Thursday, February 21, 2013

Week 3 EOC: My Demographics

Millennials (or Generation Y)
The 83 million children of the baby boomers, born between 1977 and 2000. - Marketing Armstrong/Kotler Pg 73

The Millennials, larger than the baby boomers in World War 2, make up a huge attractive market. Millennials  have a common comfort with digital technology. It happens to just be a way of life because that is what we grew up with. A recent study shows 91 percent of Millennials are on the web making up 32 percent of the population. This is definitely something I agree with. While my age group still did play outside as young children, we also grew up into the world of technology were most of us had a cell phone at the age of 10 and   the internet in our house. While the technology is changing into flat screens, smartphones and tablets, the technology is nothing new and easy to comprehend because in a way our generation evolves with the technology. I have to say as much as I do agree with these statistics I also partially disagree. A lot of this generation was still born in the 80’s or me in 1992. In my age class we were still playing outside. We would ride bikes, roller skate, play house outside, kick the soccer ball, play street hockey, play tag in our neighborhood. The most digital thing I can remember was an old school computer and digi pets (Key chain pets that had a little digital face). We still had tape players and furbys and beanie babies. While cell phones became more popular while I was 10 so I was still young enough to grow into the digital everything age, I still had the outside world when I was younger. 

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