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Or so says the Guardian and Ofcom. Too many old, boring 25-40 year olds messing up their playground.

Channel 4 and OTX have recently provided some great insight into media use by UK young people.

Some top-line stats may surprise you about the average 12-24 year old (or not, if you are one):

• They personally own 8 devices (including MP3 player, PC, TV, DVD player, mobile phone, stereo, games console, and digital camera)
• They frequently conduct over 5 activities whilst watching TV
• 25% of them agree that “I’d rather stay at home than go on a holiday with no internet or phone access”
• A quarter of young people interviewed text or IM (instant message) friends they are physically with at the time
• They have on average 123 friends on their social network spaces
• And the first thing the majority of them do when they get home is turn on their PC

Having said that, TV is still the most popular form of media consumption, in spite of the fact that young people now spend more hours in total online.

Definitely a bit more substantial evidence than some 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley’s point of view.

Kindly forwarded by Sarah at @futurelabedu