Did u know

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by admin in Did you Know

 
 
Generation Y-ers, defined as those born from 1982-2000 are a many named group. Also known as “Echo Boomers” (offspring of the Baby Boomers), the “Millennials”, the “Net Generation”, the “GenTech”,  the “Dot-com” generation, “Trophy kids”, and, very aptly “Generation Y Not”, they are the first native online population and it’s defines how they think, live and work.

 

• According to an NGO mobileyouth, there are currently 1.2 billion youth with cell-phones worldwide, spending rising in 2009 to $250 billion in the mobile market.
• Mixit has an international user base spanning 15 million plus* and, more than 12 million are South African. It’s also three times more popular than Facebook in South Africa.
• In Feb 2010, Facebook had over 400 million active users with 100 million accessing FB via their mobiles; approximately 45% of users are under 18.
• 75% of all teenagers in the US now have a mobile phone, while almost 35% of teenagers send over 100 text messages per day, one in three people text while driving and one in two talks on a mobile phone while driving!
• Charlie McDonnell is a 19 year old video blogger on YouTube – with 200,000 subscribers and more than 20 million hits overall, he is the third most subscribed to on the site.

Parents and educators bemoan this obsession with media technology believing they contribute to poor social skills and the degradation of both written and spoken language. You can be sure they won’t understand what the following texting language means at all!