Artifact 1 blog

While I am not surprised that the use of the internet as the primary source is growing rapidly, I am very surprised that the use of television is not higher than it is. With televisions high technological advancements over the past decade with the introduction of high definition and now 3D, it is astounding that more people do not use television as their source. For myself personally I do fulfill most of my news watching duties on television and I believe that I will probably always use it most of the time instead of the internet.  With the way that the internet is rapidly advancing I may not have a choice.  At this pace the local news will be broadcast over the internet before we know it and it will be almost impossible to avoid having to watch the internet for all our news needs.  The statistic that says that 65 percent of people from the age of 18 to 29 use internet as their source of news is kind of surprising because this age group is the group of people that were born in the booming technological age so I am surprised that it is not more than 65 percent.  While 65 percent is a large portion of the people I still would think that it would be a lot more people because a lot of the young people in this age group are very good at using new technology so I would think it would be more like in the 80 percentile rather than the 65 percentile.  Probably the most surprising stat that I saw is that 14 percent of people that are the age of 65 or older get their news from the internet.  A lot of the senior citizens that I know ae not very good when it comes to computers and they barely even know how to turn one on let alone use one every day for their news.  When you realize that the internet was not around for more than half of most of these people's lives it is very surprising that they would just grap a new concept all of a sudden when they were never used to it before.  The senior citizens that I know are very stubborn and are very set in their ways from the old days and do not even want to attempt trying something that seems impossible for them to grasp.  So that 14 percent number really shocks me and I am really surprised that it is not at least under 10 percent because of the serious technological advancements that the people of the older generation refuse to learn to grasp.  Twitter is discussed in this article about how it is one of the newest ways to feed news.  I have not even attempted nor do I want to attempt to try twitter so I can understand why many of these senior citizens do not want to try new ways of watching their news.  They have been use to just popping on their television or grabbing their newspaper off their porch their whole lives and those two things are still very accessible so there really is no reason why they should change their ways.