So what’s so important about dividing and defining these generations anyway? Michael Dimock, president of Pew Research Center wrote in the same blog post that one primary reason is for research, “Generational cohorts give researchers a tool to analyze changes in views over time. They can provide a way to understand how different formative experiences (such as world events and technological, economic and social shifts) interact with the life-cycle and aging process to shape people’s views of the world.”
So what kind of formative experiences have millennials gone through? They went through a world transformed by 9/11, the first black president, an economic recession, rapid shifts in technology (remember dial-up) and social media. Through all these changes people born in this era became generational chameleons.
I remember when going to blockbuster on Friday was the highlight of the week.
There's a huge difference between certain groups of millennials.
Get off my lawn you punks.
I remember when going to blockbuster on Friday was the highlight of the week.
There's a huge difference between certain groups of millennials.
Get off my lawn you punks.