Posts tagged Gen Y
Gen Y Reads Only 9 Minutes a Day
Feb 26th
…according to this article from Inter Press Service. But I suspect that doesn’t include reading IMs or txts.
Seduced by TV, the Internet, video games and text messaging, young people are famously reading less and less — 15-to 24-year-olds in the United States spend less than nine minutes a day reading for pleasure, according to 2008 U.S. Department of Labour statistics.
WWJGD?
Feb 26th
If you’ve never seen the superb 60 Minutes segment on Generation Y (who writhe about in the deepest, darkest depths of the postmodern swamp) titled “The ‘Millennials’ Are Coming,” it’s definitely worth checking out. And then you can watch this Gen-Y-made spoof of the 60 Minutes report, which poses the question that I’m sure is on many parents’ and employers’ minds: When it comes to Gen Y, what would Jane Goodall do?
Everything’s Amazing; Nobody’s Happy
Feb 24th
A friend sent me a link to this incredibly funny, insightful, and implicating video clip of stand-up comedian Louis CK appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien giving some examples of the extraordinary irony of our time: everything’s amazing and yet no one is happy. Check it out!!
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