Entitled millennials?

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This has probably been done to death but there's a saying that hard times make hard people and soft times make soft people.

It's kind of a no brainer.

My grandmother left home and volunteered for christian mission work in the early 1930s where she met my grandfather overseas. They both endured war rations in the 1940s and living hand to mouth.

My grandfather's generation had it much tougher. During World War 2 he did many different things including running an orphanage (little known fact, the war created a lot of abandoned kids) and also a boarding house for disembarking and returning troops fighting the Japanese.

Every generation that came after had it easier. Kids these days are born staring at electronic gadgets from their cots and live on take-out/fast food and online education. They spend their days worrying how their social media profiles look.

This chick (MIA) was ahead of her time and predicted the rise of social media platforms from the MySpace

I'm Gen Z and I actually do remember MySpace being around. However, I'm near the cut off point - if I were a bit older, I'd fall under the Gen Y category. Further, I have an older sister who falls into Gen Y. However, I was never on MySpace. I remember it being around, YouTubers used to go on about it and I used to think they were so grown up and cool. Back then, I used to play Flash games on the Internet and sometimes games would ask you to make a MySpace account to save your progress. Our internet was terrible though, so I'd click on the link to join MySpace and the webpage would crash. If the Internet connection had been more stable, I'd probably have made an account.

One time during University, our lecturer asked us how many of us are on Facebook. The majority of us voted that we were. He was baffled at the response. "Wait, but aren't you all Gen Z? This is an odd group, I thought you all were supposed to be leaving the platform!"

I keep it around because it's what I want potential employers and relatives to see. Sort of a 'Hey, look at me being a mentally stable, fully-rounded individual!' collection board. A lack of social media is often considered suspicious in this day and age, especially for someone of my generation. I use different platforms for different reasons. Facebook is to maintain general appearances and to keep family in the loop. When I want to keep in touch with friends, I usually use Discord. Marketing and branding is LinkedIn and so on. Very much so it is calculated, these days your social media is essentially an extension of your application, so crafting it is somewhat important.

However, we are starting to see a shift. Teenagers appear to be dropping Facebook, so mid to young Gen Z do seem to be dropping the platform. Whereas older Gen Z and Gen Y do seem to be still using it. I am aware that I am expected to be there, so I keep it and use it for the reasons stated. Of course, I'm only speaking for myself and my experiences here.

I'm a Baby Boomer.

I still have a bit of trouble conceiving that multiple people could be playing video games together in widely disparate places around the world. I actually don't have too much trouble---but it's still awe-inspiring.

I go back to the age of Pinball. Pre-video games. Phones were things which you kept on the wall or desk, and you never took the phone out of the room where it resided.