“Millennial Takeover” — Beginning of the End, or The Start of Something Good?

Millennials are unlike most generations of past, and have been attributed with more labels, clichés and stereotypes by generational experts than any other.

(Robert Fallon — Millennial Takeover, 2016)

For example, take a walk around a busy city and you’re bound to notice hordes of millennials scuffling about, thousands of them, who are incapable of eye contact as they physically can’t glance up from their cellphones for even a second, or so some say. I wonder whether they on their phone to gain information, which in reality is the secret ingredient to the pursuit of knowledge, social gain, the ability to stay current, and overall intelligence.

So, since we are all obsessed with becoming known and being in the know, doesn’t this zombie look actually have many positives? Millennials love information and consume it at an increasingly quick rate. Generations not familiar, and for that matter comfortable, with the new information age are now understanding the concept and power of it all. The most sought after information is “opinions”, and more specifically current opinions held by the public that can be used as market research.

Whatsgoodly, an anonymous social polling app, has collected the honest opinion of these millennials and collected 130 million data points from them.

These dudes just opened up Pandora’s Box when it comes to market research. Whatsgoodly has created a new tool/resource to gain custom stats from specific audiences. This has implications far past just college students as we need a real tool for authentic poll data in all industries.

A search-bar feature is directly connected to their database, which is now named the world’s largest and is the home for millions of specific percentages, stats, and insights that have never been so accessible.

I’m truly convinced this search bar will bring awareness, and value, to opinions and statistics, but also is a tool that can rehabilitate the injured perception of the millennial generation at both the local and nationwide level.

THE POWER OF INFORMATION

As a writer and millennial myself, having full access to custom stats is beyond useful, it’s legendary, and oh so powerful. In the past, I have never been able to choose which stat I wanted to explore, as seasoned companies were the only ones capable of financing the highly-priced survey campaigns that still dominate the industry today.

The industry is desperately fighting to find a solution to non-incentivized polling. With today’s technology, there is no reason polling shouldn’t include the capability to search and precisely know the exact percent of students who want Donald Trump to win this 2016 election, without paying thousands $$$.

Whatsgoodly decided it was time to step up, and developed their new opinion search bar. They are putting the immensely powerful knowledge of aggregated opinions back into the hands of everyday Americans, as it rightfully should.

In my opinion, Whatsgoodly is taking a step in the opposite direction of others, yet it’s the correct one. Cataloguing, analyzing, and updating the poll results will highlight both positive and negative trends in our own society, others, and across the world.

I have a feeling that in the very near future, we will all be wondering how the hell we couldn’t instantly understand people’s opinions on anything as easy as we can look up the capital of Mozambique on a search.

Whatsgoodly CEO and Founder Adam Halper, recently said, “In just under a year we’ve collected more survey responses from millennials than all of the past surveys ever taken in the United States combined. We want to give a voice to college students. Young people are often sensationalized in the media, so now we’re offering the public the ability to get stats and insights on how this demographic actually thinks and feels.”

Halper and Whatsgoodly have generously offered up their data so that writers, students, and entire communities can become more aware of what makes their area unique. This generous gesture of community can’t be exaggerated enough considering the monetary value, and profit margin, of this collected opinion data.

A NEW FUTURE

As the first-ever “digital native” generation, millennials have already begun to dramatically increase their influence on the behavior and opinions of other demographics — leaving the older gentlemen huffing and puffing, as well as scrambling, to keep pace with the younger and more nimble millennials.

Especially with the millennials numbers way up. millennials recently surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living generation in the United States, and their influence is booming like 4th of July.

How millennials think, do, and buy is now seen as the driving force behind today’s buying trends, which have a direct influence on generations both younger and older.

Whatsgoodly’s Search offers a predictive glimpse into future trends by highlighting the opinions of millennials today. Now, anyone can visit Whatsgoodly.com and enter a search term like, “Texas Rangers,” “best Amazon Prime show,” or, “sexual assault,” to search poll data directly from the app.

Millennials are a generation fueled by an unprecedented technological drive that is bringing about exponential change. Stereotypes and stigmas should include characteristics such as informed, innovative, logical, independent, and revolutionary.

Rather than today’s grouping of millennials into a category of time-wasting, entitled, slacking lazy ass-holes.

Innovation like Whatsgoodly’s opinion search-bar is encouraging to me, and a great example to other generations. Overconsumption of drugs didn’t fry the Electronic-Music-Filled minds of millennials like many thought…if anything it sparked their minds.

A millennials mind is filled to the brim with globalized knowledge and is the main pusher behind our newly connected world we are seeing flourish. If other companies have the valor, fortitude, and courage to follow suit, it will force the skeptics to adapt to and assimilate to the ways of the mysterious millennial.

As Halper described above, I truly believe this is an opportunity to switch and flip the frame of mind older generations refuse to let go of. So, how will young adults gain the necessary respect in media and society? Information.

Coincidentally, information is exactly what the Whatsgoodly search-bar provides, at zero cost. Thank Jesus.

Explore the new Whatsgoodly search-bar and for the first time know the opinions of millennials for yourself. The Whatsgoodly Search Bar can be found on their home webpage, http://whatsgoodly.com/

Knowledge is power,

J. Robert Fallon III