on average 3 mobile phones at home, and more than 2 PCs. Older consumers spend most money online Theyve spend on average 560 dollar online in the past three months, and about one in five spent more than 1,000 online.