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AP Reports Young People Use The Internet
prostoalex writes "You read a lot of stories about older generation either adopting or having troubles with Internet. But some people in this world cannot imagine their everyday life without Internet. The kids who went to school during the early days of the Web are now going to colleges and are demanding broadband, downloading music, sharing photos and posting to Web logs, Associated Press says. Most of the everyday tasks, like homework and job search, have migrated to the Web as well. According to the latest data, 188.5 million Americans and more than 1 billion people globally are online."
In Korea, only elderly young people use the internet.
"Young people use the internet" ==
"Old people yell 'get off my lawn!!'"
Why don't you embrace your slashbotness instead of living in a dreamworld?
whats next? a large news outlet discovers blogging
That's an appropriate use of the Obvious tag for once. Hang on a minute... Oopse, Wrong site...
Young people are now the savviest of the tech-savvy,...
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Yes, from my point of view, especially those who have failed to learn their native language
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
Bill? Is that you?
The dictionary called, it wants its definition of redundant back.
Internet uses young people!
They should really restart their monitor. That usually fixes it for me.
In all seriousness, can you even get the internets when you're old? I know my old people are still using Toltec Bead Messengers. Those guys can run like crazy (at least 22 hertz an hour), and you have a nice little belt when you're done checking your news-groups.
30-40% of Internet use at work is not work-related
./ at work...
You mean getting to your site from
redvsblue.com
::BANG!::
Sarge: Did you just shoot yourself in the foot?
Simmons: Yeah I do that sometimes now..
Time to make it thirteen, I guess.
"who went to school during the early days of the Web are now going to colleges and are demanding broadband, downloading music, sharing photos and posting to Web logs"
Then discovering, to their sorrow, that these services are not free, but were provided to them by their parents. Grow the hell up.
At least they're getting some fresh air and keeping fit by running away from the police every night ;)
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yea.. so u can outsource it to bangalore
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That's my exact thoughts when I first read this.
Let me suggest a few, AP.
Many Roadway Users Drive Automobiles
Sleepers Using Beds Now More Than Ever
Old People Not as Young as They Used to Be
Study Reveals Phone Usage Common Among Americans
http://xkcd.com/386/
>> I bet you'd struggle to find one in 50 who had ever even written a hello world in qbasic, one in 500 who could do the same in C
And what has that to do with a person's ability to use a computer as a teaching aid? If they're supposed to be teaching computing then sure; if they're just supposed to be *teaching*, though, and are using the computer as another tool, like exercise books and a blackboard are tools, then what does it matter? As long as they *can* use it, they should be fine.
In my day, we had to make our own blackboards before we could teach, then go out to the chalk cliffs and hew our own writing materials from the rock face. We had to cut down our own trees, shred them, soak the fibers in water, dry them and bind them if we wanted books. Then our ma and pa would beat us to death with a broken bottle and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
The down side was we never had any time to learn about the subjects we were meant to be teaching but we sure as hell understood how a blackboard worked.
Tell young'uns that today and they won't believe you.