January 15, 2007

By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

Those working with traditional age college students know that each generation brings its own unique personality and challenges. The “NetGen,” of which today’s 21-year old is a member, is no different, with a host of differences brought about in large part by technology. If Baby Boomers were shaped by television, typewriters, and the telephone, with a focus on family, and Generation X was the individualist generation shaped by video games, computers, and email, then the NetGen is a group of online communicators whose world has been defined by the web, cell phones, instant messaging, and MP3s.

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