Teens don’t twitter (in other news, bears indeed … in the woods)
Jul 16th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Social Media buzz, Tech buzz, Things that make me go hmmm, What's your take?When I saw an article on YahooTech titled “Media execs rocked by 15-year-old’s blunt, blistering analysis” I got pretty excited. I am always eager to see examples of teens defying the ageist perception that only “grownups” (heck, I’m in my forties and I am still waiting to “grow up”) can do real thinking or contribute to society.
But as I got to reading the article I was baffled by two things: a) the apparently vapid obviousities (yes, I make words up. Deal with it.) of the kid’s “analysis” and b) the ludicrous frenzy that this report apparently created, with “dozens and dozens of clients calling and emailing all day.”
And what, pray tell, is this kid’s amazing wisdom? Teens don’t twitter. Teens like free music. Teens eschew banner ads.
Didn’t we all know this already? How many teens do you run into on Twitter? Speaking for myself, the answer is none. I finally got my college-age daughter, a dvorak-typing technorata who runs Linux and is generally an early adopter, to sign up for Twitter, and I see nary a tweet coming out of her.
Do teens like free music? Oh shock. Next thing you know, they’ll be telling me that lawyers like billable hours, or that the new Transformers movie was “unrealistic”.
Oh c’mon now, my esteemed African-American brother. Surely you jest.
