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- liftedmedia, on 05/16/2008, -5/+176"Although you'll find Gen Y'ers obsessing over the latest episode of 'The Hills',"
I'm completely offended by that sentence. - SteelChicken, on 05/16/2008, -14/+96Gen Y is responsible for atrocities like MySpace. Not impressed.
- nahsrocketeer75, on 05/16/2008, -2/+69I'm feeling old, which only makes sense given that my generation is so old it doesn't even have a cool letter name attached to it.
- Accolade1, on 05/16/2008, -3/+66If I ever become a Y generation grandfather, would my grand children's generation name cycle back to A?
- iloveazngurlzs, on 05/16/2008, -2/+50What happend to Gen X? Weren't we supposed to do something? I don't remember what it was, and i'm sure most of you other X'ers don't remember, but i know we were supposed to accomplish something.
- Juicey, on 05/16/2008, -1/+34We put up with shody parents and fought against up-tight, worthless bureaucrats. We identified "the man" and then told him to ***** Off. We made what the previous generation invented fun so that Gen Y could claim it was their's all along.
Only thing Gen Y gave us was Britney Spears, no music on MTV and music that combines rock and rap into some kind of retarded dance-rock mix that employs people showing off their vocal talents on songs they never wrote.
We're also somewhat bitter.... - YuriSakazaki, on 05/16/2008, -11/+41You're why no one likes old people :( Cry more.
- orlyfactor, on 05/16/2008, -2/+30I can't wait until Generation F U.
- str3ama, on 05/16/2008, -3/+30lol I blame the success of reality TV on your generation. It's partially our fault for it being started in the first place, but the fact that it continues to do well (especially channels like MTV which went from music videos to non-stop reality shows) wholly on your generation. Yea it's harsh, but damn you whipper snappers - especially you're parents who coddle you guys and make it all the more harder for everyone over the age of majority with censorship of films, movies and tv shows.
- Qong, on 05/16/2008, -6/+30That was a very interesting read. My comment on your site wouldn't go through, so I'll leave it here:
I liked the article, but I'm not quite so bullish on Generation Y myself, at least not as much as some of the people leaving comments; being that I'm a part of them, an early adopter if you will, as I was born in early '85, I realize that the majority of them are still just children and don't have any real world experience; so I certainly give them some leeway there.
They are also being marketed to, and consuming what is marketed to them, at an enormous rate. I live in New York and have several close friends in advertising, Generation Y isn't exactly hard to tap into. Of course, I don't know the exact spending patterns of Generation Y compared to past generations, but I would be more than comfortable in saying that they are mass consumers, as they have been for all of their lives.
Being a member of Generation Y and living in a developed country is winning life's lottery. They haven't had to worry about anything for the entirety of their life thus far. Their biggest worry is whether Mom and Dad are going to buy them the newest iPod.
My feelings may come from the fact that my family has only been in the United States for a couple of generations now, and that my parents still had an extremely strong work ethic that they instilled in me. My family has several war hero's, my Uncles were all involved in war's, including veterans of D-Day. I have a great respect for military service and public service in general; something that most members of Generation Y seem to be missing.My parents were also quite old when they had me; so perhaps I would have turned out like a normal member of Generation Y had my parents been young, say they were early members of Generation X, things could have been different then. - Wargalas, on 05/16/2008, -6/+26Yeah yeah, I'll believe they'll "change the web" when I see it. With so many who can't even spell correctly, who whine about when things get rough and how the government should take care of their woes, I doubt we'll be seeing much from them. Prove me wrong and work at it kids. Until then, I'm not impressed with what I've seen so far.
- jrbrewin, on 05/16/2008, -7/+27an article by a gen-y'er about how gen-y is so fantastic and amazing. i hate to be the sceptic, but every generation says the same thing, and really, when you look back, how have things change.
we still have war, we still have natural disasters, corruption, pollution, and all kinds of bad ***** in the world. will gen-y will be changing that? - str3ama, on 05/16/2008, -6/+24heheh by the time Generation Z inherits the world, Generation X and Y would have decimated it.
If Gen Y is going to change the web, just realize that everything before Gen Y created it and mastered it. - aladrin, on 05/16/2008, -0/+16Every generation changes everything. It's called 'progress'. Might as well create a post about Gen Y changing cars, or televisions... It's going to happen no matter what. Some for the good, some for the bad... All change.
