<p>So what do you do to stay informed about news, trends, popular music, videos, you know, just in general of the world around you? Do you regularly read certain newspapers, magazines, blogs, and I guess social media plays a part too...</p>
<p>My friend sends me news links of what the hipsters are currently into.</p>
<p>I’m not big on social media but just school itself allows me to stay informed about new trends and whatnot(?).</p>
<p>I read the Economist, Washington Post, and CSIS. #debatelife</p>
<p>all in with chris hayes (lol watching now)</p>
<p>No Facebook, no Twitter, no high school, no radio, no movies, no newspapers, no magazines, no TV, no friends. I don’t even know what I waste so much time on.</p>
<p><em>gasp</em> no fb??? oh no</p>
<p>I have CNN as my homepage, and I follow a lot of news accounts on Twitter.</p>
<p>I don’t live under a rock??? News just comes to me. As long as you don’t spend your whole day indoors, you’ll stay in the know, ya know?</p>
<p>Download the CNN app. Also download the Reuters app, I really really like it to stay informed about foreign matters such as Syria or Egypt. Also download TedTalks, which helps you keep up with global innovations.</p>
<p>No social media besides Gmail (chat and stuff), but at least once a day I make sure to go on Google News. (I’m typing this on my Chromebook, so I guess you could say I’m a Google groupie :). )
I don’t really follow trends- I’m not exactly the trendiest person alive, and anything that’s useful to know usually trickles in from somewhere. I also couldn’t care less about celebrities and I find out about new movies and TV shows from the tops of cabs and sides of buses in NYC.</p>
<p>nytimes.com and The Economist</p>
<p>My parents are news junkies and I get round the clock updates from their smartphone notifications.</p>
<p>For news I have the CNN app. I check the news updates obsessively even if 'm not really interested. I mean, trends sort of just come in person. I don’t listen to music, and I am way behind on popular videos and movies. I am pretty connected to news-news, but not very aware of social news within my school or anything like that, which I guess is bad but I don’t care.</p>
<p>
BS. You don’t have to go outside to use the internet.</p>
<p>The Colbert Report haha</p>
<p>Time.com, New York Times, Twitter, Facebook, celebrity gossip sites, CNN (or whatever news station my mom turns to), and I listen to NPR sometimes in the car.</p>
<p>By far the easiest, most efficient, and quick way is to have a couple of widgets in your phone’s homescreens. I have the BBC World news widget, and the Google Currents widgets running all the time. Google Currents is simply brilliant because it scans numerous magazines of all different types and gives you trending articles and news. The best part is that it’s on your home screen if your phone, so you really don’t have to designate time to it, you find Outlook automatic as you’re sliding between your homescreens. If you want to know more about something, just touch the widget and you can read the article.
It’s that simple. This is probably the easiest way to keep up with the world.</p>
<p>New York Times news widget, Twitter for most social and cultural trends, word-of-mouth from my friends, and perusing academic or scientific journals every now and then.</p>
<p>I listen to NPR every day as I drive to school. When I used to go to work and take the train, I would read the Metro Newspaper every day. I also like the New York Times, etc. websites. My parents like to watch the news while we eat dinner so I watch as well.</p>
<p>As for cultural trends…I don’t really stay up to date and don’t really care.</p>