Welcome the Millennials. The Millennials is the new term for the current generation of children whom are growing up wired - you know the ones - the teenagers who know more about the Internet than do their parents, or hey, than even their older siblings. The generally accepted definition of “Millennials” is “children and teenagers who came of age at the dawn of the millennium,” or “the teens and twenty-somethings born after 1981,” (which is when Gen Y is generally thought to have ended).

There has already been a fair amount written about the Millennials, but what is most interesting for our purposes is their use of the Internet, and their netcentric view of the world.

For example, according to one study, Millennials spend more time on the Internet than they do watching television. Is that a good thing? A bad thing? Or is it just swapping one fix for another?

What is decidedly a bad thing…

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[tags]teenagers,gen x,gen y,millennials,netcentric[/tags]