And every generation thinks that they're going to be the one to fix everything. They think that right up until they actually start trying to change things and realize that it's not easy, especially since no 2 people agree 100% on everything. - Aros, on 05/16/2008, -0/+16Nothing, that's the end of it.
- UnglueD, on 05/16/2008, -7/+23Sure we're lazy. But our generation will be the ones forced to fix the problems the previous generations, yours included, have left us.
Thanks for:
- Climate change
- Decreasing value of the dollar
- Ridiculous spending
- Social security
- National debt
- Not coming up with any alternative to oil
/rant - jrbrewin, on 05/16/2008, -0/+15MTV's shows are not based in reality. they're based in a twisted dimension where it's cool to inheret a lot of money, and be a self centered, self-obsessive bitch.
- navster15, on 05/16/2008, -5/+20But isn't Gen Y also responsible for Facebook and Digg? I think you're selling our achievements a little short.
- kingmanic, on 05/16/2008, -3/+18As the very leading edge of Gen Y I think a lot of the bull about us is unfounded. Just as every generation in power has concerns about those coming up behind them, the boomers are concerned with the Gen Y generation. For the boomers, their parents were concerned with their rock and roll music and hippy and beatnick trends. For Gen X it was the slacker mentality, listlessness, angst and lack of jobs. For Gen Y it's our attentions spans, Video games, internet, constant connectivity, coddled, slefish etc... Like generation before us the concerns will be unfounded.
The real truth is the boomers are the most selfish and coddled generation. With wealth and prosperity born on the backs of the WWII generation. Gen Y will be the ones to pick up the pieces of the aftermath of the boomers. The ecological damage, the economic shifts, the declining infrastructure of the nation and the deemphasis on what made the Boomers parents great. Duty, self sacrifice, and grand vision. Gen Y probably lacks these too but we have to deal with what the boomers have left for us. - CompIsMyRx, on 05/16/2008, -0/+15What's more likely is that this whole Generation {name} thing is a giant, overarching stereotype. Not everyone who belongs to "Generation Y" is how the article made them out to be, just as not everyone who is {insert race/gender/ethnicity/social status here} has all the characteristics of that group. The only thing I have to disagree with you about is the "winning life's lottery". "Generation Y" is going to have to pay the tab the previous generation has left for it. Global warming, oil dependency, the mountain range of debt; this is all now the problem of "Generation Y", and developed countries having the greatest amount of these problems, it's not going to be a picnic.
- antoniuk, on 05/16/2008, -30/+44Gen Y is nothing more than a bunch of consumer driven whores. Those before these lazy undisciplined brats created all they use and profit off their ignorance. Gen Y is the laziest generation ever to come out of America.
- toxicityj, on 05/16/2008, -1/+15The worst part about being gen-y, is that there are those of us that are capable of doing something with our lives. capable of improving on what previous generations have accomplished. But we're overshadowed by what's seen more. the dumb blond bitch who sips starbucks (but can't spell it) while she watches mtv and "lol omg" 's at every scripted "funny" thing that douchebag just said on "reality" TV.
- banieldowen, on 05/16/2008, -4/+17It's a great article, and a true one. Gen-Y is the generation that is going to be replacing retiring baby boomers. We've seen our boomer (and some Gen-x) parents turn into workaholics, we've seen them fired, and we see our parents not being happy at work. Gen-X has been a big pusher of work/life/family balance, but hasn't gotten too far with boomers still in charge. Gen-y will change all of this.
- LiquidShield, on 05/16/2008, -0/+13I'm sorry...
- thespudmall, on 05/16/2008, -13/+26Watch as Gen Y litters their fail-aids all over the globe.
- kamau84, on 05/16/2008, -1/+13I stopped reading when she substituted 'comprised' for 'compromised'.
- Jambi, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12Well, a lot of you ended up founding some of the more powerful companies in existence today. Google, for example.
- StaticThunder, on 05/16/2008, -0/+11Hey Gen Y, don't talk about it, don't let the media pigeonhole you, do what you're going to do. I'm sick of hearing these talking heads prattle about all these wonderful things you're going to do. Just make it happen already.
- RudeTurnip, on 05/16/2008, -1/+12Digg is a product of a Generation X'er, not that it matters.
- chambana, on 05/16/2008, -0/+11supposed to be pathetic and watch the 90s go by without building anything strong enough to save us from the 00s
- KayMan2k, on 05/16/2008, -0/+11Ummm.. Since when has the Web *NOT* been in a constantly changing and evolving state?
