[Misc] What do you think of Generation Z?

[Mustafa II]

Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012, so, 13 to 28 year olds today.

They are the social media generation - glued to their smart phones, spend a lot of their time browsing social media, watching memes, online shorts and influencers. They're very conscious if not passionate about mental health and social inclusivity issues... and generally really not into the hedonistic desires of young people of the past, such as sex, drugs and alcohol.

I personally feel they're missing out on life, quite significantly. But that's not say my (millennial) generation was right, but we definitely did things differently. But I am eternally glad that I was not born into the smartphone/social media era. It can't be good for our young people, at all.

 

[Anger]

 

[Taybha]

I like Brad but it was a bit far fetched

 

[bWize]

Prefer them to boomers

 

[Man of Harveys]

I couldn’t eat a whole one

 

[Titanic]

Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012, so, 13 to 28 year olds today.

They are the social media generation - glued to their smart phones, spend a lot of their time browsing social media, watching memes, online shorts and influencers. They're very conscious if not passionate about mental health and social inclusivity issues... and generally really not into the hedonistic desires of young people of the past, such as sex, drugs and alcohol.

I personally feel they're missing out on life, quite significantly. But that's not say my (millennial) generation was right, but we definitely did things differently. But I am eternally glad that I was not born into the smartphone/social media era. It can't be good for our young people, at all.

What are 1989 - 1995 called?

edit: I looked it up: Millenials.

What are there defining characteristics?

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Your broad brush appraisal of Gen zs is quite frankly bollocks. Not all Gen Zs lie awake at night dreaming of new pronouns or Instagram filters like you make out.

The 18+ lads at my cricket club do very much the same things that I did at that age. Namely playing sport, drinking and going into town. The only time they are glued to their phones is the dating apps instead of 2 for 1 drinks in a nightclub back in the day.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

What are 1989 - 1995 called?

edit: I looked it up: Millenials.

What are there defining characteristics?

Moaning about every aspect of modern life?

 

[BN9 BHA]

I prefer Generation X

 

[Goldstone1976]

I don’t really.

 

[Bakero]

Your broad brush appraisal of Gen zs is quite frankly bollocks. Not all Gen Zs lie awake at night dreaming of new pronouns or Instagram filters like you make out.

The 18+ lads at my cricket club do very much the same things that I did at that age. Namely playing sport, drinking and going into town. The only time they are glued to their phones is the dating apps instead of 2 for 1 drinks in a nightclub back in the day.

This. I play football with several lads in that age bracket and they're perfectly normal human beings. Saying that, when we go for a post-match drink Sunday lunchtime, some of them will have a coffee, the weirdos

 

[Questions]

Prefer them to boomers

f*** off

 

[nickbrighton]

i think this whole gen X, Y, Z, Millennials , etc is just a lazy way of finding a group to blame for whatever Ills, real or imagined, someone has.

The world has changed so much in almost everyway since the late 90s , and the pace of that change is increasing and comparing what current 60 yr olds did, to what current teens and 20s do is not comparing like for like and so ultimately pointless.
No one group is responsible for climate change, house prices, discrimination , or anything else. Its a collective effort , we all f***ed up in one way or another.

Any banding of an entire age group regardless of any socio-economic, ethnic, of anything else will have massive differences right across the board, and its(IMO) silly to generalise about such huge diverse groupings.

 

[Stato]

Much better than the millennials, purely on the basis that they have turned on the author of those crappy magicians at Malory Towers books. (By the way, Grow up and stop asking for knowledge of that tripe in literature rounds in quizzes! We liked the Mister Men and Asterix books but we never pretended they were literature).

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Gen Z are easy for lazy journalists to take cheap shots at. But no generation in modern times has had such a raw deal in terms of their future prospects re jobs and housing. No wonder they seek refuge in their phones.

The kids are alright

 

[Questions]

But in answer to the question…… wankers… all of em.

 

[Gabbafella]

I've met absolute wankers from all different generations.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Prefer them to boomers

what are you?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

This thread is lovely. If you like divisiveness.

 

[Stato]

I prefer Generation X

Who ironically weren't actually Gen Xers, but boomers.