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By Tatiana Kielberman In the last weeks a phenomenon has swept over social networks in Brazil. Nothing unexpected, especially because as social-network-addicts know, it’s impossible to predict what crazily cool thing they’ll come up with next. Allowing Orkut contacts (currently the most popular social network in Brazil) to be transferred to Facebook, is a monumental [...]

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An Interview with UT Dallas Prof Monica Rankin, creator of “The Twitter Experiment.” By Ines Schinazi Perhaps what makes Generation Y’s educational experience most different from the experience of past generations is the overwhelming presence of technology in the classroom, and all the implications this brings. While cell phones and laptops are often considered to [...]

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By Manuela Mesquita I’ve always thought of my mother as a baby boomer, but a baby boomer who doesn’t fit the stereotype. My mother introduced me to e-mail, even though I’m part of generation Y. My mother got on MSN chat before I did. She knows way more about computers than I do. I always [...]

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By Tatiana Kielberman The other day, I read a poem by Luiz Fernando Veríssimo that could easily have been a mirror, reflecting my self. Working for the blog, I’m used to receiving many texts that talk about generational conflicts, and yet very few of them are straight to the point, or express in a direct [...]

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By Flávia Vianna It’s incredible how a tool used to send messages through 140 characters can be used to update us, convey emotion, encourage thinking, reflection, and laughter, or “all of the above.” A few weeks ago, I got a post through Twitter talking about a mom who went into an electronics store and asked [...]

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By Vanessa Van Petten I wrote a post called “Teen Slang: Decoding What Your Teens Are Saying”  and it did well for about 2 weeks until the negative comments started rolling in. “We don’t saaaaaay that anymore.” “These are, like, so old!” Two weeks? Two weeks is all it takes for something to become out [...]

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By Cory Huff* “This is Cory. He’s our social media guy,” says Manager to the new hires. “He gets paid to play on Facebook all day.” I just roll my eyes and tell the new hires to ignore him. I’m happy because I finally got the IT Manager to undo the block on social media [...]

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By Silvana Avinami I’m over it. I can’t stand reading about one more Gen X manager who thinks that Gen Y is the worst generation of employees that has come along. And I cannot stand watching one more Baby Boomer manager roll their eyes as they complain that Gen Y is a group of spoiled, [...]

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By Ines Schinazi “My mother has always been an actress to me.”  This is how Jessy Hodges explains that her relationship with her mother hasn’t changed, despite the fact that they’ve recently found themselves in very similar places career-wise, while obviously being at completely different points in their lives. As a mother gets back into [...]

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The red areas indicate regions of activation in the functional MRI scanner during the particular task – reading (1st photo) or web searching (2nd photo). By Ines Schinazi Technology is obviously changing the way we speak, communicate, interact, and relate to each other. But is technology also changing our brains? Dr. Gary Small thinks so. [...]

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