Generation Y

Generation Y

Defining our generation, I think one of the keys is the meaning of sharing the necessity to always let other know. There are many consequences of this constant sharing, a self-promotion; the use of thousand tools to share what we want other people to see. Past societies had always want to show themselves in a way, dressing in a certain way, behaving with certain manners, but at the end there were many things that could not be hidden. With our generation today, we get to “know” a lot of people and facts through technology, the malleability of this medium, being able to decide fully how we are being seen take the self-presentation to another level, a complete control of how people look at us.

I believe this aspect of sharing has only been so extreme in the last 5 or 10 years, and therefore I haven’t encounter any literary work that explores this topic of technological self-presentation and it’s role on our personality and society in general. I actually believe that some twitter pages might be even a “literary work” that defines the Y generation. Twitter has a larger out rich that many of the great books done today. There are also many collaborative writing sites and even writing apps that I believe creates literature today.

https://twitter.com/humblethepoet or even my friend https://twitter.com/billellispoems are strange signs of literature in today’s generation.

Moreover when I get down to what literary work defines and tides my generation, I cannot relate that deeply to any of the above and it might be because they are so new, and I might relate to then in a neat future. But now when I look back the only literature work that I think tides all of our generation is Harry Potter, the main character is our age, he is an unfortunate kid that lost his parents, but yet he has this magic world behind him. Having red the books for the first time in Uruguay, and going to Singapore to find out that there it was also something that everyone red really gave me the feeling of a global village tied together with literature, no matter what language we spoke how we red it but we all could relate to it.

Even more surprising coming to the US showed me this fact even more, playing Quidich, going to Harry Potter land and drinking butter beer; Harry Potter is defiantly a literary work that is borderless and belongs to our generation.