One of my fav Millennial writers Morley Winograd and Michael Hais had a great Millennial Fact Sheet article come out this week that dispels some annoyingly frequent assumptions about young people – particularly ones about politics.
Here are a few of my personal favorites
2. Millennials are narcissistic, self-indulgent kids who think they are entitled to everything. False: Millennials have a deep commitment to community and helping others, putting this belief into action with community service activities. Virtually all Millennial high school students (80%) participate in a community service activity. Two decades ago when all high school students were Gen-Xers, only a quarter (27%) did so.”
Over and over again I hear people, sometimes even online marketing people, talk about the narcissism of young people for creating a MySpace page or a Facebook profile. How totally disconnected! There’s no where else to go anymore… Our world is too spread out, too dangerous, and too focused on consumerism for young people to have a safe, close, free place to hang out. The one place that is available is the Internet. FB and MS are like saying “hi… I’m Sarah… I like architecture and pictures of kittens…”
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