Be prepared to be shocked – kids get their news online not TV

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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