Here are the facts:

• There are more than 211 million Internet users in the United States, or 69.9 percent of the population. (InternetWorldStats.com, March 2007)
  
• There are more than 1 billion Internet users worldwide, or 16.9 percent of the world's population. That percentage has increased 208.7 percent since the year 2000. (InternetWorldStats.com, March 2007)
  
• Forty-five percent of U.S. Internet users "say the Internet helped them make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives." (Pew Internet and Life Project, 2006)
  
• "Nearly two-thirds of online Americans use the Internet for faith-related reasons. The 64 percent of Internet users who perform spiritual and religious activities online represent nearly 82 million Americans." (Pew Internet and Life Project, 2004)
  
• "The number of teenagers using the Internet has grown 24 percent in the past four years, and 87 percent of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online." (Pew Internet and Life Project, 2005)
  
• "In focus groups, teens described their new environment. To them, e-mail is increasingly seen as a tool for communicating with 'adults' such as teachers, institutions like schools, and as a way to convey lengthy and detailed information to large groups. Meanwhile, IM (instant messaging) is used for everyday conversations with multiple friends that range from casual to more serious and private exchanges." (Pew Internet and Life Project, 2005)
  
• "More than half (55 percent) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites" such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com. (Pew Internet and  American Life Project, 2007)
  
• Technorati.com (the Google search of blogs) now tracks more than 70 million weblogs and sees about 120,000 new weblogs created worldwide each day. (Technorati.com, April 2007)

Today, the Internet is impacting religion as Johannes Gutenberg did with his invention of movable type printing and the publication of the Gutenberg Bible in the 15th century....more>..