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- 1970 multiculturalism
NOTABLE VARIATIONS
Pg. 22 - Friendship
- life giving and indispensible
- technology has changed how people experience friendship
- Baby Boomer Bill Gates the Microsoft founder led the way in
giving the
millennial generation endless communication and information
possibilities
- others such as Rogers, Shaw, Blackberry, Bell etc. also lent
communication and information possibilities
MILLENNIALS
SOURCES OF ENJOYMENT
1) Friends
2) Music
3) Internet
4) I Pod / MP# player
5) Family and extended friendships
6) Sports (males)
7) Room of ones own
8) Girls more open about friendships/relationships and pets (in
being open girls enjoy using their cell phones and e-mail more
so than boys
9) T.V.
10) E-mail use is up from 2000 from 3/10 to 5/10
11) Being alone
12) Shopping (females)
13) Cars (males)
14) Video and computer games (males)
15) School and jobs
16) Reading (females)
17) Youth groups 4/10
18) Religious groups specifically
- parents want good friends and the right kind of people for
their adolescents
Pg. 31 Friends
- 99% have at least 1 friend (close friend)
- 70% have at least 4 friends
- 15% have at least 3 friends
- 10% have at least 2 friends
- only 1% do not have a close friend
- males and females reported almost an identical number of
friends
Pg. 32 - technology accounts for an increase in the number of
close friends perceived (ie.) facebook
skype
cell phones
- there are internet friendship groups
- internet social ties is the #1 group activity for males and the #2
group activity for males
- facebook is the #1 website for 50% of females
Pg. 33 - sports, YouTube, computer games favored by more males
than females
- statistics reveal the web is primarily a social versus information
function for young people
Pg. 34 - internet non friendly purposes = cyberbullying, child
luring, harassment, financial exploitation spam, viruses
EXPANSION OF FRIENDSHIP BOUNDARIES
SUMMARY
BOOMER BACKDROP
Pg.53 88% maintain teens are using some form of birth control while
12% say they are not
Pg. 54 _ of the 40% of teens who see themselves as sexually active,
47% indicate aids has had an influence on their sex lives with no
significant difference between males and females
TREND TRACKING
- percentage of teens who say they never have had sex has
increased from 51% to 56%
Pg. 64 - Post World War Two Boomers could now turn their attention to
the quality of life issues
- education and career took a lot of their time
- time had grown scarce people said the pace of life had
increased
- education and career was bought at the expense of family etc.
Pg. 65 - Boomers have the highest level of divorce
- the Boomers feel collectively less fulfilled than the pre-Boomers
- millennials left with a lot of to do stickers i.e. school, teachers,
relationships, parents, money, looks, future
- they feel they can do most things = 85% males and 75%
females
- they are good looking = 76%males and 61% females
Pg.71 -millennials feel very positive regarding themselves the males
more so than the females
THE VULNERABLES
POLICE PROBLEMS
- 48% of teens say the average Canadian does not have any
influence on what government does
- 66% of teens believe the average teen does not have any
influence
Pg. 97 French and English Quebec public school systems are more
inclined to follow the news
- Private Christian schools are less interested in the news
- Catholic and public schools report interest in the news
- other faith school interested in news at a fairly high level i.e.
the environment, world events, Canadian politics, Afghanistan
TREND TRACKING
Pg. 93 Teens less likely than adults of all ages to report they are
following the news
- older generation has more interest in the news it seems to be
a life-stage phenomenon
- suggests intergenerational changes
- could the younger generation be becoming less inclined than
the earlier generations to have an early and life long interest in
what is going on around them
Pg.99 -is the technology and information for their primary use on a
personal level rather than for a collective purpose
- we are a global family available to each other
- power of medium is being used for relational and entertainment
purposes
Pg. 100- will teens get the wisdom and the motivation needed to
respond