While younger generations are being touted as “digital natives” and have the highest percentage of smartphone use, older Americans’ smartphone use has quadrupled since 2011.
Here are the percentage of U.S. adults who own the following devices:
A Pew Research Center survey shows that smartphone use among seniors has nearly quadrupled in the past five years.
In 2018, the AARP conducted a survey of seniors to see how they used their smartphones. Here’s what they found:
Your g-g-generation
Ever wonder how your generation got its name? They are generally terms used to describe a social group that stick.
For a while, the generation that fought in World War II was called the G.I. generation, but after Tom Brokaw’s best-selling book, “The Greatest Generation,” was released in 2000, the name stuck with those born between 1901 and 1927.
Some historians credit author Gertrude Stein as the first to name a whole generation. She wrote, “You are all a lost generation” in the epigram of Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, “The Sun Also Rises.”
Only time will tell what the next generations will be. Kids of today are being called iGen, Gen Z or centennials, but give it a few years to see what they call themselves.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Center for Generation Kinetics
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