- Flamancot, on 05/16/2008, -0/+10"Being a member of Generation Y and living in a developed country is winning life's lottery. They haven't had to worry about anything for the entirety of their life thus far. Their biggest worry is whether Mom and Dad are going to buy them the newest iPod."
While this is most certainly true, that in the history of human civilization we Y'ers certainly have struck gold, I'd like to point out that "not having to worry about anything" is as much a curse as a blessing. Welcome to existentialism 101 here... Generation Y is better at distracting themselves from our human condition: an inherently bleak and purposeless existence here on earth - but we're also most susceptible to this particular form of depression and anguish. While we spend countless hours reading the news, playing on facebook, immersing ourselves in the widest and most easily accesible network of media and entertainment to ever exist, we are brought ever closer to the realization that we spend all our time being entertained.
This is not something that is immediately alarming though, most of us have nothing better to do. Like the article mentions work is simply a place - very few of us will have "careers" in the sense our parents did. We wander the landscape of entertainment looking to fill up our time - but as for endeavors that we recognize as *meaningful* (like that pit of your soul feeling of righteousness that comes so easily to our parents and grandparents) we struggle to identify any. Even with Obama, who has mobilized hundreds of thousands of us and given us a little 'hope' in the political process, I think we struggle to even identify that as meaningful.
So yeah, we don't have anything to worry about. But that's just another way of saying we don't have anything to care about (really). We don't nearly as much religion to infuse meaning (most of us have none at all it seems), we don't have any collective zeitgeist at all outside of increasingly widening circles of friends and social networks. We weren't born into any believable cosmological framework, we are psychological wanderers.
Maybe it would have been better to be born a quaker in 1830...? A case could be made that as far as quality of life goes, the unquestioning quaker might have the upper hand. Still, being typical of this generation of ours, I wouldn't trade places with anyone. - Hockey13, on 05/16/2008, -2/+12Why does everyone always have to give their opinion on why this generation is ***** than their own? Why can't we all just realize that every generation is essentially the same, and these notions of superiority and inferiority come with the inherent, and unfounded, belief that "we" are somehow "better" than "them." So many people here on Digg claim to be proponents of science and the scientific method, yet they accept and spew out anecdotal evidence like Fox News.
Yes the kids who were born in 1995 have never experienced a world without the internet, but so what? Most of us never experienced a world without television or radio or telephones. It's called technological progress. I would be astonished if my kids don't use the holocube to connect to the intersphere. What kind of idiot doesn't know how to use a holocube? - neems25, on 05/16/2008, -3/+13Reality TV = Only crappy thing that Gen Y likes....What's even crappier is that Reality TV is scripted....Hills=*****!
- Qong, on 05/16/2008, -1/+10Good points all around.
I don't see marketing to Gen Y being a difficult task, and I don't work in advertising myself; it just seems that way to me, simply from looking around and listening to friends in advertising talk about work. Every young person you see has cell phones, ipods, laptops, computers, televisions, cars, etc. They are consumers of the highest level, so clearly someone is getting to them.
It's sad because Gen Y as a whole is completely contradictory at the same time. They're the people writing on their blogs and websites complaining about how the environment is being hurt, complaining about global warming, talking about human rights; while at the same time they are a huge part of the problem.
I don't know, maybe I just don't fit in with my generation. - synthpop, on 05/16/2008, -0/+9those damm kids, GET OFF MY LAWN!
- ShempRider, on 05/16/2008, -1/+10Gen X Slackers is the proper term. I've done a damn good job.
- Tr33fiddy, on 05/16/2008, -2/+11Given Generation Y's propensite for salivating over Apple products, I think a better name would have been "Generation i"
- ryllharu, on 05/16/2008, -2/+10Don't be so quick to make such sweeping generalizations.
The older of us (Generation Y) did not grow up with the internet. It was either hardly accessible, or consisted of BBS via a 2400 baud connection. It would be far more accurate to say that Gen Y grew up *together* with the internet. Access increased with our awareness of the world around us, speed and quality increased as we aged. The majority of the websites around (after those existed) were very crude and "childlike," becoming more sophisticated along side us.
Do we have shorter attention spans? Probably. Some of us only look for mindless entertainment, while others are only looking for more and more information (hence the popularity of sites like Digg).
A lot of sites slam Generation Y for wanting to know "Why" something needs to get done rather than just do it. If anything, that displays the need for us to understand where we stand in the large corporate machines. Instead of being a mindless drone, we want to feel like we are *part* of something, and want to know where we fit into the whole organization. It's all part of that social connection that we all supposedly crave.
