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I think there are unifying factors to our generation but they aren't positive... Certainly not something Christians would be fond of.
Millennials were the first to go full speed into technology as it stands today.... With that being said, much of the media mischaracterizes us. They think we are dumb and know nothing prior to today's tech and that would be Gen Z. I am a millennial but I grew up with records, cassette tapes, VHS, a Sony Walkman, a home phone with a cord, dial up internet, beepers, playing outside, X Games being the biggest sporting event on TV (I watched Tony Hawk do the first 900 live in 1999 I believe it was) and so on. I remember waiting in line at a record store for a new release or going inside to listen to vinyl on the store headphones to see if I'd like the record. The issue, #1 is this forum also mislabels us. Millennials according to the census is 1980 to 1994. I will also say this. Someone born in 1980 will be a world apart from someone born in 1994. I was born in 1989, my younger brother in 1995. I grew up on video games where you had to be in the same room. Playstation, N64, Game Cube, Nintendo, Sega Dreamcast... He grew up with online systems like Xbox live, PS3 and so on.
As far as the internet goes, I remember AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) and the loads of chat rooms everyone said to stay away from lol..
Myspace came along and then all of the others. We are the first generation to access inappropriate content online. You no longer needed to buy DVDs or magazines to have it and that changed A LOT with our generation from the last. Countless articles suggest millennials are less active at doing "you know what" with others than Gen X was and inappropriate content is probably the reason why.
To put it in short, millennials are really the first that embraced a world of artificial pleasures compared to the real versions (food, sex, family), fantasy worlds (virtual reality, virtual player games, pleasing your social media audience while drowning in debt, self hate and depression), independence (not getting married, not having kids, being self employed or not staying in the same job very long), and the list goes on.