Jim at the FBI Memos talks twitter.
Now, email is old school. Adults send three emails for every text. With teens, it is the other way around. Young consumers play by their own set of multi-tasking, micro-messaging rules. And most marketers are failing at getting any message through to them. In a world they completely don’t understand, marketers just assume more is better, and they increase the frequency of their old school messages. This is a generation that can do homework, chat on Facebook, keep up with Twitter and text messaging, all at the same time. According to a 2007 study by MTV and Microsoft, 14-24 year olds have an average of 53 people they consider friends. Multi-tasking is all they’ve ever known. They can filter the noise out.
Michael Bugeja’s book The Interpersonal Divide.. raises serious questions regarding the impact that all of this electronic multitasking has on a sense of ‘community’. Although I do not agree completely with Professor Bugeja, he offers some compelling research that suggests that we have a quite a way to go before making the best use of a new generation of communication tools. Personally, I’d raise an eyebrow at any ‘research’ claims from MTV or Microsoft as possibly self-serving.
xoxo,
The Old Schooler
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