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Last summer, a college student named Cathryn Sloane managed to point both barrels of Internet professionals’ collective ire at herself through an article she wrote on NextGen Journal, entitled Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25. In the article, she advocates that her generation learned to use social media casually as it evolved and are therefore, as they now enter the workforce, the best choice for positions as social media managers. Backlash from the 26+ crowd was swift, and rightfully so. Many were quick to use her own rationale to point out, because of her age, her looming obsolescence. Others shared [...]