Attention Boomers…Learn How to Communicate with Millennials

 

Millennials…it’s tough enough for me to spell it, let alone learn communicate with “them”!

But, here are some ideas on how to talk or communicate to those cry-baby, tech savvy Millennials.  Next time you encounter one of them and have to talk to one of them, try any of the following language antidotes to perhaps communicate more effectively:

1) Bacn: impersonal emails that you have chosen to receive, such as alerts and newsletters.

2) Bershon: the angry/bored/too-cool-to-care look that 12 to 18 year olds seem to sport in their family photos.

3) Compunicate: to “chat” with a co-worker using Instant Messenger when you are in the same room, rather than speak to them.

4) Defriend: to remove someone from your established list of contacts.

5) Lifestreaming: posting an on-line record of a person’s dailey actvities, such as some blogs.

6) Meatspace: a reference to the physical world, such as being the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality.

7) Moofer: derived from the acronym for “mobile out of the office”.  This is someone who between meetings abandons their office with a laptop and Blackberry to stop at Starbucks or anyplace else they can escape talkative co-workers.

Passion Bucket: a metaphor for a job or endeavor that can fulfill one’s sense of mission and ambition.

9) Porntastic: great, but slightly racy and edgy.

You can practice and use these communication techniques for your Millennial encounters or call me for a normal conversation!

Good luck…and by the way, these were culled from magazines, web sites and blogs – so go figure!

Thank you for making me Your Orange County Real Estate Connection.

Best regards, Michael Caruso

~ by Michael A. Caruso on June 25, 2008.