In Oz, everyone over 25 must be file sharing
p2pnet news view P2P:- Most people walk through the streets observing life, nature and each other.
Economists walk through the same streets noting the number of vehicles of a certain type, the frequency of recurring colours on womens clothes, and the numbers of people that are taller than six feet. We count. A lot.
So sometimes we see evolving trends. Which is what most people expect economists to do.
Today, I found a new Trend.
Young people are leaving the Internet in droves and being replaced by the grandparents.
According to Statistics from the Whirlpool Internet Stats, Growth is strongest in the over fifties group, whilst 18-to 21’ers are either losing interest due to more connection options on mobile phones or becoming information overloaded.
With three billion mobile phones in use, I’m willing to bet it’s the former.
In the early ’60’s I remember that my parents preferred the radio shows that they had grown familiar with to the new fangled Television programming.
Although that could have been because in the sixties, TV was a 5:00 pm to 10 pm event.
This is indicative of a trend that we at Perceptric have noticed.
The Internet is about Content.
Everyone thinks ‘Content is King’.
For the younger generation, social networking, now adequately represented via mobile access is king.
The last six years indicate that that the 26-30’s are fairly constant, but the interesting statistic is that the rate of growth appears to grow with age.
So content is still king, but only if you’re over 25.
The aggregate age is increasing approximately 1.5 years per decade. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (32010DO001_200806 Population by Age and Sex, Australian States and Territories, Jun 2008), as a acountry we are growing older with the average age increasing by 1.5 years per decade.
I recently wrote an article saying statistics show 57% of Australian internet users were file sharers.
If we accept the above premise that young people are more interested in Social Networking than accessing the Internet, then who’s watching all the old TV programs via P2P over the Internet ?
Tom Koltai – p2pnet
[Koltai is an economist in Sydney Australia. He's been online for 26 years, has run several ISPs and, "lobbied governments in four countries to prevent Internet restrictive usage legislation from being enacted". He says he's a strong believer in P2P, "as being a technological requirement to fully exploit the convergence of telephony with computers and remove the last barriers to human communication and interaction".]
February , 2009
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February 26th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Could you PLEASE provide links to your sources if you post stuff like this? What is it with this site’s reluctance to post outbound links? This *is* the internet, nothing wrong with a hyperlink now and then. Kthxbai.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Is Google broken ?
After all , this IS the internet.
l8r
February 28th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
@ dreddsnik: I’m just asking for a link to those whirlpool internet stats, not for a snide remark. I’ve been looking around on whirlpool.net.au (which I suppose is the source of the numbers mentioned above, although even that is not clear) and these stats are not readily available or easily findable on any subsection of their site. If you’ve got a direct link, I would be happy to get it. And I repeat my complaint, this site is as bad as techdirt.com by constantly avoiding outbound links. Thanks for nothing.
February 28th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
You’re very welcome