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The MySpace Generation
theodp writes "They live online. They buy online. They play online. Their power is growing. BusinessWeek reports on The MySpace Generation, aka Generation @, for whom being online is a way of life. Preeminent among the virtual hangouts is MySpace.com, who boasts 40 million members and claimed the No. 15 spot on the entire U.S. Internet. And in When murder hits the blogosphere, MSNBC reports on MySpace's sometimes surreal role in popular news stories."
'X' was named that because either nobody could think of a name, or nobody 'got' us. There's no need too use a 'y' designation other than it follows after 'x', but that just denote lazyness.
It would be more honest too name generations by world/national economic/political gain/loss. For instance, there is the 'Lost Generation' (yes, I know it formally pertains too writers in the early 1900s, but it's been broadly applied), but what makes them the 'Lost Generation' could be applied too several generations that came before them, and perhaps too the current generation that seems too be holding the limelight. Things tend to follow cycles, and a lot of it just happens over and over again when the previous generation(s) have forgotten about what went on before. Fashion, for instance, comes full circle about every 27 years. Broad generational attitudes could come full circle every 100 years or more.
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I'm not into the whole MySpace thing because I'm past the age when I need to present myself and my life as a spectacle. It's a developmental stage thing, and I say that without being condescending.
That said, it should be respected as a form of writing and publishing. If a friend or love-interest of yours has published their writing somewhere and asked you to look at it by sending you a link, then it is simply rude and obnoxious to say, "no, I want you to go back, cut and paste it, and send it to me." I, for one, would tell you to take a running leap.