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Social By Design

... bartering. Even though these companies are actually capitalist, they promote socialist principles by making people more comfortable with sharing with strangers, a concept that would have felt foreign in the past. Young people have long felt at ease sharing files and content online, and now their comfort with sharing physical items is catching up with that of digital sharing. Many of the apps upon which such services are founded require a critical mass in order to be effective. The more people ...

Shop Talk

... ” form of shopping. Even though they’re more likely to conduct their shopping online than Xers and Boomers, online shopping hasn’t changed much since its inception, and as generations known for disruption, this lack of innovation is boring them—which goes hand-in-hand with their desire for more immersive retail experiences IRL. One issue with online shopping is that it’s a solo activity, done behind the shopper’s screen. To remedy this, independent apps are emerging to socialize online shopping ...

True To Self

... misrepresent themselves because it can come back to haunt them. Being able to observe their own development over time is also playing a role in Ys’ coming of age. Now that Facebook features and apps like Timehop make it possible to track one’s behaviors over time, they’re more aware of the web’s permanence and thus more discerning about what they share. In this sense, the ability to track vast amounts of detailed personal data allows them to quantify their habits for the sake of self-improvement and ...

Nesting & Resting

... items, but now, self-care is seen as a treat. In a reflection of this, Ys are making more personal improvement commitments than any generation before them. Per NPR, they spend twice as much as Boomers on self-care essentials and apps to improve their personal wellbeing, even creating things like self-care Twitter bots. Skeptics might chalk this up as yet another way that youth are being self-centered, but as young people see it, such indulgences aren’t selfish but rather critical to creating a ...

Gender Worldwide

... , which featured images in which women were noticeably cropped out and replaced with pieces of furniture. CHINA: HOOKUP APP-RECIATION Sex was once a taboo topic in China, but this mindset is fading, especially among Millennials. As they increasingly embrace their sexual freedom, the country’s young adults are turning to location-based social contact apps to facilitate the search for potential hookup partners. According to The New York Times, the flirting app Momo, which means “Hi, stranger” in ...

Dollars For Change

... relief efforts. There’s even a growing number of apps that make discovering causes and giving a small donation part of one’s regular routine, mimicking the ease with which they browse their social feeds and like a post to show their support. Technology has broken down the barriers for donating as causes come to consumers’ personal devices where they’re sharing information and spending money already.Technology has the ability not only to facilitate small donations, but also to track them. I love ...

Mixed Emotions

... . These contributing factors from the outside world make it all the more important to focus on emotional health from within. Being in tune with one’s emotions is part of the mindfulness movement that youth have embraced more and more via meditation apps and holistic healing methods, and some young people are practicing mindfulness specifically to benefit their emotional wellbeing: nearly seven in 10 young adults in the U.S. and UK practice mindfulness to both feel calmer and to improve their mood ...

The Sexual Mehvolution

... getting what they want. What’s more, they now have access to apps and sites that can make those fantasies a reality by allowing them to target mates based on specific sexual kinks and select physical attributes like age, race, hair color, height, and body type. However, emotional connection, which is as widely desired as physical connection, has been harder to manufacture. This may soon change thanks to advancements in technology. Some experts believe that virtual reality porn will be the wave of the ...

Life Skills

... is a subscription service that mails kids a new coding project each month. Created by two former Google employees, the program’s boxes contain an activity book with over a dozen apps to build and app trading cards with lines of code on the back. Children choose the project they want to do, then go online to type the code and run the app on Bitsbox’s virtual tablet; afterwards, they can send the app to their own device and even share it on social media.DASH & DOTStartup Wonder Workshop’s Dash ...

Debranded

... for self-expression. In short, it’s not the phone itself, but rather what’s in it and on it that defines its owner. Apps, covers and skins, and a host of other tech accessories allow individuals to make their phones their own. The demand for such imprints continues to grow across categories. With the rise of street style came the rise of accessorizing, and add-ons became the primary way to set oneself apart from the crowd. Alongside the usual suspects, like nail art, scarves, hats, shoes, and ...