Maybe not a generation in the traditional sense, but at least a technological generation. I saw a tweet from a high school kid that I mentor (he's a senior) and he had retweeted someone else from his school saying "I voted for (so-and-so) for Prom King."
I'm not a social network or technology dinosaur by any means but the concept of tweeting to let everyone know who you voted for prom king blew my mind. It brought me back to thinking about how the only real social networks my friends and I used back in that same time were Livejournal and Myspace, and even then it was just mostly LJ. And nearly everything we were posting was text-based rather than GIF or image based. There just wasn't a similar platform in wide use by high school kids back in 2006, and now there is.
I don't claim to know which is better or not (since we nearly invariably think that our own days from "those were the days" tend to be superior), but it did catch me thinking about just how much has changed in the way that particularly high schoolers use and engage with the internet compared with not even 10 years ago.
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I am the source of the gap in my family. I send out invites by Facebook only now (logic being if people don't want to be contacted via FB then don't have a FB profile / don't friend me on it?), and my mom complains that I don't just call her and tell her when we're doing something.
Remember that time the Library of Congress decided that it had a mandate to maintain an indexed collection of every tweet ever?
Anyway for me it was the music. The kids and their Skrillex and their whumping.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
I keep seeing these articles recently about the Millenial generation, and every single one gets me super annoyed.
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"To truly live, one must first be born." ~ Evan [aX]
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That's us, right?
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
I believe so. Generational boundaries are always a little hazy, because people, you know, never stop having birth.
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"To truly live, one must first be born." ~ Evan [aX]
Paper Mario Social: The Safe Haven of GameFAQs. (Board 2000083)
Millenials and Generation Y are the same thing, which is us.
Basically, we're spoiled as hell and enjoy multitasking =P
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Well, there is a new accent of n00b language. It's called: Vet LUEser goes Foreign!-MegaSpy22
Those must be the pants of the gods!-Digitalpython