Analyst, 15, Creates Storm After Trashing Twitter

Barence writes "A 15-year-old schoolboy has become an overnight sensation after writing a report on teenagers' media habits for analysts Morgan Stanley. Intern Matthew Robson was asked to write a report about his friends' use of technology during his work experience stint with the firm's media analysts. The report was so good the firm decided to publish it, and it generated 'five or six' times more interest than Morgan Stanley's regular reports. The schoolboy poured scorn on Twitter, claiming that teenagers 'realize that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless.' He also claimed games consoles are replacing mobile phones as the way to chat with friends."

Nice disclaimer

[salesgeek]

From the article: Morgan Stanley points out that Robson's assessment of the media landscape doesn't have the statistical rigour of its regular reports.

Re:where is the report?

[HidingMyName]

Here is a copy [telegraph.co.uk]

Re:Relativity

[Kokuyo]

Your being fifteen must have been a looooooooooong time ago if you truly think 'icky' would enter a boy's mind at this age when asked about girls.

Dude, fifteen year old girls have BREASTS, remember that. ;)

But I concur, if such an article has much more audience than your usual content you should really start thinking about changing your usual content.

Re:Where's the Report?

[jonbryce]

The report can be found here
http://media.ft.com/cms/c3852b2e-6f9a-11de-bfc5-00144feabdc0.pdf [ft.com]

Re:Relativity

[DNS-and-BIND]

When I was 15, I was in the 8th grade and a lot of girls didn't have breasts yet. I barely had hair on my balls at that point, and having sex with a girl was something far, far away. I remember me and a friend of mine used to shoplift condoms from K-Mart (repressed sexuality expressing itself the only way we knew how) and he gave some to the coolest kid in school. I saw him later that day showing them off to his friends, as if he were some big guy who had sex so often that he needed a 12-pack of condoms. This was in 1985 BTW. Please stop assuming that today's attitudes are somehow universal or have any relevance beyond the here and now.

Re:Games consoles?

[greenreaper]

I'm probably not the best person to ask that, being the admin of a site for people who roleplay and dress up as cartoon-style animal characters. :-) Call me cuckoo, but I'm living the dream . . . *munches puffs*

Re:Relativity

[hoggoth]

> Isaac Newton published many of the founding principles of physics aged 17 and heÂd already written a great deal before that, even before he was 15 in fact.

Isaac Newton was born in 1643. Newton developed the generalized binomial theorem, his first work, in 1665 when he was 22 years old but didn't publish any of it for many years. He published his most important and famous work, the "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" in 1687 when he was 44 years old.

Not 15 or 17.

In fact.