What is net generation?
Net generation mainly refers to those young people,who were born in the 1980s', and grew up with the development of modern technologies, such as TV, computers....Net generation has been deeply affected by those modern communicative technologies, and they have formed their unqiue way of life and culture.
How difference from the previous generations?
The differences between the net generation and the previous generations can be found at every aspect of life, such as the differences of way of studying, living, shopping, communicating, and what's more, the differences of culture. For instance, the channel for the previous generations to obtain information is through the traditional media, mainly print media, such as TV, newspaper, while for the net generation , they get information more like through the internet.
Why is differnet?
In my opinion, the main reason for the differences or the gaps is the development of modern technologies, esp. the rapid development of internet. With the popularity the internet, a new culture has been formed--'cyber culture'. Internet provides the web users a platfrom of communication and shareing the rescourses. Because of the lack of flexibilities of accessing to the internet, the previous generations prefer the traditioanl communicative tools, while the net generation is more like the modern cyber-culture. It's not only just a cyber space, but a cyber-culture!