Nouveau Hermitism

Warning: You might encounter massive headaches after reading this post, due to the fact that you are out-dated from the cyberspace arena for a gazillion years, especially when you read the acronyms. Acronyms is explained at the bottom of post. Be warned!



Have you notice recently, for the last couple of years, that there are new trend of young adolescent youth emerging from the internet-connectivity-society? This newly trend is different from the previous generation of youth. How are different?

They go online and live their life online. They play MMOPRGs in regardless of their gender males or females, in regardless of age from 8 to 56, such as WOW, which is already the most successful games ever created. They have an online identity, which they refer as IGN. Most probably they are even known from their IGN rather than names!


They have massive updated information of everything from the online world, from news locally and globally, from fashion tips and celebrity gossips, from eBay and lelong.com, from online shopping and online air-ticketing booking, from hotel reservation and food reviews, from phone reviews and Amazon.com. They have more information than you know. Seriously!



They blogs and reads more now than ever. They blogs and reviews everything, from food to drinks, from restaurants to cafes, from mobile phones to IPODs, from magazines to books, from their latest games to that character in WOW. They become more open than ever and more willing to share everything from opinions, thoughts, Mp3s, JPEGs and AVIs in their harddisk. They are more connected and more network in their Facebook and MySpace than the president of Namibia.


They are fast and mobile. They listens to their IPOD and have more gadgets than anyone from the previous generation. Gadgets such as not-the-latest-phone (youth do not chase after the latest phone anymore, rather a phone with style, usability and functions to suits their needs), a blackberry (its not a fruit), a 8.0mp camera with wide angle lens and LEICA lens, their IPOD touch with 32gb memory, their international passport, their Armani sunglasses or Ray-Ban aviators and every other thing that they can fit into their hand carry bags.



They went to more places and more countries than anyone when they are in their 20's. They can popped out in China one day and appears the next week in Australia. They can be a French who speaks perfect Chinese putonghua who lives in Shanghai. They can appear in Hong Kong this moment, be off to Paris and holiday the next month in Colombia with their friends. They have friends all over the globe. They can travel to Japan alone and will still be able to survive all by themselves for their holiday without any problems, alone. Thanks to the internet, MSN and FB.

One such example would be Nicolekiss who is a world traveller and famous Malaysia blogger, who likes to blogs about her journey and experiences. Another example of a famous blogger, Xiaxue, who choose to live her life from the rat race and still be able to buy her new Sony VIAO notebook that costs a bomb!

They no longer talks deeply in those smooth pre-english era conversations, rather they MSN, SMS and message each other by using internet, Facebook and they loyal faithful mobile. They uses acronyms such as AFK, LMAO, ROFL, BBFN, gtg, TTYL and et cetera. They are multilinguals and be able to speak in various languages from French, Spanish, Italians, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, English, Cantonese, Tagalog and much more.

They are good looking, they are trendy, they live their life to the fullest, they enjoys the unknown, they are fun and witty, they likes travelling, they loves freedom, they are fashionable and most importantly they are truly an enjoyable companion.



They belongs to Nouveau Hermitism.



I believe no one really understands how powerful this emerging group of youth are. They are the future. They are the next generation of consumers who thinks and reasons differently. They are no longer being "trapped" into the rat race like the previous baby boomers or generation X. They do not NEED to climb the career ladder, stabbing everyone in the back, pressuring themselves to get that promotion or work that 12 hours daily 6 days a week. They understands and feels, better about the world, society and life more than any other generations. Thanks to internet again.



They are NH, Nouveau Hermit!








Acronyms explains:

Nouveau Hermitism = An emerging trend of youthful tech savvy kids who opts out of rat race and live their life through online trading and file sharing.

NH = Tech savvy kids who opts out of rat race and live their life through online trading and file sharing.

MMORPG = Massive multiplayers online role playing game

WOW = World of Warcraft

IGN = In game name

FB = Facebook

AFK = Away from keyboard

BBFN = Bye bye for now

LMAO = Laughing my ass off

ROFL = Rolling on the floor

TTYL = Talk to you later

gtg = got to go

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