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06 Jul 08

A poll carried out for electronics retailer Plantronics showed 63 per cent of managers saying new graduates communicated less vocally than their colleagues.
"The way this new generation wants to work is different and that's no surprise," said Plantronics UK general manager Paul Clark. "Graduates today have grown up with newer forms of communication."
Only 16 per cent of managers attributed the reluctance to pick up the phone or talk face to face to a lack of interpersonal skills.

The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, found after two months of regular blogging, people felt they had better social support and friendship networks than those who did not blog.

New research released today by MySpace reveals social networks are now so integral to daily life, for some, they have surpassed the TV as the entertainment media of choice.

Nearly half of 18-24 year old social networkers (45%) told Future Laboratory researchers that if they had 15 minutes of spare time they would choose spend it on social networking sites rather than watching TV, reading, talking on their mobile, or playing video games.

The impact of this trend is so significant that a quarter (25%) of respondents state that the rise in social networks has decreased the amount of traditional television they consume.