Saturday, February 27, 2010

It's Texting, Social Networking and TV?

The Pew Research Center released a report this week titled Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. In terms of technology use, there is nothing earth shattering here: 18-29 year olds are more likely to text and tweet than other generations.

I think some of the more interesting information is about where Millennials get their news: 59% get most of their news from the Internet but 65% still get most of their news from television. While the survey asks about CNN and other news channels as sources of news, I wonder if many Millennials actually get most of their news from entertainment sources like The Daily Show. I wish Pew would have asked about that in their survey...