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New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day
An anonymous reader writes "The amount of time youngsters are spending on the web has ballooned to exceed the average adult's full working week, according to a new study. A few years ago, the same researchers thought that teens and tweens were consuming about as much media as possible in the hours available. But now they've have found a way to pack in even more. Young people now devote an average of seven hours and 38 minutes to daily media use, or about 53 hours a week according to Kaiser Family Foundation findings released today."
well I'm 20 and for most of the people i know thats a underestimation.
Everyone has FB/twitter on their phones with basic www access. I don't buy a newspaper unless they are giving away a free shirt or something, I check the news on my phone and sometimes pay the 15c an article during the break/commute (honestly, the headings are enough most of the time).
My job description involves the internet mainly email, a voIP setup we use for phoning people and an online database. My phone has an ebook that i use sometimes (but i find it difficult to deditate a decent amount of time to just reading a book, especially with my phone buzzing status updates and messages). I only go to my local libary to leech the free wireless access (like everyone else there).
I go home and turn on my laptop and stream TV shows onto my plasma while reading slashdot/BBC/forums, shows very often not on local TV (curb your enthusiasm, for one). There is not a moment i am not the internet. It's always in my pocket.
This site needs to include UBB code or WYSIWYG, i spend 10 minutes trying to get the formatting right with HTML.
Multitasking is not examined in TFS.
Or maybe it does, I'm too lazy.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Funny and Insightful mod option needed.