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I'm curious as to how old you are. This is not a slam or being patronizing; I'm looking to add a data point. I'm in my 50s and I haven't subscribed to a newspa
by commieneko 15y ago
I'm curious as to how old you are. This is not a slam or being patronizing; I'm looking to add a data point.
I'm in my 50s and I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in 10 years. Most of the young people I know, in their 20s do not read physical newspapers and many of them don't watch broadcast television. Newspapers are fast dying out, and TV stations are starting to sweat. (I've worked in and out of broadcast TV for the last 15 years or so.) Demographics are defiantly skewing to older people, and even those are dropping.
They don't print photos at home or at photoshops. They look at them on their computers or phones. These days the only time I ever print a photo is for my 96 year old father; he has vision problems looking at screens. Until recently he was perfectly happy to look at photos on his desktop PC. In fact a major project I did for him was to scan in boxes and boxes of old photos. (Many of which I've recently had to print out again into books.)
Now I do know lots of people, guys mostly, who have wood shops or car repair tools. I'm not really talking about technical people. Mostly guys in their 20s - 50s. And when I go to the hobby stores these days I see all sorts of interesting "making" stuff aimed at women. One company makes a CNC paper cutting machine that is very popular with scrap bookers. They have recently expanded into a machine that creates elaborate cake decorating layer. And some of the polymer clay craft systems are very suggestive.
People have always been makers, that's part of what defines people. One of the advantages to making is that you can make whatever you want. If you can make it.
- URSpider94 15y agoI'm in my mid-30's ... and no, I don't subscribe to a newspaper either, but lots of people still do. And, as you mention, even if one doesn't subscribe, the most likely work-around is to view on one's phone/computer, rather than to print a copy at home.