Realities of Teens & Technology

I have been reading through this presentation by Lee Rainie this week. Here’s the summary of the presentation online, “This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings. It looks at the growing role of technology in teens' lives, the way they use their gadgets, their expectations about how to find and use information, and the social consequences of their use of technology.”

Here are the realities:

1 - Millennials are a distinct age cohort, according to many measures of generational behavior and attitude.

2 - They are immersed in a world of media and gadgets.

3 - The Millennials’ worlds is that their technology is mobile.

4 - The internet plays a special role in their world.

5 - Millennials’ are multi-taskers.

6 - They are often unaware of or indifferent to the consequences of their use of technology.

7 - Their (our) technology world will change radically in the next decade because we are in the middle of several technology J curves.

8 –The way they approach learning and research tasks will be shaped by their new techno-world.

I am particularly interested in the eigth reality and what implications this will have on discipleship.