[Niamh.]

Not sure if I'll get many (if any) replies to this thread because the video is 15 minutes long It's a really good watch though, it's something I think about alot, especially the whole mobile phone bit and the deterioration of real human interactions in society

Youtube video

[Livia]

Haha.... I saw this today, my sister-in-law told me about it. She has three millennials and agrees with pretty much all of it!

Thinking that the sound-bite generation can't keep attention for a 15 minute film is really just rubber stamping what this man said, you know!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Haha.... I saw this today, my sister-in-law told me about it. She has three millennials and agrees with pretty much all of it!

Thinking that the sound-bite generation can't keep attention for a 15 minute film is really just rubber stamping what this man said, you know!

That's true enough and yeah I have a couple myself and I often have to push them out the door to meet their friends instead of communicating through snap chat, PS4 games etc etc

I can be guilty of the phone thing myself too though, I need to address that too i think

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Haha.... I saw this today, my sister-in-law told me about it. She has three millennials and agrees with pretty much all of it!

Thinking that the sound-bite generation can't keep attention for a 15 minute film is really just rubber stamping what this man said, you know!

Or you know, the whole patronising tone of the video turns them off, that and the idiotic bean bag comment. Guess what? Not every millennial works in some ****ty 'we're so cool' google wannabe business, some of us work damned hard and we don't need to listen to some Silicon Valley soundbite machine telling us how we're somehow destroying society.

It's kinda funny how every single previous generation finds something that the next generation likes and disapproves, Rock N Roll, Radio, Television, Marylin Manson, The Beatles ect. but they, without fail, always do the exact same when it comes to the next generation - The Tablet Generation!

Also, I prefer this video

Youtube video

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Or you know, the whole patronising tone of the video turns them off, that and the idiotic bean bag comment. Guess what? Not every millennial works in some ****ty 'we're so cool' google wannabe business, some of us work damned hard and we don't need to listen to some Silicon Valley soundbite machine telling us how we're somehow destroying society.

It's kinda funny how every single previous generation finds something that the next generation likes and disapproves, Rock N Roll, Radio, Television, Marylin Manson, The Beatles ect. but they, without fail, always do the exact same when it comes to the next generation - The Tablet Generation!

Also, I prefer this video

Youtube video

Blimey... it's a light-hearted thread, I thought. Maybe I was wrong.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Blimey... it's a light-hearted thread, I thought. Maybe I was wrong.

It was supposed to be Denying that the guy has some pretty valid points though is silly I think

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Blimey... it's a light-hearted thread, I thought. Maybe I was wrong.

I know, I actually cut down the post from my original, so used to being in serious debates

[Crimson Dynamo]

15 minutes?



delete it

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

15 minutes?



delete it

MillennialTrumpet

[Marsh.]

I'm on my phone in work right now. Stop killing my buzz Niamh

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

I'm on my phone in work right now. Stop killing my buzz Niamh

I'm on a forum communicating with strangers so I can't talk....pardon the pun

[Marsh.]

In my defence there's no one worth talking to here right now

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

In my defence there's no one worth talking to here right now

That's exactly the attitude that stops you from finding out if they're worth talking to or not

[Marsh.]

[Niamh.]

[Glenn.]

I watched this on Facebook today. There's a millennial at my work that's entitled and pampered etc.

[Beso]

I would talk to anyone for some striped candy.

[Tom4784]

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Yes Perfect
Dezzy

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Not sure if I'll get many (if any) replies to this thread because the video is 15 minutes long It's a really good watch though, it's something I think about alot, especially the whole mobile phone bit and the deterioration of real human interactions in society

You Should put its 15mins too long,

These Folks are debated alot on FoxNewsHD,
Fox Business News, CNN HD , CNBC , Bloomberg
so I get your Drift

[jennyjuniper]

I agree that people, especially younger ones, seem to be isolating themselves more. Having a hundred 'friends' on Facebook or Twitter will never replace the one good true friend, who will always have your back, as you would have his/hers.
Having said that, I don't even have a mobile phone, so I can't talk from experience, merely from observing groups of youngsters, obviously together, yet not saying a word to each other, being too busy texting.

[armand.kay]

Meh millennials get **** on so much all this criticism is just funny at this point. if people can't see how passionate, hardworking and enlightened this generation can be and instead wan't to focus on the self obsessed, social media zombies then whatever. What can you do about that? The older generation will always bitch and moan about how great it was for them and how they have the most amazing values... which must be true I guess, look at the world millennials were raised in. A prime example of the morality and excellence of the generations before.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

Meh millennials get **** on so much all this criticism is just funny at this point. if people can't see how passionate, hardworking and enlightened this generation can be and instead wan't to focus on the self obsessed, social media zombies then whatever. What can you do about that? The older generation will always bitch and moan about how great it was for them and how they have the most amazing values... which must be true I guess, look at the world millennials were raised in. A prime example of the morality and excellence of the generations before.

It's not really bitching and moaning though, it's just observations and it's not just with "Millenials" I'm guilty of it myself alot. I can't comment too much on workplaces etc, my kids are still in school. I do think the whole social media stuff and mobile phones taking over peoples lives is something that should be looked at in particular. Also, tbf to the guy in the video he's not even blaming "millenials" he's blaming their parents and the massive change in how we communicate with eachother with all these advances in technology etc. As a parent of a 16 and 12 year old I do worry about the social media generation and how they're making and communicating with their friends. As a parent I feel like that's part of my job

[y.winter]

He might have some valid points, but I can see my coworkers being guilty all the same, and they're 10+ years older than me. It gets most of us, regardless of age.
In the end of the day, it's just another excuse to put the blame on - every generation suffers from "useless" people as well as from "innovative" people, it's the changing catalysts that reclassify them.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by y.winter

He might have some valid points, but I can see my coworkers being guilty all the same, and they're 10+ years older than me. It gets most of us, regardless of age.
In the end of the day, it's just another excuse to put the blame on - every generation suffers from "useless" people as well as from "innovative" people, it's the changing catalysts that reclassify them.

Yeah definitely. I was more interested in the second part though the whole phone/social media part which older people are guilty of too in alot of ways but definitely how teenagers communicate with eachother as compared to pre social media explosion is very different