“Are you going to hook up with your friends at the mall today?”
my dad would ask, clearly not understanding the millennial usage of the term.
But oh, how the tides have turned.
Here’s what people said.
“Recording yourself doing mundane things and even feeling the need to share so much of your life online.
Im 29, and I have one social media account other than Reddit.
I don’t want people to know anything about me unless they call me on the phone.”
Oscar
3.
“I’m a 37-year-old attending college for the first time.
I’ve noticed that younger students have negative confidence.
They barely speak above a mumble, especially when answering a question from the teacher.
Most of them are extremely introverted.”
“Recording yourselves crying.
Let’s check that as many people see this as possible.'”
u/thrillmouse
5. u/Awkward_moments
7.
“I just don’t understand the fascination with watching people’s morning and evening routines.
It’s enough for me to look at my own puffy, sleep-ridden face in the morning.
Why would I want to watch someone else’s?”
But you have entire conversations over voice notes.
It makes no sense!
Make a phone call!"
“How every shirt is now a crop top.
I was born in 1996, but like…I want a shirt that covers my torso.”
“Everything seems to have to have a label.
I find it so weird, especially when people have been doing it forever.
“How they treat TikTok like it is an actual news source.”
u/Illiteratap
12.
“The obsession with life hacks.
Wow!That’s not a life hack, sweetie, that’s called gardening.”
“I can’t stand how Gen Z likes to call anyone older than them a boomer.
I’m 29 and have been called a boomer more times than I can count by younger coworkers.
It’s hilarious.”
samvendig
14.
They take everything personally.”
“The way they believe in cancel culture over consequences.
I don’t want anyone canceled.
To me, that says you were ruined for no reason.
I believe in consequences.
Radar’s Teddy
16.
The new 22-year-old hire said he’d become an influencer.
Can you imagine winning a billion dollars at 22, and that’s what you would do?
With a billion dollars?
I found that one truly hard to understand.”
“My young sister-in-law writes her college essays on her phone.
That’s just wild to me.”
CopyCat93
19.
“Preferring FaceTiming people over picking up the phone and calling them.
Unless you have to show me something, I prefer not to show my face on a screen.”
“The emails I receive from my students aged 1825 are such a mess of incoherent garbage.
I can’t tell if they are lazy or if it’s an actual literacy issue.
And I’m barely older than they are.
If this is a generational gap, it happened quickly!”
u/NefariousSalamander
21.
“That they think they invented the fashion trends they all are following right now.”
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