Everything you wrote is correct about the trailing edge of Generation Y. The youngest *did* grow up already constantly connected. They didn't get the mix of connectivity and reality. There's no "analog" to them. But that's less of a generational thing, and more of an environmental one. If the last of the Boomers and older Gen X'ers want to coddle their children, they will end up that way. Generation Y wants to explore, and if you keep them shut off on the basis of keeping them "safe," they will be more vulnerable to advertising, trends, and any other stimuli they get. - brstilson, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8This article describes just about every young generation since the boomers. Remember when our parents were all progressive and had social consciences? They got tired of caring and sold out, just like Gen Y will.
- spoonyfork, on 05/16/2008, -2/+10The good news is Generation Z will get to include you in the blame too when you don't fix those problems either.
- friday04, on 05/16/2008, -2/+10I find it amusing that there are people that really believe that the corporate culture of America is going to bend to the will of a newly-graduated kid demanding a different kind of work environment because of the self-developed ADD from too many connection points.
"I'm 23 and I'm online all day and night through various methods. I think email is slow and I demand the use of IM or SMS. This company doesn't have a Facebook group?!? We need to start one immediately or I won't work here. Also, please understand that at any given time during what you consider a 'normal work week' you may or may not be able to find me. I like to work my own hours on my own terms and don't want to be hassled by your 'rules' for work hours. Please make sure that the break room has an Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and a good supply of Red Bull. And why we're at it, I'll take a company car and $100,000 even though I have no experience doing anything other than hacking a MySpace page."
I'm sure someone with your qualifications will have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the janitorial or fast-food industries.
P.S. Not I didn't say Gen-Y. Each generation has their own lazy morons that believe they're entitled to something for nothing. Usually life is pretty good at kicking the ***** out of those people and bringing them back down to Earth. - DoubtingThomas, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7"Probably because Generation Y'ers are first generation to get web browsers that didn't use FTP to load web pages"
You really have no idea what you are talking about, do you? Browsers have NEVER used FTP as a standard transport for HTML content. Never, ever. Not even lynx.
"Beauty of the web is that us 'Youngers' are more experienced than you old-timers"
Obliviously not based on your prior statement. - CompIsMyRx, on 05/16/2008, -1/+8The younger generation has always been a disappointment to their elders. Always.
- headzoo, on 05/16/2008, -2/+9Who created the Internet? Who created the Web? Who created HTML, JavaScript, Flash, etc? Not Gen Y. In fact, what is Gen Y's contribution to WWW?
The only contribution made by Gen Y is that of a consumer. You're shaping the web _trends_ with your dollars, but it's still the generation before you that is making the innovations.
The only thing Gen Y is more experienced at is pointing and clicking. Most (Not so much the Digg crowd) Gen Y'ers have no clue how all this technology works. - thailand1972, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Warning: this article contains buzzwords and only negligible traces of actual content
- fkr3, on 05/16/2008, -1/+8By enabling you to message a bunch of people who pretend to care about what's happening in your life, as you sit on the toilet taking a *****!!
I don't think most people are working in fun workplaces regardless of their generation. The best anyone can hope for is to be working with fun people but at the end of the day you've got to make money and having fun takes second priority just like it does with every other generation. If generation Y hasn't figured that out yet they will when rent's due and nobody wants to pay them to play Wii and maintain their social networking presence.
The article kind of reads like a wish list fantasy world generation Y kids would like to live in. Maybe it'll be realised, but not until they start reaching executive positions. Until then wishing your workplace had fluorescent coloured beanbags and let you use 'fun' web 2.0 social whatevery sites as business tools is no different to previous generations wishing their workplace was more interesting. The only thing that's really changed is the technology. - xtinamo, on 05/16/2008, -1/+7Sorry, but your old ass is part of GenX.
- thelif, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6Gen B: God those guys didn't even have FIRE, we're going to turn this world upside down...
Gen C: Idiots going around on legs when we have WHEELS...
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Gen M(?): We're going to pwn those old geezers with our ELECTRICITY..
Technological advances != Superior generation
I'm born in '87 and I judge people based on whether they are individually an idiot, not generalize based on their age. There will be old people that are smarter than me and old people that don't know anything and young people that are brilliant compared to young people that are morons. - serif69, on 05/16/2008, -1/+7"Gen Y" has too broad an age range. Most of us in Gen Y are too old to be considered brats anymore. Yet we're lumped in with emo kids. *sigh*
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