Every time I get an email from my Dad is in ALL CAPS and adorned with 20 exclamation marks. It is the old loud-fighting, opinionated spirit of the Boomers and they have discovered where to keep it alive: online.
It is not just email. Yes, Boomers do have an online life. No, they don't spend their time uploading all of the pictures from last night's bar crawl but they do join the online world by participating in polls and blogs (back to the fighting and opinionated-spirit comment)
Nothing has changed since the 60s. It is just that in 2009, opinions are coded in CSS and are written in ALL CAPS.
What does this mean? The Boomers are spending more time online, which resulted in the the government taking an interest and investing in social technologies, as well as graphic designers becoming more digital.
How is that for a pattern?
Read it:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/baby-boomers-luddites-not-so-fast/?em
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