Why Johnny can't surf the web
Excuse me, but this is no laughing matter.
A study by the Nielsen Norman Group, an internationally recognized group of web-usability consultants, found that teens assigned some basic web tasks got them right 55% of the time, while grown-ups succeeded 66% of the time. Participants in the study were dispatched to search for data on sites ranging from MTV to the California DMV.
"The teens' poor performance is caused by three factors," says Jakob Nielsen, the author of the study. "Insufficient reading skills, less sophisticated research strategies and a dramatically lower patience level."
What's funny about an illiterate, unsophisticated generation of twitching kids?