Comments on: Are Most Teens Web Geeks at Heart? http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/04/are-most-teens-web-geeks-at-heart/ The Social Times covers news, analysis and insight pertaining to the social web. Learn how to brand yourself and your company via the social web. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:31:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Joey http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/04/are-most-teens-web-geeks-at-heart/#comment-1915 Joey Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:26:29 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=407#comment-1915 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. 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.

]]> By: Joey http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/04/are-most-teens-web-geeks-at-heart/#comment-5048 Joey Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:26:29 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=407#comment-5048 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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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. 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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