Yet another “study” that has found out that kids these days would rather get their news online instead of from sitting in front of a television.
Yes folks yet again the Pew Research Center has released another incredible ground-breaking study about something we didn’t realize was happening to our children. It turns out that in 2010 65% of young people, under 30, have turned to getting their news from the big bad Internet. This is up from 37% from the previous year of 2009.
Of all 1,500 American adults surveyed, 41% say they get their national and international news from the Internet, up 17% from 2007. Sixty-six percent cite television — down from 74% — indicating the trend is spreading among other age groups.
Forty-eight percent of those ages 30 to 59 cite the Internet as their main news source, up from 32% in 2007, while television went down from 71% to 63%. Though the number of those in the 51 to 64 age group who consider television their main news source (71%) is about the same, those who turn to the Internet (34%) is nearly equal to the number who cite newspapers (38%). The amount of people 65 and older who get their news from the Internet has risen from 5% to 14%, but television remains the chief source for 79% of respondents.
via Yahoo!
Next up – children with cellphones have Facebook accounts.
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