A generation-driven Revolution is in the making!

In the same Facebook paper that describes how our world is much smaller than we thought, and is shrinking, there is another very interesting curve.

the age of your friends on facebook, depending on your own age

The comment in the paper is mostly on the fact that we tend to connect with people of our age – there is a sharp spike, even at age 60.

Still this curve carries a lot of other very interesting information. The most obvious is that we tend to connect with younger people, not at all with people older than ourselves. And as a consequence, the generation in their 20′s appears to be very disconnected from the older generations.

What is the consequence? The generation in their 20′s, for which Facebook and other social networks is a normal part of the world, evolves rather independently. This is a sure source of Revolutions.

Brace! Driven by the generation born in the 1990′s, the Revolution is coming.