Generation Z

Worse than Millennials. Talking to parents today, I just want to slap them. Over managed, over scheduled, over involved. It's next level.

I never thought I would say the words that I might miss Millennials.

People tend to revolt against the previous generation, so I would think Z would be less oversharing on social media and more guarded.

Enough with the letters? What will the generation after theirs be called, Generation AA? Someone referred to them as The Centennials. I like that a lot more than Generation Z.

As much as I make fun of millennials, at least they were raised by Boomers, so they've had no trouble asserting themselves.

Too young to tell.

It's weird to think of Millennials as not the youngest generation anymore.

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The oldest millennials are mid to late thirties, so some have Gen Z teenagers already.

I have a step daughter who is a millennial and most of my friends had their children earlier than I do so all their kids are of that generation. None of them can launch.

My son is firmly a Z as are his peers. I noticed a complete difference in his classmates/friends than I saw in the Millgen.

I don't think they will tattoo or Facebook or even game to the same level as the gen just ahead of them. People knock common core stuff but I am blown away by the information my son is receiving at a much earlier age then I was exposed. The kids are pretty awake. They also seem as a whole harder working.

As I sit in car line everyday watching the middle school let out I will tell you they are "younger" - then we were at that age especially in sexual maturity. No fast girls in high heels - no smoking kids - no stories of weekend binges in the parens liquor cabinet. We live in a very small town outside a University city. I chose to locate here on purpose and we do escape the pressures where we are that more urbanized kids deal with. But still - it seems like a good batch coming up behind the Mills.

Excuse the grammar and spelling in my post, its early here and the coffee is not activated yet. Thank you. (Reply 10)

"So You Think You Can Launch?" A new reality show brought to you by R10, courtesy of NASA.

Frauiest thing ever: attributing earlyish morning stupidities to "I am a complete moron, cunt, and bear until I've had my first cup of coffee."

Generation Z will do well enough.

Millennials will treat Gen Z better than Generation X treated us. By the fucking sound of it, you would have thought that millennials were the end of civilization itself.

And guess what? It's 2017. Millennials represent the highest percentage of home-owners, of the entire U.S. military, of cops, firemen, of first-time parents. We will not go anywhere and we will not be pushed around.

I suspect they will be achievers like no other generation. This is just a guess. At the walking park, I see children who can't be more than 3 playing with i pads, and 2 ? year old being encouraged to throw a great baseball pitch and doing so!! The kid had a pacifier in his mouth for God's sake. A friend's granddaughter was skiing when less than 5 and is now 6 and knows about yoga . The kids slightly older seem better educated than we elder-gays were when we were elementary school age.

And we sure as hell are not going to take shit from Generation X!

[quote] Frauiest thing ever: attributing earlyish morning stupidities to "I am a complete moron, cunt, and bear until I've had my first cup of coffee."

Lol, R13.

Pathetic, apologetic R10 -R12 is a great example of why Millennials will easily wrest power away from the wishy-washy Gen Xers.

If nothing else, our Boomer parents taught us how do that well.

R10 is a great example of a Gen X helicopter parent and her child.

Z? Generation Zombie?

R19, don't tell that to Gen X parents. That might trigger them!

Gen X can go to hell. They've been fucking assholes to us for 20 years.

Just wait until their precious children are of age.

We are more than ready to return the favor!

Who cares?

R14 Homebuyers(possibly) but NOT homeowners - don't be insane! And young people (20-35) are having children- Breaking News!

And yes the cops, Fire & military recruit young people!

Many Z'ers already are of age and are in the workplace, and they're rightly gaining a reputation as the most focused and competitive generation since the Boomers.

"By the fucking sound of it, you would have thought that millennials were the end of civilization itself"

They have been, just about.

The hysterical pointlessness of your post is a good illustration.

So they will be the next right wing generation?

Depends on what you mean by right wing, R27. The teenagers I know don't have the activism streak that millennials seemed to have had at their age. But they seem liberal enough on the issues they care about

The young people I know have houses only because they inherited wealth or because someone in the family bought it for them. I don't know if that speaks for all of them.

Many are over burdened with debt.

Instead of focusing on young people so much, Boomers should be taking advice from what remains of the Greatest Generation on this next dark, final chapter of their lives.

My niece and her friends are older Z - I like them. Their IG is under control having grown out of social media at 12-14. A few cute things like not being able to work US mail.

Main difference I notice is attachment to parents: single child common, treated as near equal from birth, no serious rebellion. No time to rebel anyway - see over scheduling.

Very eco and sjw, but sweeter about it than Millennial - not as snotty.

Sex: too young to really know. Seems toned down because went thru the exhibitionist phase super young via snap chat and now over it.

Also a good portion of their millennial relatives were already openly in same sex relationships while they were growing up so they seem to see LGB in terms of relationships, not fucking. I left off T because I've heard zero about Trans from them.

Love the Obamas. Grew up with them.

[quote]Enough with the letters?

Ever since GenX the media just goes with the next letter as basically a placeholder until a name is discovered. Millennials were Generation Y for a long time.

[quote]So they will be the next right wing generation?

