Given is the graph illustrating the proportion of people from different age groups that used four means of communication in the UK in 2011.
It is immediately apparent that the figure for the Internet and mobile phones decreased significantly with growing age, while that of post and telephones witnessed an upward tendency. In addition, though people aged under 18 to 35 used the Internet the most as a way of communication, individuals over 36 preferred utilizing telephones.
Moving on to further details, for people under 18, the Internet was the most popular way to communicate, with 50% of teenagers using.
Next is mobile phones, with the data of 30%. The figures for telephones and post occupied the last two places with 18% and 5% respectively. The 18 – 35 years old group witnessed the same pattern, though with a slight decline of 10% in the number of Internet users. The percentages of telephones and postal delivery also went up mildly, by 2% and 5% subsequently.
For people aged 36 – 60, their most used method to communicate was telephones, with 35% of individuals using, 5% higher than the percentage of mobile phones’s users. For this age bracket, the popularity of the Internet fell steadily to last place with approximately 11% of users, 9% lower than post. People over 60 preferred using telephones to communicate, with the data of 46%. The figure for postal service came close with 35% of people using this traditional method. Lastly, the other methods, which are mobile phones and the Internet shared the last two places, with the data of 15% and 5% respectively.