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Israel's Generation Y 'brainwashed' by social networks

Founders of an Internet site dedicated to Israelis in their 20s say that today's young people are reluctant to grow up, concentrating on self-fulfillment rather than on responsibility.
Youths sit on a bench after a parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim at the Bialik Rogozin school in south Tel Aviv March 14, 2014. At Bialik Rogozin, children of migrant workers and refugees are educated alongside native Israelis. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (ISRAEL - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) - RTR3H3KV

“Each of our bloggers mirrors a specific group within this age profile. Therefore, the site is a looking glass of the generation,” said Tal Wolkowitz, a young entrepreneur who together with another entrepreneur, Yael Monrov, founded the maVeze site — a platform of blogs and content geared to the Y Generation (aged 20 to 35). Yael and Tal will celebrate the two-year anniversary of the site this summer.

“The site is very heterogeneous,” said Wolkowitz. Monrov added: "We have people from the right and the left, from the city and the periphery, we have straights and homosexuals and lesbians. Our entire society is represented here.”

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