Every time I see it I like this idea, the iPod Generation: they're Insecure, Pressured, Over-taxed and Debt-ridden.

Young consumers in the UK are now reported to have an effective tax-burden of 48%, plus student debts, soaring mortgage costs and all in all, a pretty tough life. Gone are the care-free young years of the baby-boomers. That generation, now entering their 50's, are still "living the life of teenagers", while young people of today are writhing in angst. Is it really so? Take a look...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/18/nipod18.xml

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According to the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) the daily average number of sms in China has reached 1,098,000,000 - over a billion sms every day.

Phew...

And Chinese internet users also spend longer online than their American counterparts. There may be plenty of handwringing in the West about censorship of the net in China, but Chinese people are embracing the internet as their most open and participative source of information and entertainment.

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