We had Baby Boomers and lots of generational nicknames. According to the Wikipedia, the last named generation is Generation Z. I think the X-Y-Z nominations are pretty boring.
I propose that the kids coming into college age at this time be called the MyFace generation. For those of you over the voting age, that would be a reference to the fact that the young kids coming of age today have, for all practically purposes, grown up with the internet, and the networking softwares of MySpace.com and Facebook.com are where they cut their teeth socially.
If you don’t have an internet presence, you are invisible to the MyFace generation. This has implications for a preaching movement. Fortunately, ISKCON has an outreach there in the form of Planet ISKCON, even though many of the older layer of devotees, and their younger clones, haven’t figured it out yet.
I hope some more of the older devotees eventually come around and recognize the new social networking paradigm evolving with the MyFace generation.
I had planned on a more elaborate explanation of this, but I am having another flareup of the gout and sitting up is unpleasant. Keeping my foot elevated mitigates the pain to some degree, so I am bailing on this at this point, hoping the brighter amongst you can extrapolate what else I would have written on the topic.
