The bar chart illustrates the percentage of people aged from 10 to above 65 years old using three different media means, namely micro blogging, radio, and social networks, to get news updates in an unnamed country in 2011.
In general, most of the citizens receiving news were from radios excluding the young from 10 to 17, while micro blogging was the least favorite means to get news from all ages in 2011, and social networks had a moderate number of users in age groups.
In terms of the ten-to-seventeenth-year-old people, the percentage of the young between 10 and 17 updated news from social networks was significant with 80 percent, which was also the most prevailing news approach, while there was 40 percent of people getting news from radio. In contrast, radio was the favorite means of young adults(18-29) to get daily news, which was over 90 percent, and this age group had a similar figure for users updating news from social networks. The percentage of the young getting news was around 20 percent.
Regarding the remaining groups, there was a dominant number of adults and seniors keeping up with news by radio, around 90 percent. Meanwhile, social networks were the second favorite means of getting news in the remaining age groups, which were 40 percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent in three groups respectively. Micro blogging had been the least common means of getting news in all age groups, especially the above 65 people with a neglectable number under 10 percent.