It is hard to think that 2006 has almost come and gone and well, things seem pretty much the same. But they aren’t.
As I wrapped up most of my Christmas Shopping last weekend (yes, feel free to hate me) I realized that society has changed so much over the last few years and they don’t even know it. Cell phones are now the norm instead of the exceptions, those awful Nextel phones are starting to go away becaue people are realizing they aren’t cool because they can walkie talkie instead of talk and teenagers wouldn’t be seen for the most part with a phone to their ear – they are far to busy text messaging. A study last week announced that teenagers are the least likely to email of most age groups. They acted like this was rocket science. To the rest of us, we know that when we were teenagers (the youngest of the Gen Y’ers are finishing up high school) we really had no reason to be on the email. We were with our friends every day and if we weren’t we were on the phone with them. But now, that seems to have taken a turn…
What I really noticed at the mall when I was shopping is the number of kids hanging out in the center of the mall texting other groups in the mall rather than talking to each other? It made me wonder – are we going to have a tail end of Generation Y that is lacking so many social skills because of text messaging that they will have problems in the workplace or in social settings where you, I don’t know, talk?
