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Marketers and the Growing Population In our world today we the teenagers of generation Y have become a target for the marketing business. We are the children of the Boomers and are growing up with vast opportunity (Gashgarian, 538). Now why must we be manipulated by marketers to fit into their stereotypical generation. Marketers think they know everything about us kids, from what we like to do on our pare time to what types of clothing we wear to how we act as growing teens of our generation. Marketers are in constant contact with generation Y to learn our new street terms. They feel if they can talk like us then they will boost their ads among teens (Street). Other marketers prefer to use a term called grassroots to grab viewers, which is composed of more realistic products. The main goal of a marketer is to manipulate us and by doing so they are reaching into the wallets, hearts, and minds of children for profit (Neuborne). My generation Y which is composed of roughly 60 million strong has changed the marketing business