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Youth Spend More Time on Web Than TV
ChopsMIDI writes "According to a survey of 2,618 people, aged 13 to 24, teenagers and young adults spend more time on the Internet than watching television, indicating a shift in media consumption for a demographic prized by advertisers. On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail, compared with almost 14 hours spent watching television and 12 hours listening to the radio."
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Only 17 hours a week? I think they need to survey more slashdotters.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail ..."
...? Kids today!
What -- reading and sending email isn't "time online"
-kgj
amateurs! more like seventy hours a week!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
all my nephew does is play flash games like "spank the monkey".
I spend a lot of time downloading TV programmes, so what group does that count as?
Will the future generations be more literate since they spend all of their time reading instead of watching TV? Maybe it will make it worse since 3v3ry7h1ng 15 5p3ll3d l1k3 7h15.
Sound waves should be free!
95% of those surveyed only spent a couple of hours a week tops but it is alleged that a few Slashdotters bumped that mean right up
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
mmporgs are interactive! You have to keep clicking on the Ugly Rat-thing to kill it, before going on to kill something else. That's as interactive as it gets.
That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
How is Slashdot any different than a MMORPG? You build imaginary and real status and communicate with others. There's even downtime at slashdot (I have to wait between comment posts).
That said, flash is evil! EVIL!
And so's the cat.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Not to mention friend lists and people constantly bitching about the administration...
I could go on, but I think I have made my point.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Which inevitably leads to someone walking into the room, asking "What are you watching?", and receiving a confused "huh? I don't know..." in return.
Well hmm...
and which media has easier access to porn?
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...these little fuckers are going to start coming out of womb with flash plug-ins installed.
So, what, is this our generation's "When I was YOUR age" event?
Previous: "When I was YOUR age, sonny, we used to go outside and play baseball out by the sandlot! Not all this TV watching crap you kids today do..."
Today: "When I was YOUR age, sonny, we used to watch TV all day on the couch! Not all this new-fangled 'internet' crap you kids today do..."
Future: "When I was YOUR age, sonny, we used to log onto the internet all the time on the computer! Not this new-fangled starship crap you kids today do..."
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
I spend 17 hours a day on the internet...
If television offered free porn to kids who are smart enough to admit to being over 18, television might start being as important is the web is to today's youth :)
Kids today!
... we had to compose our emails offline using punched cards, and then submit the stack to a data console operator for 300 baud transmission to the mainframe!
Why, when I was their age
-kgj
You'd think, but judging by what I see teenagers doing on the Internet at the local library the most they do is play awful flash games and send IM to each other. i.e.:
sexy_babe_6969_imsogreat_15_really_long_hotmail_ad address_are_cool_65372_omg_yay@hotmail.com says:
omg! wtf??!?!!?!!?
One of my housemates has a habit of leaving the TV on to provide background noise. The strange thing is that he will turn the sound down and sit in a different room, where he can't see the screen. Apparently he finds the whine of a 50Hz CRT soothing
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it's because anything you watch on tv you can download off of the internet anyway. and you can watch it at your leisure too. plus, we're a generation of high-tech pirates. we don't need any of this tv crap. it slows down our ships.
I'm against picketing but I don't know how to show it.
TEEN: Mom, I'm infected. I think it's a virus.
MOM: Oh dear, I didn't even know you were doing it, and besides I thought we agreed you'd use protection.
TEEN: I did use protection, my definitions must be out of date.
Because porn isn't scrambled on the internet.
Yes, if there were a page that somehow combined this and this, that page would almost perfectly represent the class of sites that the average teenager visits.
...Children.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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hehe SLASHDOT.ORG yes you to can become a digital activest in your own home only $5 a month hehe
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Would porn count as Education or Shopping?
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