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The Generation of Generation Q

October 16, 2007 - 12:00am
By Rob Fishman

Last week, Thomas Friedman dubbed us “Generation Q” — the Quiet Americans, so plugged in (and tuned out) that our idealism stops at the computer monitor. With so much interconnectedness among the Facebook-YouTube-MySpace cohort, and so much wrong in the world, Friedman wonders why our generation looks so complacent.

The twentysomethings fire back that their technological moving and shaking is being mistaken for indolence; as a recent Sun editorial argued, activism has “transformed from sensationalized 1960s tear-gas rallies to online petitions and Internet discussion boards.”