Generation M

You have much to learn from the overly concerned Katie Couric who spent her youth engaged in activities that really made a difference in the lives of others......

What I wonder about is with so many adults blogging from work, are adults, too, spending more time with media than "working"?

Wait a minute...the God-damn phone is ringing - some customer wants something....shit.....well, voice mail will pick up....I can pick up those calls from home later....

Off to the brand new MSN Search (far faster than Google) for more answers about this serious subject of time-wasted on meaningless mind-numbing activities......

Media Manipulating Multi-tasking Minors

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) --

The typical American schoolchild now spends more time engaged with media each week than the average adult spends working full time in that same period, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Released today in Washington, the report, "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-Olds," documents that children live more media-saturated lives than ever before, spending 6.5 hours a day engaged with TV, the Internet, digital games, radio, MP3 players and other media. The report notes that the most dramatic change from previous years is that so many children routinely multitask, thereby being exposed to the content and advertising of two or more media simultaneously. When that total exposure is taken into account, their average engagement with media each day is the equivalent of 8.5 hours a day, the report concluded.