"Why do you want to watch a 100% of a concert, that you payed good money for, through your phone lens?"
"Recording yourself crying."
"The emails I get from my students aged 18-25 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 so if this is a generational gap, it happened quickly!"
"Taking public calls on speaker phone and sending voice messages. ."
"Why they'd rather watch someone else play a video game than play it themselves. That was a punishment when I was a kid, not entertainment."
"Their obsession with immediately diagnosing psychological things and turning everything into therapy-speak. "You're gaslighting me", etc."
"Gen Z has a very strong not my problem/not my job someone else will do it/fix it attitude."
"Tiktok is an actual news source for some."
"Apparently, despite growing up with technology around them, they don't know how to use computers properly because they focus mostly on smartphones and tablets."
"37 year old attending college for the first time here. They have negative confidence. They barely speak above a mumble, especially when answering a question from the teacher. Most of them would rather die than talk to someone they're interested in. It's like 90% of them are cripplingly introverted."
"They don’t “go out”. Their friends are on social media or online, so there’s very little “going out”. Also, a marked disinterest in dating."
"Their inability to see the nuance on a lot of issues. It’s black or white for them, completely ignoring the multitude of layers and shades of gray that exist in the world."
"They've been so coddled and raised in front of screens rather than interacting in the real world that ANYTHING gives them anxiety.Talking to people, trying something new, going somewhere, literally anything can make them shut down."
"If I have to teach one more adult how alphabetical order works, I'm going to lose it."
"These are university graduates. They just throw the file back in. Like how did you find it in the first place?"
"Why do they go to the movies only to scroll through their phone the *entire time*?"
"I’m in my forties and I manage a small group of people who are in their 20s to early thirties. What I notice most is how anxious and fearful they seem to be. Everyone is out to get them. I often get approached by subordinates who want me to do something about a colleague who is doing them wrong in some way. After I gather more information, it almost always is a case of poor assumption about someone else’s intentions, coupled with a desire to jump to the worst case scenario. If I ask them a series of probing questions about other possible interpretations they often admit they didn’t consider those possibilities. The other thing is too much bravado - over confidence in their knowledge, skill or ability in an area. I think it’s potentially a defense mechanism to combat the fear and the people they think are out to get them."
"Everything seems to have to have a label. Not just people and groups, but every concept or just generic thing that is popular has to be given a label or a hashtag. I find it so weird, especially when it's something that people have been doing forever, but now Gen Z have discovered it, it's got some brand new buzzy hashtag label as though it's just been invented."
"The lack of understanding that things put on the internet are public forever."
"Treating fixable problems as core personality traits, and focusing on accommodating them rather than fixing them.
Too anxious to go to the grocery store? Too fat to do well in gym class? Too shy to make friends? Too illiterate to enjoy reading? The ADA is not for you. Fix your sh#t."
"The need to document every thought, bite of food, outfit change , papsmear , and things that leave them " literally shaking right now".. like the lady at Starbucks calling you sir when clearly you're a they/them with a beard."
"The self victimization, clinging to whatever label they think will shield them from criticism, learned helplessness, refusal to consider viewpoints that doing align with their worldview. I could go on."
"How someone can be over the age of 25 years and is very comfortable to be financially taken care of by another person like parents, other relatives or a spouse."
"We were saying what we would do if we won the big lottery jackpot. The new 22 yr old hire said he’d become an influencer. Can you imagine winning a billion at 22 and that’s what you would do. Not start a business, travel the world, charity, sports, property… Learn something… but become an influencer… with a billion dollars. I mean like he’s gonna hire a marketing company to fabricate interest in his social media? He’s gonna spend money on stupid things to make people cringe or rage comment? With a billion dollars.
Just thought that was a weird and low bar and was hard to understand."
"They’ve apparently lost the ability to step outside their comfort zone, I think. All that happens have to be safe and secure, otherwise it gives severe anxiety. No need for exploration, adventure."
"Why aren't they voting!?! Do they not know how much power they could have? Willing to go to protests (and that is a good thing) but not willing to go to the voting booth (and that's a bad thing)."
"The rapid pace of technological advancement leaves me baffled. How do they effortlessly navigate through endless streams of information while maintaining attention spans shorter than a goldfish?"
"Speaking mostly for the middle schoolers I work with, but not caring about being smart, understanding the world, achieving success, or having empathy. I cannot fathom what keeps them going without caring about anything. I don't know how to motivate these kids when things like getting something wrong loudly and publicly doesn't even give them pause or introspection. They just move on and continue not caring about what really is right and wrong?"
"I'm manage a lot of fresh graduates in my job, and I don't understand how in the space of just 2 years (during Covid) we went from great graduates, able to operate independently and work things out themselves to graduates who need their hand held for the most basic tasks."
"Their dependency on authority and lack of self-reliancy.
You have access to all the world's knowledge in your pocket, but you are only using it as a toy and when you need to learn something you are looking for a teacher."
"Why they can navigate through an entire digital universe with ease but can't seem to find the kitchen without a GPS."
"They don’t seem to care about learning to drive. I couldn’t wait to learn to drive and we didn’t even own a car."
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Please don't, this list is grossly propaganda based, and applies or doesn't apply to EVERY age group. I'm +40 and like a horoscope it applies because it's too broad.
The modern human doesnt want to be political in a RELIGION based partisan Political system. I'm waiting for the 60+ to finally die off so we can FINALLY destroy it and have dozens of parties that we CAN find a GOVERNMENT skilled person to vote for (popularity without skill is disgusting)
I get what you're saying but the way aging works there will always be a 60+ (unless you think we should consider a Logan's Run situation...)