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Do you think social media has altered the way younger generations communicate?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:13 am
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:13 am
I'm just sitting in my office when this younger person comes up and just starts telling me a rundown of their life. Like a series of status updates I didn't ask for. Is this a symptom of social media where you have to let everyone know what's going on in your life?
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Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:15 am to RoosterCogburn585
Nah
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:15 am to RoosterCogburn585
This is the most rhetorical question I have ever seen.
Also congrats on framing a story you want to tell in the form of a question.
Also congrats on framing a story you want to tell in the form of a question.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:16 am to RoosterCogburn585
Their? Was it a he or she? Singular with singular.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:17 am to RoosterCogburn585
No moreso than text messages, cell phones, pagers and telephones before them altered communication. All of those pieces of tech fundamentally changed the way people communicated once teens and young adults began to use them.
Same with smart phones and social media once they moved to being apps and mobile web/app based.
Just how we work.
Same with smart phones and social media once they moved to being apps and mobile web/app based.
Just how we work.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:17 am to RoosterCogburn585
I’m calling bullshite. No millennial is already up at 6:13 telling you stories. They haven’t even woken up yet or ordered their double esspresso mocha latte swirl with soy milk.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:20 am to RoosterCogburn585
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I'm just sitting in my office when this younger person comes up and just starts telling me a rundown of their life. Like a series of status updates I didn't ask for.
It has been happening since humans could talk.
Now if he typed it out and gave it to you on paper then I would say yes, but humans talking about useless things is part of being a human.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:20 am to RoosterCogburn585
I’ll mail you a postcard from my beach house.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:23 am to RoosterCogburn585
Just be grateful they decided to acknowledge your old arse as they come for your job. Old man.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:23 am to RoosterCogburn585
Yep, no social skills
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:25 am to RoosterCogburn585
I thought the narrative from old people was the social media made millennials antisocial in the real world.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:32 am to RoosterCogburn585
Also...Aren’t you basically doing the same thing?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:38 am to RoosterCogburn585
What's social media? 
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:48 am to RoosterCogburn585
Social Media hasn’t changed the way young people communicate so much as texting has.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:53 am to RoosterCogburn585
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Do you think social media has altered the way younger generations communicate?
This reads like an essay prompt. Are you trying to get us to do your homework for you?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:53 am to RoosterCogburn585
Yep, but so did the telephone and so did email, and so will the next technology
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:58 am to RoosterCogburn585
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I'm just sitting in my office when this younger person comes up and just starts telling me a rundown of their life. Li
That kid is going to be your boss one day.
If you've got a young millennials at work at 6 am on a Monday morning and socializing with people who have offices, he is going to be running that place one day.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 6:58 am to RoosterCogburn585
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I'm just sitting in my office when this younger person comes up and just starts telling me a rundown of their life. Like a series of status updates I didn't ask for. Is this a symptom of social media where you have to let everyone know what's going on in your life?
Baby boomers do the same thing.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 7:04 am to RoosterCogburn585
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Yep, but so did the telephone and so did email, and so will the next technology
Yup. People have been working 40/50/60 hour work weeks since WWII, right?
Since WWII we have infinitely increased productivity, efficiency, mobile office capabilities, etc.. and yet we still require 50 hour work weeks in a fricking office somewhere with max 2 weeks vacation for many professions that don't need that.
At some point we need to reshuffle how we handle the "standard work week". Either go to 3 day weekends, or allow more flexibility in hours. This is one of the things I think the next generation is going to usher into the workplace. Social Media and the possibility of being available and able to work anywhere on the planet 24/7 is making 50 hrs a week in an office obsolete.
The old Boomers have this jaded business perception that unless you're sitting in your office at 8:30 at night neglecting your family with your sleeves rolled up smoking a cigarette you aren't working hard. It blows my mind when I meet guys like that.
This post was edited on 12/4/17 at 7:06 am
Posted on 12/4/17 at 7:06 am to RoosterCogburn585
There is no such thing as a "millennial". It's a made up term for lazy thinkers who overgeneralize and like it that way.
It's also useful for the motivational speaker circuit to have a theme they can sell for corporate trainings. It's bullshite, divisive, and counterproductive.
Just know that all people are different and that it takes a real simpleton to classify people by birth year. It's been done for centuries, but people like simple.
It would have been just as true to say your generation has altered the way it communicates and the evidence is this post. But go ahead and kid yourself that it's those darn millenials.
It's also useful for the motivational speaker circuit to have a theme they can sell for corporate trainings. It's bullshite, divisive, and counterproductive.
Just know that all people are different and that it takes a real simpleton to classify people by birth year. It's been done for centuries, but people like simple.
It would have been just as true to say your generation has altered the way it communicates and the evidence is this post. But go ahead and kid yourself that it's those darn millenials.
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