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Oldies Are Kurt Cobain & Mobile Phones To Tell Time, Is This Really GEN-Y 2.0?

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Each year, since 1998, the administrators at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a cheat sheet for their professors on the incoming freshman class and fall 2010 is no different as the class of 2014 (born in 1992) gets ready to attend university.

This cheat sheet is called the Mindset List and its purpose is to tell professors (and any other faculty who would care to read) about the “cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.”

Initiated in 1998 by Tom McBride and Ron Nief, the Mindset List offers a unique and more importantly, a culturally aware look into young America. Or does it?

With the release of the list analyzing the class of 2014, what’s different?

Or for that matter, what would surprise the non-millennial? [Read more...]

August 23, 2010

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} Welcome to Generation Recession

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Image by Sasha H. Muradali. All Rights Reserved 2009.

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times in these cities to which we, Gen-Y, are living. Last week, I asked if the recession was good for Gen-Y. This week I would like to talk about the repercussions.

Enlightened or traumatized? That is the question.

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I read an article in the New York Times called “Generation OMG” –

In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later.

Insane isn’t it? [Read more...]

October 1, 2009

Gen-Y, America’s Dumbest Generation?

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Illustration by Francisco Caceres for TIME Magazine

Someone has been sipping the kool-aide and the Wallstreet Journal has lost their noodles.

No, I get it, I got the “nonverbal” in a so “verbal” “cue” that apparently, my generation is the dumbest on the planet. Not to mention, that some people, who take advice from the academics of 1959 (“when the world was a simpler place” – oh, the irony), think we are lacking a serious amount of socialization.

The generation that ushered in and invented social media, a combination [Read more...]

September 2, 2009

Is MTV forgetful of Gen-X & clueless of Gen-Y?

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TRL 200o via GoBritney

If video killed the radio star, then MTV killed the video with reality television and mindless fluff.

Their lease will be up in about two months and guess what folks? MTV isn’t renewing their top-shelf spot atop the streets in New York’s Times Square. The windows, that view, the chaos – it’s all finished. Done. Gone.

*shocker*

In a recent interview with John Norris, one of the most memorable MTV veejays, he seemed to think that TRL was “lame” and that the show was overrun by teeny boppers and new wave grunge artists who made crap music post-Nirvana. That, together with, the demise of the music video and the rise of reality television has killed off [Read more...]

August 27, 2009

Facebook killed the MySpace star and now it’s after the Tweeple

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{CLICK for musica – Facebook killed the MySpace star and now it’s after the Tweeple} 

Keep your friends close and your enemies on limited profile because Facebook sets motion to the death of Twitter….but Twitter isn’t dead, thank goodness, yet!

It’s okay to link your Facebook page to your Twitter account, but not the other way around.

I used to be an advocate of the “#fb” Selective Twitter Status application on Facebook which links my Twitter to my Facebook. Then the dumb application stopped working and after I tried about four times to contact the guy who created it with no such luck – I gave up.

And like I told @SteffanAntonas in a very thought provoking discussion about target audiences, after reading, “Status Culture – Public vs Private and Why It Matters,” I’m very glad.

My Selective Twitter breaking is probably the best thing to happen because [Read more...]

August 21, 2009

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} Hi, My name is Gen-Y, will you hire me?

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Image by Sasha H. Muradali. All Rights Reserved 2009.

Have you ever read Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist?

It’s a really interesting story about a shepherd boy who goes in search of his personal legend and lately I’ve been thinking about it a lot. I’m a Gen-Y you see, who is pretty much jobless and because of the recession it seems like I’m stuck in an endless spiral of confusion and complex whirlwinds I never imagined facing back in December 2008 when I was prepping to gradute.

I grew up with everyone telling me, ‘go to college, get a degree, get two in fact, work hard…you’ll land the job’ — well, a recession changes that now doesn’t it?

Do you ever sit down and wonder [Read more...]

July 23, 2009

Welcome to the Age of the Geek

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Reading is Sexy by Lily Garini via Flickr

Generation-Y aka the Millennial Generation may be more responsible for what you see, read and hear than you know or think.

Smarter, savvier, edgier and more aggressive [Read more...]

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