Generation Us and Them.
Us and Them. The digital divide. The generation gap. The age gap. A sign of our times. The Net Generation. Generation Y. It has always been that way – different generations have gotten different labels. Now with the widespread use of social media (although, in reality the statistic is that only 23 percent of the world’s population has access to the Internet) there is a lot of talk about this notion of “Generation Me” – a narcissistic, self-centered generation. We used to talk about the Hippies and then the Yuppies (both baby boomers), Generation X and Generation Y and now I think we’ve reverted to talking about the “net” generation. (more…)