The Internet Beats Dating, Partying, Status Symbols

After a few serious weeks covering Echo Boomers, it's time for a funny article about the Millennial generation.

For Generation Y, the internet ranks as most important, according to an article, over things like partying, dating, going out with friends or even status symbols (like cars). Get this: over half of respondents - college students and young professionals - stated that they could not live without the internet.

And remember that Facebook will assimilate you:

More than one in four (27 per cent) college students will rather update their Facebook account than to hang out with friends.

Note that nine of 10 of these students have a Facebook account — of those, 81 per cent check it daily and 33 per cent at least five times a day.

Mark Zuckerberg must absolutely love this generation.

The funny thing about this is that I still recall the time when the internet was only for nerds. In high school, surfing the internet was "not cool," in the same way that having a website, knowing what "www" meant, or having an email account was "not cool." Yet now, 90% of students have Facebook accounts, and I'm sure that trend will continue to rise across the Millennial generation.