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[popscape]

So I had a job interview and the interviewer was in his late thirties? And he asked me if I used Facebook, and I said no, and his reply was "Hah, of course you do! Gen Y is the most wired generation, don't deny it!"

And then I came back and read the paper, and on the front page was this article. Am I the only person who can't stand this thing? Or

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[falsedichotomy]

You don't have Facebook either? *internet high-five* At my university, it's seen as such an anomaly. I don't know, I just don't see Facebook as the end-all, be-all means of communication. I like to think that it's possible to stay connected without Facebook. :)

Generation Alpha, really? D: It seems like recently, especially with the advent of rapid technological advances, that the time frames delineating "social change" are decreasing in size. Or maybe we're just more focused on looking at the microcosm now, so our definition of "social change" itself has altered. On a tangent, I remember reading somewhere about how the Myspace-age has become the Twitter-age or something along those lines.

Naming generations opens the door up for a new type of... discrimination? I don't think it'll ever get that far, but the underlying sense of division is there.
This is a really good point. It's really just another social construct, another category of division.

[popscape]

*returns high-five* Yeah, it's pretty much the same for me - when I meet people, one of the first questions is whether I have Facebook or not.

Myspace-age, Twitter-age... ashdkl, it's not really a big deal but it bothers me a lot. It's both of those things, but I think the latter makes more impact? Things like social networking sites makes it very easy for people focus on themselves more, and sometimes it makes the world so much smaller.

[yunsias]

Oh...so it's now Gen Alpha?

I don't know but I can already feel the divide between the different ages, at least in Singapore. I have friends just 4 years younger than me and I can already see the vast difference between their "generation" and me.

[popscape]

Yeah, I've met people a few years younger or older and I'm sometimes surprised at how different we are, especially with things like mobile phones and such. But I just don't think that all this labeling is necessary. D:

[vromescoit]

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