Coz we are living in an online world, and I am online girl.

Sorry just channeling a bit of Madonna and material girl there.

So, I’ve written a few times about Generation Y and people’s perceptions, opinions, and generalisations, most of which I have disagreed with. But today, low and behold I’m going to babble on for a bit on a Gen Y ‘trait’ that I actually agree with and can totally relate to.

No, it’s not walking around saying ‘fully sick’, but living my life online. I have no trouble in putting my hand up and saying I don’t think I would survive without my computer, or my iPhone now for that matter.

I email clients instead of calling them, I text my friends and family instead of calling them, and when my mobile rings, I barley recognise my own ringtone. Why? Because I tend to use my iPhone more as a computer than a phone!

I sit at my computer for 8 hours a day at work, I have my email open, client documents open, and the Internet open with about, oh you know 13 different tabs. I’m on Twitter, Facebook, here of course is my blog. I comment on other blogs, I read the news online. A newspaper? What is that?! Yes, I am without a doubt an online Gen Y kinda girl.

I wouldn’t go as far to say that I’m tech-savvy and up on all the widget and wiki jargon, but I can find my way around most things digital and like most of our generation it’s all about trial and error. You try something and if it doesn’t work you hit undo and try something else. Something I think older generations tend not to do. Or oops was that too much of a generalisation!

Anyway, so for all the bagging that Gen Y cops, you know those great phrases like “Oh I don’t know the youth of today and all their fancy gadgets”, I’m proud to be part of the Gen Y online kids and wonder what life is like without constant communication?

Maybe it’s boring? Or maybe we’ve all got the wrong idea and it’s quite peaceful!

Anyway, I’m off to tweet, facebook, google and whatever else it is that we Gen Y’s do all day!

The Gen debate: Is all fair in LOL and war?

I’m fascinated with Generation Y, but of course I would be, because that’s such a selfish thing to do and as I a member of Gen Y, why wouldn’t I be fascinated with myself.

Don’t worry this is going somewhere.

What I am actually genuinely fascinated with is other people’s perceptions of my generation. I’ve written about it before, you know those lovely things called generalisations, like we’re all selfish, lazy, obsessed with technology, don’t work hard, don’t work at all, all those things.

So when I read an article on SMH.com.au titled “When is an employee too old to work” all my Gen Y defending mechanisms kicked into gear again.

Y does the minority give the rest of us a bad name…

For a while now, the ‘generation gap’ meant that our parents didn’t understand why ripped jeans cost twice as much as regular ones, why boys had to wear their pants down around their knees or why every other word coming out of their child’s mouth was “like.”

Now it seems that the generation gap has expanded through all aspects of life.

Instead of just punching out some random opinions I thought I’d tell you a story! So here’s how my generation story goes!

Being referred to as Gen Y was never really a part of my life until I met Andrew.

Andrew is an old school friend of my partner John’s. He is extremely funny, very quick witted and seems to be fascinated with the whole Gen X, Gen Y thing!

While there is a 12 year age difference between John and I, I never really categorised us into different generations…. until I met Andrew!

So what or who are Gen X and Gen Y? In the UK the term Generation X was first used in a 1964 study of British youth where the study revealed a generation of teenagers who “sleep together before they are married, don’t believe in God, dislike the Queen, and don’t respect parents”.