Millenial Stereotypes

[saehanfox]

I'm sure most people on here are millenials including myself. What stereotypes of them apply to you?

I've heard of millenials described as lazy and "entitled." I've heard people say millenials are too lazy to cook. Those ones apply to me. I only cook on special occasions and hate cleaning up afterwards.
From my perspective, millenials are the educated but incompetent generation because most millenials have some type of degree but many struggle with actually doing the job.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

That millennials get rewarded for everything and get everything handed to them, even though most older people who say these things had their parents put them through college, or come from a time where education was cheap enough that they could have a part time job to pay for it or something. I work 40 hours a week and get paid pretty well, but I still live check to check pretty much and live at home with my mom, I do pay rent (an outrageous amount for what I get) and buy my own groceries, so it's more like my mom and family are roommates in a house. There was no way I could have gone to college, no way I could have afforded it or anything.

Another stereotype is that we don't know how to communicate outside of technology and are always on them, well I see older people CONSTANTLY on their phones, tablets and computers these days too. I mean, you can't even separate my grandma from her iPad, playing her casino games. XD But seriously, EVERYONE is constantly on their phones and devices because that's what everyone does, people didn't use to be on devices because THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEM. They still hid behind newspapers and watched too much of their two inch black and white tvs, it's not something new.

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

Older generations will always find ways to demean the younger generation. They've literally been doing this since at least the renaissance.

Spoiler: Nothing's Changed

Things you'll always hear about millennials include but are not limited to:

-Millennials demand instant gratification, despite the fact that anyone who's worked retail can tell you it's the younger customers who tend to be more patient.

-Millennials are spoiled and are given everything, despite the fact that they were given an economy that was put through the blender while the generations who usually put them down benefited from the biggest economical boom in US history.

-They're way too dependent on technology, y'know, in this technology driven world. You going to decline that artificial pacemaker Phil?

Spoiler: -They're too antisocial and always looking at their phones.

But I digress.

It's the same old garbage that every generation does - Millennials just have a particularly special flavor to it because they're the first generation of the information age and some people don't know how to let go. Millennials will do it too, just give it time.

 

[etsusho]

Another stereotype is that we don't know how to communicate outside of technology and are always on them, well I see older people CONSTANTLY on their phones, tablets and computers these days too. I mean, you can't even separate my grandma from her iPad, playing her casino games. XD But seriously, EVERYONE is constantly on their phones and devices because that's what everyone does, people didn't use to be on devices because THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEM. They still hid behind newspapers and watched too much of their two inch black and white tvs, it's not something new.

That's funny about your grandma. Old ladies love to gamble.
The older people I know struggle with technology or find a lot of it to be extraneous. My parents have never owned a computer and only had cells because I bought them for them.

 

[Stil]

Whats a millennial?

 

[Red Cat]

I'll take my entitlement and dependence on technology over the Baby Boomers' racism, sexism, and homophobia.

 

[etsusho]

And in the argument that Millennials are on their phones all the time... well, seeing how high-schoolers use phone slang/abbreviations in their formal essay writing is really painful to read.

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

And in the argument that Millennials are on their phones all the time... well, seeing how high-schoolers use phone slang/abbreviations in their formal essay writing is really painful to read.

Do you honestly believe that anybody but the already failing students do this or?

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

That's funny about your grandma. Old ladies love to gamble.
The older people I know struggle with technology or find a lot of it to be extraneous. My parents have never owned a computer and only had cells because I bought them for them.

Well my grandma struggled, and well, still struggles with technology, thankfully we're here to fix all of her technology woes. Every time I go to her house I get to "fix" her devices. She said her iPad was having problems and she had like a million and half apps downloaded and most of them were opened all at once. She says her computer is running slow and I open up her INTERNET EXPLORER, even though we've downloaded Mozilla, and then more recently chrome, and on her internet explorer she had downloaded a million of those spam things, like cursor mania, and live backgrounds, and a thing for free big animated smiley to put in emails and her tool bar is about half of the screen with all these things on it... It's a constant battle with her, trying to train her how to properly use the internet and technology, but at least she knows how to download and play all of the gambling apps ever.

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And in the argument that Millennials are on their phones all the time... well, seeing how high-schoolers use phone slang/abbreviations in their formal essay writing is really painful to read.

Remember when all of our words were long and eloquent and then we kept mashing them all together to make them easier and shorter to write and now that's how we talk all the time? Neither do I because it's literally been for like ever. And I mean when people used to send telegram they'd shorthand like crazy to get their point across in as few words as possible. It's not new.

 

[Celestefey]

And in the argument that Millennials are on their phones all the time... well, seeing how high-schoolers use phone slang/abbreviations in their formal essay writing is really painful to read.

Just because people use slang/abbreviations does not mean they are unintelligent or that it's bad. Our language changes over time and people are finding quicker and more easier ways to communicate their ideas across because of things like technology. Admittedly, if they are using bad grammar and spelling, or use slang/abbreviations to the point it's incomprehensible, then fair enough, you have to draw the line somewhere. But it's not an inherently bad thing. You can't say that the language we used 100 years ago was better because we've never reached a "high standard" of spoken or written expression.

But people only look down upon Millennials because they are the current generation so are 'ruining the world'. When a new generation comes around we'll complain about them instead.

 

[radical6]

milenials cant read!!!!!!!!

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I'll take my entitlement and dependence on technology over the Baby Boomers' racism, sexism, and homophobia.

actually it was proven millenials are not that much less racist compared to baby boomers i think 0_-

 

[Brackets]

I hate the stereotype that we're lazy and entitled. Like, no. More people are going to university than ever before, despite the fact it's harder for us because we have to go into debt. My dad was literally paid to go to uni, whereas mine is ?9000 a year. And there's increased pressure to do well now, because the job market is so much worse than it was for the last generation.

Even at school nowadays there are so many exams and increased pressure - almost everyone at my school worked so hard and were stressed all the time.

And yes we have technology, but it's not just us that use it?? Technology is a staple of modern day life - for example doctors now have medicine-prescribing apps on their phones. And if older people don't like it then they are just scared of new things. But I see loads of middle-aged people on their phones and iPads all the time anyway.

Also I strongly suspect that the whole 'millenials are dumb' thing is because of social media. There have ALWAYS been tons of dumb people, but back in the day they weren't posting all over facebook and twitter, so you kinda just didn't know about them.

 

[hzl]

Whats a millennial?

seconding this, wth is a millennial?

 

[RainbowCherry]

seconding this, wth is a millennial?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Millenial

That is, more or less, what a millenial is.

 

[hzl]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Millenial

That is, more or less, what a millenial is.

"There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to around 2000."

So anyone who is currently aged 16 - 36. Not sure how you can stereotype such a diverse age range :S

 

[RainbowCherry]

"There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to around 2000."

So anyone who is currently aged 16 - 36. Not sure how you can stereotype such a diverse age range :S

Nor am I. Pretty sure it's always that large. 52-76 is one, I believe.

 

[hzl]

Nor am I. Pretty sure it's always that large. 52-76 is one, I believe.

that's crazy, there can be two generations within these set years - both with stereotypes of their own

 

[saehanfox]

Another thing - millenials are overwhelmingly liberal however the older generation that see all millenials as social justice warriors are only basing that off the vocal minority of campus feminists and anti-Israel activists