I was waiting for an airplane and I overheard a conversation about Social Networks. The group that was chatting (rather loudly) was in their early 20s.
A woman was talking about how much time she spent on Facebook and MySpace. She said that she never intends to spend more than a few minutes checking her friends’ status or updating her own … but inevitably ends up spending hours in front of her computer and not really accomplishing anything. The other 20 somethings agreed. “You just keep clicking and clicking and before you know it, half your day is gone.” The conversation ended with a resolve. “From now on, I am only going to check Facebook once a week and I am closing my MySpace account.”
This may be an isolated case, or maybe GenY is getting fed up with a culture that doesn’t interact except via computer.
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