Geeze! 10 years ago these kids were smoking pot with 10 year olds, now they are doing demographics work for the banks.  I wish they were living at home and twittering in their underwear and that the 28 year olds were marching with legba.

The whole scene has an Orwellian feel

I forgot when to invest in Plague Pills or Bailed out Twits and when to disinvest.  Help me Little Brother!

-mason


--- In media-squatters@yahoogroups.com, Legba Carrefour <legba.carrefour@...> wrote:
>
> http://media.ft.com/cms/c3852b2e-6f9a-11de-bfc5-00144feabdc0.pdf
>
> Link to the introduction to the report (not written by a 15-year-old).
>
> FYI, the reality is that the kid didn't say anything that would surprise
> anyone who has been even casually following youth media consumption habits
> outside of buzzwords and hype. The claim that teens aren't really using
> twitter seems to be bothering people the most--largely, i suspect, because
> of how adults were really mapping twitter onto kids.
>
> I don't think twitter is going to take off with that demographic until
> phones gets cheaper and that technology gets implemented somewhere else like
> laconia that lets you form your own networks.
>
> And I do hope that this meme about twitter's role in street protests would
> die already.
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Legba Carrefour legba.carrefour@...
> > wrote:
>
> > This is apparently a BIG DEAD NEWS AWESOME TIME story in the UK this
> > morning, no lie:
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/13/twitter-teenage-media-habits
> >
> > A 15-year-old intern at Morgan Stanley has written an analysis on the media
> > consumption habits of teens, claiming, among other things, that teenagers
> > aren't as interested in Twitter as adults seem to think they are. That
> > actually matches something I've been noticing. I work with a lot of teens
> > through the activism I do and while they're into facebook, twitter strikes
> > them as dumb. The people who are into twitter? Media workers in their
> > thirties. I went to the Campus Progress National Conference (which I'm
> > getting an article about published this week) and every ten minutes, some
> > adult would take the microphone, say the word "tweet", and giggle like they
> > had brain worms.
> >
> > In other news, Morgan fucking Stanley is having the interns write the
> > reports.
> >
> > (Not like there aren't 28-year-old's with master's degrees sitting around
> > their apartments in their underwear, trying to find work or anything. :-P)
> >
> >
> >
>