Why are millennials hated and zoomers loved?

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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!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

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You'd think that with the billion articles talking about Millennials that people would learn to spell it by now. But here we are.

- Offended 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.

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

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

Not only a student email, but a college email from certain colleges. Then it was just fun. Once they opened it up to everyone, it became stupid.

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I mean, someone born in 1965 is the youngest Boomer, and yet is 56 years old. That’s fairly old.

FWIW Mitch McConnell is 78. I’d look more to his peers as the issue.

McConnell is silent generation. It is these folks and the oldest boomers that have screwed us up.

TBH it seems like millennials care more about this generation stuff. It just wasn’t named in Gen X. We just side eyed everyone, or mostly didn’t bother because we were trying to function and pay rent. It’s all a bit nitpicky.

People wrote articles about how millennials were destroying everything when some of them were still in college.

That’s cyclic as well. It really does happen every generation.

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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!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

Not only a student email, but a college email from certain colleges. Then it was just fun. Once they opened it up to everyone, it became stupid.

“They” being the millennials who created it. This monster’s on you all.

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The whole millenial whine summed up by op:
"Why don't you love me! Why do you love my younger brother more! It's unfair! Life is unfair! I are the one that made me this way, it is not my fault, nothing is my fault!"

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I mean, someone born in 1965 is the youngest Boomer, and yet is 56 years old. That’s fairly old.

FWIW Mitch McConnell is 78. I’d look more to his peers as the issue.

McConnell is silent generation. It is these folks and the oldest boomers that have screwed us up.

TBH it seems like millennials care more about this generation stuff. It just wasn’t named in Gen X. We just side eyed everyone, or mostly didn’t bother because we were trying to function and pay rent. It’s all a bit nitpicky.

People wrote articles about how millennials were destroying everything when some of them were still in college.

That’s cyclic as well. It really does happen every generation.

Please show me where they said that boomers or Gen X did things like ruin the real estate market, the birth rate, the diamond market, the paper napkin market, caused the student loan crisis, and did all this because they spent too much money on things like avocado toast. And the whole time were unjustifiably whiney about job prospects (even though rate of underemployment was at an all time high thanks to a long-term crappy economy).

I do believe that all generations have had to deal with hard world events, but in recent memory millennials got it the worst and at the same time were blamed for it.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole millenial whine summed up by op:
"Why don't you love me! Why do you love my younger brother more! It's unfair! Life is unfair! I are the one that made me this way, it is not my fault, nothing is my fault!"

Gaslighting.

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Anonymous wrote:Zoomers or boomers?

Boomers are seen as selfish, former hippie "I got mine (to hell with you)" types. They ruined the planet. Hypocirtes who were all for "peace", then flipped as long as they can collect their social security.

Gen X were latchkey kids, fending for themselves, while both their parents worked hard and often - as Gen X will do.

Millenials are going to change the world for the better, I have no problem with them. They are educated and speak out, for the better.

My beef is with the "Greatest" generation - who are oblivious. They are reaping all the benefits of economy flukes and timing, while not paying it forward, but feeling supremely entitled. They bought a house for nothing ($30k in the hot areas in 1963), but think Gen X is "rich" for buying a house (at today's prices), without any help. Eff that. No one gave Gen X anything, for the most part.

Rich people, with generational wealth, also do not have my sympathy.

Most of the Greatest Generation has been dead for decades. If alive, they are between 100-120 years old! You really know that many people that age to be able to generalize that way?

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All I know is that I keep running into a bunch of people in their 20s who believe that a few google searches on a topic makes them an expert on said topic.

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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!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

Not only a student email, but a college email from certain colleges. Then it was just fun. Once they opened it up to everyone, it became stupid.

“They” being the millennials who created it. This monster’s on you all.

Zuck is a douche, but it’s not our fault you’re all stupid enough to vote for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:All I know is that I keep running into a bunch of people in their 20s who believe that a few google searches on a topic makes them an expert on said topic.

LOL ok. And yet Boomers are the ones most likely to share disinformation.

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Zoomers are still teens or very young adults, so it's hard to say how they will turn out. They may be just as bad as Millennials in time.
I will say that I think Zoomers have it worse than either of the previous two generations. Their childhoods were marred by post-9-11 anxiety, their teen years had the pressures caused by burgeoning social media, and their young adulthoods will be scarred from the COVID year of isolation and the resulting implosion of the economy.
They've also seen firsthand that the pillars that have held up society (political leaders, police, religious leaders etc.) are very flawed.
I think it will be a very isolated and anxiety-ridden generation.

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It is so funny that Millenials have beef with the Boomers, with the Greatest Generation, with the Silent Generation, with gen X, and now with Zoomers.
Which I thought were generation Z, but ok, everything must have a snazzy name!
Is there a generation you Millenials do not have a beef with?

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Anonymous wrote:It is so funny that Millenials have beef with the Boomers, with the Greatest Generation, with the Silent Generation, with gen X, and now with Zoomers.
Which I thought were generation Z, but ok, everything must have a snazzy name!
Is there a generation you Millenials do not have a beef with?

You’re mixing that up, hon. Boomers have a problem with everyone.