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Short Life

... to me is because the pictures send so much faster than text messages. If I have to tell my friend something short, I’d much rather do it through Snapchat than text because it is just so much easier. I like that you can only see the picture for up to ten seconds. My friends and I play this game where we’ll send each other pictures of us making funny faces, just for a laugh. I would never do it through texting because then they could post the picture. AMELIA, 14Even categories traditionally geared ...

The Relationships & Community Perspective

... texting as the top way to keep in touch with their children.In this issue of Life Interrupted, we explore how Covid-19 has impacted young people’s relationships and sense of community, noting several emerging trends that will require brands to rethink their strategies and interactions with young people, as the pandemic has sincerely tested young generations’ eLationships in unexpected ways. When it comes to dating and romantic relationships, being quarantined has put stress on some relationships as ...

Innovation IRL: Profiles Of Modern Youth

... An ethnography of young people’s innovation usage over the course of a week.For The Innovation Outlook, we asked three young people in the U.S. and three in the UK to keep a diary of the innovations they used in their personal life over the course of a week, excluding basic functions on mobile devices and computers (e.g., texting, sending an email, using the Internet). Before embarking upon the week, we asked the participants to categorize themselves based on their innovation attitude, as ...

(A)social Skills

... leveraging technology to filter their relationships and control communication—a practice that’s both helping and hurting them. The advent of new technology is opening up the doors of communication and widening Zs’ social spheres in ways that can be overwhelming. Filtering these relationships helps break down their world into a more manageable size. They accomplish this by compartmentalizing contacts based on the varying levels of closeness they feel towards them. Texting, which is the primary way ...

Some Other Time

... solve for different needs, such as Apple’s Do Not Disturb feature intended to curb texting while driving. Young people have used the service to send an automatic reply stating that they’re otherwise occupied. Similar to the trend of implementing more personal and humorous out-of-office email replies, some young people have created comical auto replies to enable their time-shifting behavior, often with hilarious results. And while text overload is a more common problem among 14- to 34-year-olds, the ...

Retail 2.0: Tech-Based Commerce

... was a natural expansion of the social media shopping experience and its ripple effects are changing the very nature of shopping. To wit, 32% of U.S. and UK Trendsetters have used a "buy" button on a social media site, while 42% of U.S. Trendsetters and 37% in the UK are interested in this payment method. And around one in five U.S. and UK Trendsetters have ordered and paid using a social media post, such as texting a pizza emoji to Dominos. This type of ordering and payment system is still ...

Social Live

... inherent need to multitask. They can leave their hangout open in the background as they do homework (which many reported doing in our qualitative research) or chores, for instance, and this type of interaction lets them feel much closer to each other than they would if they were simultaneously texting or communicating via social media. In fact, much of the appeal of group video chat is that Zs can be “alone together” without having a particular purpose. Group video chat helps fulfill their desire for ...

Overboredom

... always someone else in the queue. Zs, despite their aspirations for marriage, may find themselves writing off quality partners too quickly because their speed of evaluation causes them to dismiss those whose flaws arise too soon in the dating process. Likewise, it could affect intergenerational dating and friendships. For instance, an X or Y might consider it acceptable to wait a day before texting someone back, while a Z might find such a lapse insultingly long. This also has implications for ...