Teach your parents well......

Another interesting post to comment on this Sunday....Fred Wilson talking about what his kids do as predictors of New media directions - abridged here:

1) When they walk into a DVD store, they rarely walk out with a movie. It’s almost always the first season of a TV show they’ve heard is good.

2) They will play games whenever given the opportunity.

3) When we were without broadband internet for three days in the barrier reef, they were a little antsy but were able to stay on top of Facebook messages via my blackberry. When we got back to a broadband internet connection, they spent the afternoon happily entertained by the Internet for hours.

4) The only time they listen to radio is when we have it on in the car for short rides. If it’s a long ride, we almost always plug in the iPod and they’ll take turns DJ’ing.

5) They still read books the way we did as kids.

6) They love magazines and read all the fashion, cooking, and gossip magazines they can get their hands on.

7) They don’t seem particularly interested in newspapers.

Mine are slightly younger and male, but this is their behaviour:

1) No real TV vs Movie discrimination noticed, its more subject based.

2) And how...though they oscillate between favourite game types and mediums (Online, PC, DS) in any one week though.

3) Having been without internet for 10 days - but doing something else absorbing (skiing with friends) - they weren't much bothered at all, but happily got back to it when we got home

4) iPod DJIng - got that. Re radio, we listen to more - but thats because the BBC is so darned good compared to US commercial radio.

5) Ditto.

6) Ditto, though different subjects. And comics.

7) School makes them read the papers as a weekly "in the news" project, so its infradig...lets see what happens when that stops. They do read the sport and some other sections of the Sundays.

Re market lessons...I'd largely go along with Fred's analyisis, except:

- I think there is something in the Movie backcatalogue of the "if you liked that, you'll like this" arena.

- The alacrity with which the whole New Media thing was happily put aside for friends and outdoor fun was a real lesson. As an aside, I have noted previously that the use of all this internet media may be a result of over-protective parents, and as they spread their wings it may decline. Now I don't know whats driving the anxious adults, but if that reversed it could be interesting.