#milllennials

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

Now you all are probably familiar with my laments about not fitting into any of the named generations. Well, those of us who were born between the late 70s and 1985 no longer have to be lumped in with Millennials or Gen Xers that we don't fit in with. We have a name!

I identify with this article so strongly, particularly the part about having a completely different childhood than that of a sibling just a few years my junior. I hope that this term for our age group gains more momentum.

Now, I know that I'm going to get a lot of "But stopmakingliberalslookbad, I was born in the late 80s/the 90s and I identify with this too!" I'm just going to come right out and stop you right there. Your experiences growing up were not the same as ours. It's a lot more than just "But we liked the same computer games! I had AOL too!" Sorry, folks. But perhaps somebody will coin a term for you late 80s/early 90s babies next (The Pokemon Generation perhaps?). I support the idea of these subgenerations.

[slackersextraordinaire]

Infographic: How Millennials and Baby Boomers Consume User-Generated Content

And what brands can learn from their preferences 

[tinnyfinch]

Xander Mozejewski, L.A.'s Insanely Awesome Wheelchair Guy

[slackersextraordinaire]

Guess Who's Being Described?

Wow, even the seniors get a shout-out.

She is perhaps to the millennials what J. D. Salinger was to the post-World War II generation and Woody Allen was to the baby boomers: a singular voice who spoke as an outsider and, in so doing, became the ultimate insider.

[millennialmashup]

27 Tips for Mastering Anything | Entrepreneur.com

What does it take to become a master at your craft? Is genius innate, or can it be learned? 

[jessien]

Kinder, gentler

LAST August Eric Holder, America’s attorney-general, issued a memo to federal prosecutors. It directed them not to charge certain low-level, non-violent,...

The desire for prison reform (read: reduced sentencing mostly for Millennials now and those coming behind them) is, I assert, generationally driven. Society naturally, instintively, intuitively wants to protect its Hero generation (today's #Millennials) as much as it wanted to do the opposite for Nomads (today's #GenXers).  For #Boomers now entering elderhood, their pulpit-preaching, morals-laden judgements are softening as the ones being punished are their beloved Millennials. For GenXers rising up into midlife, less government and costly programs are simply inefficient and need to go. Combine it all and you have prison reform benefiting mostly Millennials and, by default, some GenXers. 

[scarletsoldier21-blog]

Millennials: We Suck and We're Sorry

Preach!