The bar chart illustrates the proportion of people using 3 different types of media: radio, blogs and social networks to update news classified by 5 different age groups in 2011.
Overall, it is clear that radio was the most popular media from 18 years old onwards, whereas social media was popular among the 10-17 year old age group. Meanwhile, microblogging was the least popular of all three types of media used to updated daily news.
It can be seen that radio was the preferred means of updating news for people 18 years old and older. The number reached the highest peak, accounting for about 95% with 3 age groups: twenties (18-29), mature (30-49), middle-aged (50-64). However, the percentage of elderly people who love radio is lower than 10%. On the other hand, the popularity of radio among teenagers was second only to social networks, about 40%, nearly 45% lower than that of older ages.
There was a trend of using social networks to read daily news, occurring more among teenagers than other age groups, accounting for 80%. That percentage remained the same for adults ages 18-29. However, in this age group, the level of popularity was only ranked second after radio. And the older the age group, the more the percentage of lovers decreased. Although it was the least used medium, microblogging was still used by people aged 18-25 (around 25%) but only held less than 20% in the proportions of other groups in 2011.