Quick Stats About College Students and Technology
This kid...err guy, Ethan Kaplan, is 26 years old and he's already got a Masters from UCSB and is now Director of Technology for Warner Bros Records. He recently spoke to USCB students during which he asked a few impromptu survey questions. He writes...
"...an interesting thing regarding 'show of hands' surveys during lecture:"
- About 1/3 had a MySpace profile.
- Roughly 90% had FaceBook profiles.
- Five people, all guys had heard of digg.
- No one had heard of BoingBoing, Delcious, memorandum or NewsVine.
- About 15 had the Arctic Monkeys CD. None had paid for it.
- Only a few had actually bought music in the last month.
- About 20 had heard about the Sony DRM scandal