More Than Half of Millennials Use Phones for Video Calls, While Computer Use Drops

More than half of millennials aged 18-34 use their phones for video calling, up 10 percentage points year over year, said an NPD survey done last fall. “Video calling, posting and watching video are more common among Millennial smartphone users than among any other age group,” said analyst John Buffone, citing larger phone screens as a driver. As a result, millennials are leading the migration to larger data plans, said Buffone. Millennials’ computer use, though, is declining, said Buffone, negatively affecting the time they spend on Web browsing, email, shopping, Facebook, music, posting pictures or videos, navigation and Twitter.