Honestly, I think that's Millennials, but Millennials just haven't figured this out about themselves yet.

The other day someone I follow RTed a lady saying she had returned to Twitter but was still suicidal. Curious, I look into it, and it's a woman who wrote a review about a book with feminist takes of Hillary Clinton and the 2016 election. This lady's review was tweeted as "I'm totally drunk y'all read my review lol," and the review itself complained that the book wasn't about Bernie Sanders instead, or about Millennials "like me," referring to herself. It was self-absorbed and sexist as hell.

Then she pretended as though she'd gotten nasty comments on the review -- there were no comments on the webpage at all, let alone nasty ones -- so she deactivated for a few days and then came back saying she still "wished for death."

The sexism and exaggeration of threats to create the false narrative of being a victim was all shockingly right-wing. I hope very much that the next generation doesn't have any of that bullshit. I'd like to think that, because they didn't grow up in the conservative 1980s, they won't have internalized that gross behavior.

There is some banshee ranting on this thread about how Generation X is oppressing Millennials. This does not make sense. Gen X is a small group of people, much smaller than the Boomers and the Millennials. There aren't enough of them to be a meaningful influence.

And, the age difference is too narrow. Generation X is at most 18 years older than the Millennials. The majority of the Xers are younger than that. Which tells you that there aren't enough Xers to have much of an influence on Millennials.

I've seen Generation Z called Generation i a lot in the media, due to their reliance on the internet for information and for socialising. 'i' also stands for insular and introverted, to the point of living vicariously online in a lot of cases.

The availability of porn/explicit fan fic means this generation are much better informed about sex than any previous generation, but this also means they are much more likely to reject actual sexual experience as they're put off by how aggressive a lot of porn is. They are far more likely than any previous generation to identify asexual or grey/aro etc.

This generation are also self educating in a way that was impossible prior to smart phones etc. They will look up words and concepts they don't understand straight away. This has to be a huge advantage.

They are also much less likely to move out of their parents' home. Most of them will live happily with their 30/40 something parents who will give them lots of freedom to come and go.

I read that Gen Z were much more likely to commit suicide than any previous generation due to the encroaching debt of student loans or even a mortgage. It just all gets too much and they spend too much time alone, online, not talking to people but typing to them, which isn't the same thing and confuses the brain.

This is an interesting article about Generation I.

The world at their fingertips, so they're not moving out of the bedroom. 600 virtual friends and two actual friends. Losing their virginity later as intimidated by the sleek bodies they see in internet porn, so readily available. Much more likely to be LGBT+ than any other generation, often the B, P or A in that acronym. Came of age from 2010 onwards.

Here is the link.

Just googled "generation i" and only found the one story R40 posted. Assume he works for the same company.

There are some articles trying to make younger Xers into Gen I, but nothing about Gen Z.

More than other generation, the life experiences of upper middle class (top 15-20%) Gen Zers will be markedly different than their peers.

No college debt;

Lots of great internships leading to good jobs

Groomed to be serious achievers from Day 1

Strong sense they hit a triple even though they grew up on 3rd base

Less tolerant of Millennial SJW crap

I don't think they will call them Generation Z in the end, there has to be something to recognise that this is the first generation to be raised by smartphone. Millennials did not have the same internet access when they were children; they didn't carry it around with them like the 2010s kids. 6 year olds are there looking up words and concepts. They're going to grow knowing a little about a lot.

"Digital Natives" is the word you're looking for R43

Already invented and in use.

R42, I don't see the SJW-ness going anywhere.

Generation Zs are far more likely to identify as trans or asexual or non binary or whatever.

R44, not heard that one yet in the UK.

Digital natives doesn't cover it, these are kids who have become teens in the past say five years. People didn't use their smartphones for internet access that much until 2012, when the iphone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S2 came out. Before then, phones had tiny screens and you couldn't do much online. Nowadays phones are mini computers.

Make that 2010, that's when the iphone 4 hit the shelves. Most kids probably didn't get it until 2011.

R47 most of the queens on here didn't even have AOL dial-up internet until they were 40. So no need to split hairs about 1-2 years.

[quote] Many Z'ers already are of age and are in the workplace, and they're rightly gaining a reputation as the most focused and competitive generation since the Boomers.

What jobs would that be?

Hot Dog on a Stick?

I have a lot of confidence in them, they are coming of age in a time when Cheetolin is in power. The Republicans have lost them for the infinite future. Plus Gen Z has larger demographics of the groups that are important to Democrats: Blacks, Mexicans, Italians, and Chinese.

Bernie is disgusting piece of shit. I hope those women make a stink about getting their money back.

This generational warfare is a bunch of bullshit and just another way to divide fractured Americans into even smaller cliques.

As somebody upthread already mentioned, people picked on millennials as being the end of American culture, and yet that generation has come into their own, picking up the slack everywhere it has been needed.

Generation Z will similarly be criticized these next 20 years.

It's Boomers who bitch about Millenials.

Generation Z? Do you know something we don't? As in this is the LAST generation of humans?

In any event who are these people? Ages please and not DOBs but how old are these various generations at the moment?

