Why are millennials hated and zoomers loved?

[Anonymous]

That anyone alive has issues with the greatest generation just needs to remember that they saved the world from fascism and tyranny. They showed up when called upon to protect their homeland and defend freedom. The reason you can write on this anonymous form is partly due to their bravery and sacrifice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That anyone alive has issues with the greatest generation just needs to remember that they saved the world from fascism and tyranny. They showed up when called upon to protect their homeland and defend freedom. The reason you can write on this anonymous form is partly due to their bravery and sacrifice.

And yet no one seems to care about the young men and women who fought against Al Qaeda and ISIS. This is our country’s longest war and it’s primarily fought by the generation Boomers like to call snowflakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That anyone alive has issues with the greatest generation just needs to remember that they saved the world from fascism and tyranny. They showed up when called upon to protect their homeland and defend freedom. The reason you can write on this anonymous form is partly due to their bravery and sacrifice.

Nobody here is talking about greatest generation. A few PP mislabeled silent generation as greatest generation. Btw, greatest generation were overtly sexist and racist, so they had their issues as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

Yes! It was so much better then. Everything went downhill when it was opened up to everybody. I always tell my sister (also an old Millennial) that Boomers on Facebook is how we got Trump.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

Yes! It was so much better then. Everything went downhill when it was opened up to everybody. I always tell my sister (also an old Millennial) that Boomers on Facebook is how we got Trump.

To clarify -- being an old Millennial means FB wasn't available outside of Harvard until the year after I graduated college. But anyone with a .edu email address could join, and my college class was one of the first where email and having a computer was required. So it was still very limited to college students or very recent grads. I joined because I found out a bunch of people still in college and from my graduating class were catching up with each other on there and I got FOMO. The only people on there were young enough to understand that you can't believe everything you read on the Internet. Zuckerberg is a greedy MF'er. I'm ashamed he is a fellow old Millennial.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

Yes! It was so much better then. Everything went downhill when it was opened up to everybody. I always tell my sister (also an old Millennial) that Boomers on Facebook is how we got Trump.

100%! They don’t have the means to discern the crap like we do. Actually, thinking back now Facebook was open to high school students too when I was in college, but it still felt so innocent because nobody outside of our “bubble” could access it. I always joke that the day my mom found Facebook is the day that this world went to hell. I strongly believe the come up of social media is the biggest downfall of this country.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

Yes! It was so much better then. Everything went downhill when it was opened up to everybody. I always tell my sister (also an old Millennial) that Boomers on Facebook is how we got Trump.

100%! They don’t have the means to discern the crap like we do. Actually, thinking back now Facebook was open to high school students too when I was in college, but it still felt so innocent because nobody outside of our “bubble” could access it. I always joke that the day my mom found Facebook is the day that this world went to hell. I strongly believe the come up of social media is the biggest downfall of this country.

+1

Boomers be gullible AF.

[Anonymous]

I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

[Anonymous]

Because we have worked with millennials and have seen for ourselves that they think everyone deserves a trophy for showing up. But they don't even show up on time.

Zoomers haven't entered the workforce yet, have they?
-gen x

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

Yes! It was so much better then. Everything went downhill when it was opened up to everybody. I always tell my sister (also an old Millennial) that Boomers on Facebook is how we got Trump.

I love it - Millennials are already at the “Back in my day we...” stage!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

[Anonymous]

As a Gen Xer this whole thread makes me laugh and for us cynics well done. Carry on! Carry on!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.