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"Twitter is for old people"
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--- Quote ---Just over a fortnight ago, Matthew Robson had never worked in banking. This was mainly because he was 15 years and 7 months old and attending a comprehensive school in South London.
Today he is the talk of Tokyo, Wall Street and the City. Fund managers, CEOs and analysts are poring over his report, How Teenagers Consume Media, which he wrote last week while on work experience at Morgan Stanley.
In it he laid out the world according to the teenager: a confusing place where the PC is a radio, the games console is a telephone, the mobile telephone is a stereo and text-message machine, the DVDs are pirate copies and no one uses Twitter.
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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6703399.ece
SO, what do people think about this article?
I think that a lot of it is fairly straightforward, but I also think that some of it seems rather specific to his own circle of friends. I see a lot of teens in Sydney using phones, and not everyone plays consoles enough to use it as a main source of communication with their friends. However, a lot more people are using internet-connected computers these days, and if you substitute talking over consoles with chats, IMs etc and then using your mobile when you are out or to talk to someone you don't normally talk to a lot then it seems pretty accurate.
And quite frankly, I thought that a lot of this shit (especially the summations at the end) was approaching general knowledge by now. So I am fairly surprised that business & marketing people didn't already know most of it.
Ozymandias:
Anecdote : data :: goose : horses
pwhodges:
I saw little of interest there that is not plainly visible to anyone who looks. Just an unjustified implication that these teenagers are defining the world of the future. Remember, teenagers metamorphose into adults, which are a different species. The adult world is changing too, but will remain a different place.
MrBlu:
I must be a different kind of teenager.
I actually read the newspaper.
KharBevNor:
I listen to the radio. Though to be fair, not for music, which I stream off last.fm or play on my computer.
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