Chinese Youth are big ol' interNERDS

chineseyouth_internet.jpg According to a presentation by MTV about youth and social networking in Asia, China is the only country where people actually have more ONLINE friends than offline friends. We guess that's not so surprising coming from the Land of 1,000 Internet Addiction Camps, but it still makes us want to go all Ogre on these kids. NERDS!!

On average, a Chinese youth has 139 friends, of which 13 he/she will call his/her BFF. As for the rest, 60 will be offline - probably friends from school or the neighborhood - and 66 will be from the world wide web.

A sign of how socially inept the new generation is? Or just pointing out how much online social networking has penetrated this country?

Source: Thomas Crampton

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I'm a loser nerd who posts on shanghaiist.

NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS!


I think I'm going to go find that DVD. I'll be most of these online addicts are...Chinese boys?

Yes. Nanhey, your glorious victorious day is not far off then. These emo/otaku/doll-loving boys will off themselves in their parent's rooms in front of teh computers and after that Nanheyangrouchuan's children shall inherit all of China.

The end.

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