Constant text messaging keeps Gen Y and their parents connected

“Straight to boogie and tequila.”

Farrah Aldjufrie, a senior at the University of Southern California, received that text message last week from her father who lives in Bali.

“He speaks broken English because he’s Indonesian,” Aldjufrie says. “He was asking me about my birthday, and I told him I was going out with some friends. That was his response.”

Aldjufrie, like many in Generation Y, constantly contacts her parents through text messaging, about five times a day to her mom, and every other day to her dad.

“It’s the easiest way to keep in contact with my dad because he lives so far away. I can send him a text message, and if it’s really late on his time, he can write me back when he gets up,” she says.

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