Generation Z

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-23-2010, 04:23 AM

Are supposed to be bigger fuck heads than generation X (my generation). Thoughts?

Article to help out: Meet Generation Z - Marie Claire Magazine - Yahoo!Xtra Lifestyle

~~Dirty~~ · 11-23-2010, 04:33 AM

Generation X says suck it!!!

**Janszoon** · 11-23-2010, 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Are supposed to be bigger fuck heads than generation X (my generation).

You aren't generation X, you're generation Y. Generation X is people born in the mid 60s through the 70s, like me.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-23-2010, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

You aren't generation X, you're generation Y. I'm generation X.

Wait...okay I got them mixed up. You're right I'm Y.

simplephysics · 11-23-2010, 07:48 AM

Generation Z... I wonder what we'll call the generation that follows them, Generation AA?

RVCA · 11-23-2010, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught

Generation Z... I wonder what we'll call the generation that follows them, Generation AA?

Yeah, these generation-naming people are about as creative as the hurricane-naming people.

LoathsomePete · 11-23-2010, 11:03 AM

This more or less sounds like the usual "this next coming generation will never amount to anything" spiel that EVERY generation seems to say. I can honestly say that I know absolutely nobody in Generation Z, my only encounters with kids are passing them while out and about, and they don't seem anymore unruly than my peers when I was their age. Like I said though, my experience with people from "Generation Z" is limited so I might be wrong and they all might be little Antichrists.

**Janszoon** · 12-01-2010, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

This more or less sounds like the usual "this next coming generation will never amount to anything" spiel that EVERY generation seems to say.

Yep. It always makes me think of this quote, which tells me people have been talking smack about the younger generation for a long, long time:

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

--Socrates

LoathsomePete · 12-01-2010, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Yep. It always makes me think of this quote, which tells me people have been talking smack about the younger generation for a long, long time:

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
--Socrates

Aww man I don't want to think of Socrates as a crotchity old fuck. It more or less reminds me of a book I read a few years ago called The Dumbest Generation: How The Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, I got about 50 pages in before I had to stop because it just read like a "listen here young whippersnappers, why back in my day we had to actually work for a living, we had to walk to school up hills both ways, blah blah blah." I lent it to a friend of mine who has a tendency to write comments in books, and within a week half the damn margins were full of counterpoints. It also reminds me of an article I read a few years ago from somewhere in New England where some old newspaper printings from the 18th century were discovered and there were some editorial sections complaining about the laziness of the coming generation, it was pretty much a paraphrase of that Socrates quote you found.

s_k · 11-26-2010, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught

Generation Z... I wonder what we'll call the generation that follows them, Generation AA?

Wiki:
It has been suggested that the next generation, born from 2010, will be called "Generation Alpha".

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