Post by amaruq on Jun 14, 2017 11:28:05 GMT -8
The generation conversion has come up a few times around me and I have a hard time relating to either of my bookends; mainly feeling like a mix of the two.
1987: I'm from somewhat of a gap between X and Y, compounded partially by a small town upbringing (slower to adapt to technology). I've noticed that similarly-aged peers and I tend to divide our lives into pre- and post-internet. We can remember our childhood before the net which was not unlike the childhood of the generation(s) before us, yet we still spent formative years with AltaVista/Yahoo/Ask Jeeves, chatrooms, Geocities, MSN Messenger, etc.
Our family didn't have a computer until nearly my high school years and even then it wasn't used for much more than MS Paint, Encarta, WordPerfect, and Quicken. The internet wouldn't find us until a year or two after. Modern social media -- one of the items often used to demarcate Gen Y, or Millennials -- wasn't a thing until I was well into my undergrad.
As to the article and what it states about Gen Yers, it's true enough that there was enormous pressure to "go get an education" after high school, that I schedule most things, and that I don't live to work. The suggestions that "{I}* have been told over and over again that {I am} special, and {I} expect the world to treat {me} that way," or that I "prefer...a lot of hand holding and accolades" are not so applicable.
*Had to use curvy brackets because square ones italicize everything...
1987: I'm from somewhat of a gap between X and Y, compounded partially by a small town upbringing (slower to adapt to technology). I've noticed that similarly-aged peers and I tend to divide our lives into pre- and post-internet. We can remember our childhood before the net which was not unlike the childhood of the generation(s) before us, yet we still spent formative years with AltaVista/Yahoo/Ask Jeeves, chatrooms, Geocities, MSN Messenger, etc.
Our family didn't have a computer until nearly my high school years and even then it wasn't used for much more than MS Paint, Encarta, WordPerfect, and Quicken. The internet wouldn't find us until a year or two after. Modern social media -- one of the items often used to demarcate Gen Y, or Millennials -- wasn't a thing until I was well into my undergrad.
As to the article and what it states about Gen Yers, it's true enough that there was enormous pressure to "go get an education" after high school, that I schedule most things, and that I don't live to work. The suggestions that "{I}* have been told over and over again that {I am} special, and {I} expect the world to treat {me} that way," or that I "prefer...a lot of hand holding and accolades" are not so applicable.
*Had to use curvy brackets because square ones italicize everything...