Time Magazine Article on Millenials

Not really. Social media is how people network nowadays. The old system of getting a job based on who you know is still around, after all.

Alas.

Social media is just the modern day form of having pen pals in my opinion. It helps build a more interconnected society which isn't a bad thing.

edited 25th May '13 5:52:52 PM by Kostya

Pen pals wasn't quite as all permeating as it is now but. I think that's the important difference. Letter writing was fairly limited in it's application. Every aspect of life's has been affected by social media. Not necessarily for the best. Disconnection isn't always a bad thing either.

Plus people would rarely send you a chain letters glush on about the supposedly amusing things that their cat did.

edited 25th May '13 6:19:41 PM by joeyjojo

Actually, it's the modern day equivalent of the old rolodex cards, which used to be the way people would keep track of their professional and personal contacts. Next time an older person complains about the time you spend on social media, ask them knowingly if they would be willing to throw away their rolodex ;)

I own Rolodex. It never tries to poke me it never tries to sent pictures of its cat. It doesn't sell my personal details to big business. Can you say the same about my face and space book?

To be frank, I think the author of that article spent to much time on social justice Tumblrs.

So who thinks by the time our, (most of the people here I imagine) generation becomes parents were going to be congratulated for making it through the recession?

Maybe not...ah well.

Considering our children will be battling mutants in a post-apocalyptic nightmare world I don't think they would care.

No, there going to be fighting against each other over money in a Mad Max world.

I think I just worked out why Millennials are so shameless about splashing their personal lives all over the Internet.

We are not a generation that ever really had privacy.

Helicopter parenting became the accepted norm in the 80s what with stories of child preying drug dealers and paedophiles in the news. In adulthood few young people can afford to move out to a place of their own and those who can will have to look at share-housing. And we haven't even touched on government and businesses mass surveillance practices

Is it any wonder the value of discretion and modesty has been lost to people who have spend their whole life under watch?

An article from The Economist on how we've turned out in Britain: Politics and the young: Generation Boris

Boris Johnson is not what I would consider a liberal .

Liberal as in Classical Liberial, Libertarian.

Even that's pushing it.

He's 'Moderate'. Centralist. He occupies the safe creamy middle ground of the political spectrum.

edited 12th Jun '13 9:20:32 AM by joeyjojo

FOR THE FUCKING WIN

So that the other day and love it.

That was very cathartic.

I think I spent ever seconds fist-pumping and going "FUCK YEAH".

The opportunities of our parents, colliding with our own lack of opportunities, creates a greater impression of laziness than historically. Our parents can afford to keep us around, and we can't afford to leave. Certainly my case currently, and really my only two options that will get me out of this house in early 2014 are going to teach English in Japan or joining the army/navy

Point is, those of us fortunate enough to have parents able to still support us are fools not to take advantage of it, and often have no other choice.

Relevant article. It basically states that a lot of the trend pieces about Millenial college hookup culture only applies to wealthy white attractive heterosexuals, and don't really apply to minorities or poorer white people.

edited 23rd Jul '13 7:40:00 AM by wuggles

Link broken.

edited 22nd Jul '13 8:59:30 PM by joeyjojo

Broken link = backspace over what the parser did to a long URL. It looks like this: "- " usually in the middle of what's obviously supposed to be a contiguous word.

edited 23rd Jul '13 12:53:55 AM by Pykrete