Are Parents More Internet Savvy Than Teens?
from the not-really dept
The headline about a new study concerning how parents and teenagers do things on the web suggests that, contrary to popular belief, parents are more tech savvy than their teenaged children. The details, however, don't actually say that. What the study does show, is that teens tend to get bored and give up on poorly designed websites, while parents tend to take it slow and force themselves to go through the whole thing. That doesn't sound like internet-savvy -- that just sounds like teenagers have a shorter attention spam and that they've learned it's not worth wasting time on badly designed websites (which might actually suggest they're more internet savvy). That doesn't make for as good a headline though.
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Internet and Epidemiology
Even the most rabid free-market ideologue will, I think, agree that restrictions on tobacco advertising toward children is a good thing. The next step could be restrictions on advertising of fattening foods, given that the food industry has turned so many of us into pigs that drain vast health care resources and negatively impact the economy.
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just talking about this
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They are the last generation with minds unpolluted by post-american-spirit-propaganda and while they made less wealth for themselves than their parents, the infrastructure for the current generation makes it impossible for them to acquire the skills needed to rank as high as their parents did when we compare skills accross generations or the world.
current news has http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/students.amendment.ap/index.html .. but speak to any interviewer or school counselor. You may laugh at me using the word propaganda, but when you hear these people use it, you might get a little freightened.
After all, when the current trends point us towards a future as shown here http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 you, as a kid, might just infer that there's no point in being savy.
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Rather, maybe there's no point in learning how to spell "frightened" or "savvy" or why punctuation may have been invented.
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ahh Nielson
It amazes me to think Nielson was making really ugly pages that can't validate to the standards they adhere to, probably since I was eating plastiscene at playgroup.
http://www.nngroup.com/
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.nngroup.co m/
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Congratulations
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Just another cycle
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