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An oxymoron and a paradox in itself in the context of social media such as Facebook, especially when a user finds something amusing or interesting enough to share or post on his wall (which means the user LIKES what he put on his wall/feed), and everybody is apparently ignoring what he's been posting for the longest time, as if it never existed.
Joe (thinking to himself): Damn, is anybody even seeing what I'm posting and sharing on my wall? I've been sharing some pretty cool stuff and I've been liking (well not like an easy like whore that Urbandictionary is defining) what my friends have been sharing on their walls. Some friends they are. Where the hell is the reciprocity?! Buncha ingrates! How come it's as if they're ignoring me on purpose?! Do I even exist? Maybe they think I'm dead. Am I dead? Is this like the 6th Sense? Oh well, better stop doing this social media crap then, pretty pointless talking to myself online. Damn, now I'm doing it in real life.
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William Straus and Neil Howe's clustering of millennials based on birth years, the generational classification was referred to as Generation Y, and muddled the fair representation of those who experienced their adolescence and cognitive-development years in step with the nascent phase of home-based Internet access technology.
While often lumped together with millennials (as defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.
Gen Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (predecessors to social media) into today's digital age.
The millennial Generation represents Generation Z and were merely lumped with Generation Y people who were completely raised during the early emergence of home-based Internet access.
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William Straus and Neil Howe's clustering of millennials based on birth years, the generational classification was referred to as Generation Y, and muddled the fair representation of those who experienced their adolescence and cognitive-development years in step with the nascent phase of home-based Internet access technology.
While often lumped together with millennials (as defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.
Gen Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (predecessors to social media) into today's digital age.
Generation Y and Generation Z cannot be lumped together and be called Millennials; as those who said so were clueless about how the two generations were raised and how they developed their ways of thinking.
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Mapping out Generation Y's placement would put its members' formative and adolescent years through the late eighties until the millennial bug brouhaha of 2000. Generation Y represents the juniors of the MTV Generation (See entry), who by and large grew up influenced by the youth culture movement of the 80's and early 90's, further encouraged through a savvier approach by broadcast media (through film, TV, music, and literature) to promote talents, showbiz, and commercial ideas. The age of household Internet access in the 90's allowed Generation Y to initiate and sustain the convergence of broadcast media content with accessible information.
As Generation Y kids were introduced to the World Wide Web through basic dial-up Internet, so did the shaping of their lifestyles and approach to socialization. These were significantly influenced by online connectivity's relatively primitive Etiquette in technology and the inevitable results of self-discovery by the users who were interacting online. These formative years of Internet technology was coincidentally the formative years of Generation Y members. Online etiquette and protocols of social and legal interaction were yet to be fully established and formalized and it was during this period that much of the landscape of the Internet was influenced and shaped by how Generation Y used the Internet as a platform for communication.
Leave Generation Y alone, they don't belong with Generation Z brats.
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While often lumped together with millennials (as defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. As information technology and Internet connectivity may have easily established a cohort of sorts among Internet users, Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.
Generation Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (which could be considered the predecessors to social media) into the digital age of today; even as most Generation X members lacked the responsiveness or the interest to immediately adopt the connective facilities offered by the Internet.
Leave Generation Y alone, they don't belong with Generation Z brats.
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As Generation Y kids were introduced to the World Wide Web through basic dial-up Internet, so did the shaping of their lifestyles and approach to socialization. These were significantly influenced by online connectivity's relatively primitive Etiquette in technology and the inevitable results of self-discovery by the users who were interacting online. These formative years of Internet technology was coincidentally the formative years of Generation Y members. Online etiquette and protocols of social and legal interaction were yet to be fully established and formalized and it was during this period that much of the landscape of the Internet was influenced and shaped by how Generation Y used the Internet as a platform for communication.
Information accessibility for Generation Y, in the 90's, was largely based on the use of the physical library for books, archives, and offline databases. This involved the handling of voluminous documents and paperwork (from general encyclopedias to special book collections), a legacy of the tedious academic process passed on by past generations. As the use of the Internet garnered momentum among the young Generation Y members, the increasing use of online groups, forums; bulletin boards facilitated the exchange of more information and expanded the interactivity of so many of the young users in the community. The frequency of interaction ultimately led to the integration of media content and popular topics of discussion - Internet pop culture
I loved fiddling around MSDOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98 as a kid. I'm Generation Y. Millennials can't be lumped together.
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Are you serious bro?
An expression often used by WWE Wrestler Zack Ryder when commenting on a ridiculous situation, condition or event.
John Cena will turn heel, AYSB?!
The government isn't hiding anything from the general public, AYSB?!
BF3 isn't better or at least as good as COD4, AYSB?!