Fascinating:......61% of Millennials get political news from Facebook

[dixiegrrrrl]

60% of Baby Boomers get news from local TV,

Gen Xers, who bridge the age gap between Millennials (ages 18-33 at the time of the 2014 survey) and Baby Boomers (ages 50-68), also bridge the gap between these news sources. Roughly half (51%) of online Gen Xers get political and government news on Facebook in a given week and about half (46%) do so on local TV.

Roughly a quarter (24%) of Millennials who use Facebook say at least half of the posts they see on the site relate to government and politics, higher than both Gen Xers (18%) and Baby Boomers (16%) who use the social networking site.

http://www.journalism.org/2015/06/01/millennials-political-news/

[trumad]

1. Whatever works.

[olddots]

2. how convenient

Oy.

[Brickbat]

6. That's the point. It is convenient to use an aggregator that's managed by people you probably agree

with in some way. It's just like getting news from DU.

[Gman]

3. If they're seeing TPM, Raw Story, Addicting Info

Readers Supported News or other similar non-MSM media that's a good thing. I suspect they do. Now if they'll just vote.

[onecaliberal]

4. WHAT!!!

[Brickbat]

5. Well, not necessarily from Facebook.

They're getting links to news sources from their friends, about stories that they and their friends are interested in. Makes sense.

[NCTraveler]

7. In other news.

61% of Millennials are getting pre-screened news that is tailored to their liking. Nope, nothing can go wrong there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. plus there are being tracked a dozen ways to Sunday.

Every week there is a new story about how Facebook is monetizing its members.

[JonLP24]

15. So is DU, Free Republic, and that depends who they have on their friends list

I only use Facebook to maintain long distance communication but mostly it is doormat -- most of the news posted on there was from Forkboy but my dad's side of the family and my dad especially posts a lot of Republican nonsense and some people from my Army unit that I added because they asked but they weren't so much news stories but images and captions like my dad posting how long the flags were flown at half-mast for the Sandy Hook victims & the number of Marines which equaled the total one weekend and zero being the number of days or some horseshit and a former unit member posting an image of a military person with "We are the 1% (1 million active duty members -- 1% of the US population), we don't occupy (can't remember what probably buildings or something dismissing the Occupy Wall Sreeet) we occupy countries" wonderful -- what does that have to do with wealth inequality? Was my response but Facebook typically used for friends & relatives opens the door to a lot. Sure you can get rid of them if you don't like what they say but I stay off because of the horseshit being shoveled.

On edit -- who you "like" has a big part of where information is coming from as well. Facebook is a tool to be used a variety of ways

[fizzgig]

8. i'm millenial/gen x cusp

i read the local rag and the denver paper, watch the local news as well as cruise du and fb for news.

print media is dying and millenials often don't have television. i would not judge them too harshly on this.

[JonLP24]

14. I grew up part-time on the Rocky Mountain News

I hear they are no more but things are better now than being limited with a few sources and the television news (only PBS Newshour & Frontline outside of VICE on HBO are the only things worth paying attention to) so the access & variety is a good thing which DU or Facebook is the tool being used to collect it & share it in the same place. I think it shows why Millenials poll higher than other generations on topics such as climate change, GLBT rights, and Snowden.

[gollygee]

10. I get my political news from Facebook (GenXer)

Less from links from family and friends than from news outlets I "like" and then whose articles show up on my news feed. Many are progressive news outlets, but some are local.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Why do you think a lot of media

uses facebook

[Avalux]

12. Facebook? My kids are millenials, they hate facebook.

They DO like twitter and tumblr, and get news from those sources. Twitter especially, with the variety of news sources available.

[JonLP24]

13. I get my political news from DU

but mostly a variety of places on the Web that I run into that other DUers do as well so they post here and I do the same and I imagine Facebook is the same way. A collection of stories, links, and information shared by people that found it or shared it -- Like the Daily Show has the most informed viewers of the news stories but the idea "they get their news from The Daily Show" was limited as I imagine the core audience was lefty bloggers.