“Millennials are the demographic cohort between Generation X and Generation Z. Researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and use the mid-1990s to the early 2000s as final birth years for the Millennial Generation.” That’s what Wikipedia says about Generation Y: us. We are the first ones to be born into the Digital Age, children of computers to put it melodramatically. Older generations (parents and grandparents) usually have a hard time understanding our symbiotic coexistence with technology. “Put the controller down, Justin, and go play outside instead. Don’t stare into that phone, Monica. At 8 p.m. you’re shutting your computer off, Peter!” Surely most of us can remember a moment in our childhood we heard something like that. Today the straight up prohibition changed into disapproving looks when we check our (insert any social medium here) during (insert any family occasion here). According to Generation X, we are too dependent on new technology and “things are not as they used to be.” This of course means disaster in the eyes of many elderly folk. It amuses me, because recently I read book about a Sto:lo man born in 1905 and he had the same perspective on people born into the mechanical age: our grandparents. Every generation thinks the younger one is worse because novelty feels dangerous. My plea, therefore, is next time you’re about to scold younger sibling about something new and unfamiliar to you, try and remember what it felt like when grandpa unplugged the power cord from your Macintosh.
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