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Are Most Teens Web Geeks at Heart?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Continuing with the generational meme that I started this morning, I decided to post about an article that I came across on the Navigation Arts website. The article paints a portrait of what Graziella Jackson calls a “dot teen.” It describes Meghan as a 17 year old girl t ... Continue reading »

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  • talkingtojoey

    1 year ago

    I worked for about a year (2007-2008) in the Young Adult area of a public library. The big commodity in there was the internet computers. I was surprised to find that, aside from Myspace, Facebook and gaming websites, the kids (mostly 12-15 year olds) really didn't do much with the internet, let alone any of the "web 2.0" stuff, like Twitter, Friendfeed, etc.

    In my opinion, the teenagers use the internet a lot, but aren't necessarily very web-savvy. They don't seem to have very big attention spans; they just want to play games, chat and get on Myspace. Almost none of them knew what Twitter was when I mentioned it to them and they didn't really show much interest.

    Just looking at people's profiles on Twitter though, it does seem that its mostly used by adults, 21+. That's just a quick estimate though, I could be wrong.
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