What are the social effects?

Question

What are the sociological effects of being a member of Generation I or The Net Generation?

Is there an extreme difference between them and Gen Y who saw the rise of the internet in their early to mid teens?

Does the net generation share the distrust of government and the general pessimistic outlook for the future of humanity that is considered to characterize gens X and Y?

Answer 1

I just happened to browse some of your questions, The Vet, and I found this question rather interesting.

Here's what I found from a recent book by Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa:

- 97% own a computer

- 94% own a cell phone

- 76% use Instant Messaging.

- 15% of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7 days a week

- 34% use websites as their primary source of news

- 28% author a blog and 44% read blogs

- 49% download music using peer-to-peer file sharing

- 75% of college students have a Facebook account

- 60% own some type of portable music and/or video device such as an iPod.

(It doesn't stop here. The list will go on until Nanotechnology will become a lifestyle...)

By that survey alone, you can already see the sociological effects of the "Net Generation".    

Pretty much convincing, eh? But the truth is, the Net Generation focuses on the activity, not the specific technology, that enables them to do it. It's not text messaging, instant messaging and e-mailing. It's talking, collaborating and engaging. It is the largest in American history -- over 100 million and counting -- and its intuitive use of technology is quickly changing how teachers teach and workplaces work.

Recent demographic and related research endows members of X and Y generations with particular attitudinal and behavioral characteristics. There are a number of lifestyle as well as career characteristics. Generation X looks more to a series of work-related experiences interspersed with ‘lifestyle’ events such as cross-cultural learnings. Generation Y employees begin and may stay with part-time employment. Generation Y sees the multi-scheduling of personal priorities and work experience as the expected state-of-affairs over a working life.

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Answer 2

Sorry I can't answer, I a baby boomer. I thought there things would not come about in my life time.