Comments on: Ypulse Essentials: Punk’d Revived Online, Pirates Buy More Music, Oxygen Makes A Play For Younger Women http://www.ypulse.com/ypulse-essentials-punkd-revived-online-pirates-buy-more-music-oxygen-makes-a-play-for-younger-women Daily news and insight into the Millennial generation for media and marketing professionals Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: melinda http://www.ypulse.com/ypulse-essentials-punkd-revived-online-pirates-buy-more-music-oxygen-makes-a-play-for-younger-women/comment-page-1#comment-4475 melinda Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:51:39 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=9446#comment-4475 It so wonderful to see Sabrina Bryan making a change for young kids and getting invloved.She rocks! It so wonderful to see Sabrina Bryan making a change for young kids and getting invloved.She rocks!

]]> By: Eric Jaffa http://www.ypulse.com/ypulse-essentials-punkd-revived-online-pirates-buy-more-music-oxygen-makes-a-play-for-younger-women/comment-page-1#comment-4474 Eric Jaffa Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:54:18 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=9446#comment-4474 RE "Is Gen Y so vain?" ========================= http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-20-narcissism-youth_N.htm Such traits, (Jean) Twenge says, include a very positive and inflated sense of self, which is illustrated by a preoccupation with MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. ========================= I was a kid in the 1970s. We watched "The Love Boat" on television. It was the best thing on at the time. There was no "MySpace, Facebook and YouTube." Would she prefer that today's young people were watching re-runs of "The Love Boat" instead of communicating with each other through "MySpace, Facebook and YouTube"? I'm glad today's young people have options I didn't have in the 1970s. If they are more vain, then fine. Instead of using the negative-sounding term "vain," one could use the positive-sounding term "self-esteem" for the same trait. RE “Is Gen Y so vain?”

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Such traits, (Jean) Twenge says, include a very positive and inflated sense of self, which is illustrated by a preoccupation with MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.
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I was a kid in the 1970s. We watched “The Love Boat” on television. It was the best thing on at the time. There was no “MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.”

Would she prefer that today’s young people were watching re-runs of “The Love Boat” instead of communicating with each other through “MySpace, Facebook and YouTube”?

I’m glad today’s young people have options I didn’t have in the 1970s.

If they are more vain, then fine.

Instead of using the negative-sounding term “vain,” one could use the positive-sounding term “self-esteem” for the same trait.

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