From Susan Boyle on ‘Britain's Got Talent’ to Grandma’s on Facebook - Baby Boomers Are Fearless
New York, NY, April 23, 2009 --(PR.com)-- “Thanks to Generation Y’s plaything YouTube, the whole world is now celebrating the voice and face of Susan Boyle, a shy 47-year-old singer from a small Scottish village who wowed Simon Cowell and other judges of Britain’s got Talent, and that’s an ironic twist” notes Jacqueline Wales, speaker, coach and author of The Fearless Factor: Living Your Best Life Now (www.thefearlessfactor.com).
According to Wales, she’s finding lots of evidence that today’s baby boomers are fearless about aging and as a result, 20-somethings may be even more stunned to see their grandmas creating Facebook sites, let alone appearing on YouTube. She observes that boomers are embracing consumer technology applications nearly 20 times faster than the younger generation. According to The Mercury News in San Jose, over the past year the percentage of boomers listening to podcasts or reading blogs jumped 67 percent to 26 percent while Generation Y stayed flat at 45 percent.
Inside Facebook, a Web site that reports on the social networking king, says the fastest-growing segment of users over the past 60 days is people over 35. While the biggest segment of members are still 18-25 (19.5 million), there are now 13.4 million members between 35-54 -a figure that ballooned 276 percent over the past six months.
Perhaps most interesting are the demographics of Twitter. According to Nielsen Online, 65.2 percent of the people who visited the micro blogging site in February were over 35.
Concludes Wales, “This just confirms my opinion that you are never too old, too fat or too late for Anything.”
About Jacqueline Wales
Jacqueline Wales is known the world over as The Fearless Lady. As the Founder and CEO of The Fearless Factor, her unique programs have helped women around the globe visualize goals, overcome adversity, develop confident communication skills and achieve meaningful success. By applying the skills she learned in over thirty years of making change in her own life, Wales has gone on to achieve remarkable success after a lifetime of overcoming the odds. She is a regular contributor to Boomerliving.com and has had the opportunity to share her knowledge and expertise through media outlets such as ABC Business Week Weekend, PBS Nightly Business Report, Martha Stewart Living Radio and The Louie Jones Show among others. She lives in New York. You can learn more about Jacqueline Wales on her website at http://www.thefearlessfactor.com.
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According to Wales, she’s finding lots of evidence that today’s baby boomers are fearless about aging and as a result, 20-somethings may be even more stunned to see their grandmas creating Facebook sites, let alone appearing on YouTube. She observes that boomers are embracing consumer technology applications nearly 20 times faster than the younger generation. According to The Mercury News in San Jose, over the past year the percentage of boomers listening to podcasts or reading blogs jumped 67 percent to 26 percent while Generation Y stayed flat at 45 percent.
Inside Facebook, a Web site that reports on the social networking king, says the fastest-growing segment of users over the past 60 days is people over 35. While the biggest segment of members are still 18-25 (19.5 million), there are now 13.4 million members between 35-54 -a figure that ballooned 276 percent over the past six months.
Perhaps most interesting are the demographics of Twitter. According to Nielsen Online, 65.2 percent of the people who visited the micro blogging site in February were over 35.
Concludes Wales, “This just confirms my opinion that you are never too old, too fat or too late for Anything.”
About Jacqueline Wales
Jacqueline Wales is known the world over as The Fearless Lady. As the Founder and CEO of The Fearless Factor, her unique programs have helped women around the globe visualize goals, overcome adversity, develop confident communication skills and achieve meaningful success. By applying the skills she learned in over thirty years of making change in her own life, Wales has gone on to achieve remarkable success after a lifetime of overcoming the odds. She is a regular contributor to Boomerliving.com and has had the opportunity to share her knowledge and expertise through media outlets such as ABC Business Week Weekend, PBS Nightly Business Report, Martha Stewart Living Radio and The Louie Jones Show among others. She lives in New York. You can learn more about Jacqueline Wales on her website at http://www.thefearlessfactor.com.
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