Baby Boomer thanking you in advance. Is my 17 year old niece one of them?

Gen Z start with birth dates around 2000, give or take 2 years.

TY, R56. So Z is just getting started.

Like any other generation.

Around the late 1990s, posters on Datalounge were asking these same types of questions and threads about millenials. Generation Xers were the ones getting beat up on and criticized back then.

And generation Alpha is Z's replacement.

It's good to see Millennials finally assert themselves and show some gumption.

R61, turning 30 years old+ typically does that to you.

You stop giving a shit about whatever the hell people are saying about you.

As more Millennials reach that 30 year old milestone, expect them to be bolder, more vocal, more opinionated and less patient.

What do you call the generation after Gen Z?

Generation Zzzzzzzzzzzzz, R63.

Millennials are the generation that the selfish Boomers deserve to have.

And Generation X is the smug generation of parents who have given birth to an entirely new, entitled generation of conservative little asswipes.

No fucking way. My kid is kind, smart, and sensitive. Wise way beyond her years. She doesn't have a conservative bone in her body.

Everyone hates the Mills who just point fingers at everyone else. Even the generations after them see them as a waste. Ugly, sniping narcissistic blamers. I'd like a comparison chart on their obesity levels. With all the antidepressants they take to cope and their weight issues and sedentary life styles at least they have a short life expectancy.

R67 is the type of helicopter parent who is typical of Generation X.

As someone who was raised by extremely selfish and neglectful parents, I take that as a compliment, R69.

At least our Baby Boomer parents taught us how to be mean and how to be cut-throat!

That is why you Beck Loser Generation Xers can't even find yourselves in the highest levels of authority! Baby Boomers keep blocking your asses from those coveted positions, even until this day. You are in your 40s and 50s and nobody respects you and nobody gives a flying shit about you. And we are encroaching on you.

And we will overtake you.

Damn, bitch R71!

[quote] Baby Boomers keep blocking your asses from those coveted positions, even until this day. You are in your 40s and 50s and nobody respects you and nobody gives a flying shit about you. And we are encroaching on you.

This is true.

Not looking forward to the millennial version of The Big Chill if R71 is any indication

[quote]What will they be like?

If they ever look up long enough for me to see their eyes, I'll let you know.

R71, is that supposed to be satire? Millenials can't even figure out how to move out of their parents' house.

Meanwhile, Gen X has been running the world for a while now.

Generation Xers love to rhapsodize their disgusting Reagan 80s childhoods.

They can go straight to fucking hell!

Lol Gen X was known as the generation as lazy, unkempt slackers. Revisionist history. I am a Millennial homeowner and it damn sure wasn't easy. Thanks for allowing tuition to sky rocket, thanks for the recession, thanks for electing Bush twice...thanks for nothing really.

At least Millennials grew up as children of the 1990s of the Clinton era!

Gen X can go to fucking hell!

At least Millennials voted 55% for Hillary, 37% for Trump!

Gen X voted overwhelmingly for Trump!

We are children of the 90s, we are liberal, and we are optimistic and empathetic.

Compare that to their lame, hard-on for their 1980s childhood that they don't shut the fuck up about.

Gen X let the status quo reign for far too long. They did nothing in the 90s. The boomers still ran everything. Millennials got the first black president in office.

R81, that is why it is upsetting that Gen X tries to pass us Millennials off as so many of the negative things that they try to pass us off as.

And now we are older, and we are calling them out on their shit!

Exactly. They were shat on during the entire 90s for their lack of motivation and pet causes like save the whales, save the dolphins. Yes, we needed that, but where were you when it came to standing up to real problems? Millennials literally woke up America with our voices.

And Millennials have no great elder respect for Gen X.

They are not our parents. Boomers are our parents. At most, Gen Xers are our older siblings who we maybe have little to no respect for.

Wow, you really debunked that whole "whiny Millenial" stereotype...

Gen Xers were also considered whiny. Stop making things up. We weren't adults, but we were there. We saw your bullshit.

I hope that their asses will still be tight.

Millennials on steroids. Expect our society to cease to function when these social media zombies take the reins.

Well, so far, we are beginning to see the very beginning of Generation Z's oldest teens, and all I can say is that I am NOT impressed with their form of overt, unabashed racism!

Super sensitive, greedy guts little fucks. They want everything YouTube success fast without ever creating an account. They won't have jobs though, lots of drug addicts & no talent. Millennials and Baby Boomers are entitled, empowered and won't go quietly. Forgetting that Generation born during the Carter gas crisis, completely.

What a bunch of Marys. Of course Gen Z is just Gen X 2.0, which should be a good thing. Gen X are their parents.

The first Gen Zers became adults in 2017, so they are already here. Millenialls were just a shitty generation and the sooner we forget them, the better.

R91 Millennials cling to the past, because they are the last to experience the pre-Internet life. Generations beyond them usher in the AI future with open arms.

[quote] What a bunch of Marys. Of course Gen Z is just Gen X 2.0, which should be a good thing. Gen X are their parents.

They are also the first generation weaned entirely on Fox News, from their stupid, clueless Gen X parents.