Humans on the planet are always evolving and creating new ways to get things accomplished. It can sometimes be hard to imagine living in a different generation than our own sometimes and to understand their lifestyle. Every generation of people are different in their own ways. The way people use technology varies vastly among ages. When people talk about generations, Millennials are the new emerging adults in the world. There are different names people use for Millennials. How are Millennials’ use of technology and lifestyle different from other generations? This matters because Millennials are the first generation where they don’t know a world without the internet and new technology. They have grown up with them throughout their
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There are many perspectives that can help understand Millennials more. Patricia Buckley, Peter Viechnicki, and Akrur Barua, whom are economists, wrote A New Understanding of Millennials: Generational Differences Reexamined. The article gives background on what makes a person specifically a Millennial and provides statistics to display generational differences. According to them, “Poor job prospects, as well as high levels of student debt, means that a sizable portion of the Millennial generation has started off with distinct disadvantages. The Great Recession hit young workers particularly hard. At its worst in October 2009, when overall unemployment hit 10.0 percent, the unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds was 15.8 percent; for 25- to 34-year-olds, the unemployment rate was 10.6 percent, while for those over 35, it was 7.9 percent.” This is a big difference between Millennials and the generations before them. That means that Millennials had an unemployment rate that was 5.8 percent higher than the overall national unemployment rate of 10 percent. Apart from that they also have the highest student debts compared to other generations. Postsecondary education costs substantially more than it used to. The worst part of it all …show more content…
He believes that this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Pariser said, “Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually, I was clicking more on my liberal friends ' links than on my conservative friends ' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.” The internet controls what people are looking at. Instead of giving a variety of information, it gives information that is specified toward the user. According to Pariser, the internet “leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.” When he says that he is talking about how the internet is now filtering results. People using the internet these days don’t get to see the whole internet. With a majority of the people using the internet being Millennials, Pariser’s insight leads to a belief that Millennials aren’t getting introduced to anything new. They keep getting results from the internet that a secluded to their beliefs and don’t get any new perspectives. The internet didn’t used to be like this. It used to give general information about everything if a person were to search something. Aagaard wrote on pg. 95, “Teachers sometimes link
There are many perspectives that can help understand Millennials more. Patricia Buckley, Peter Viechnicki, and Akrur Barua, whom are economists, wrote A New Understanding of Millennials: Generational Differences Reexamined. The article gives background on what makes a person specifically a Millennial and provides statistics to display generational differences. According to them, “Poor job prospects, as well as high levels of student debt, means that a sizable portion of the Millennial generation has started off with distinct disadvantages. The Great Recession hit young workers particularly hard. At its worst in October 2009, when overall unemployment hit 10.0 percent, the unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds was 15.8 percent; for 25- to 34-year-olds, the unemployment rate was 10.6 percent, while for those over 35, it was 7.9 percent.” This is a big difference between Millennials and the generations before them. That means that Millennials had an unemployment rate that was 5.8 percent higher than the overall national unemployment rate of 10 percent. Apart from that they also have the highest student debts compared to other generations. Postsecondary education costs substantially more than it used to. The worst part of it all …show more content…
He believes that this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Pariser said, “Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually, I was clicking more on my liberal friends ' links than on my conservative friends ' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.” The internet controls what people are looking at. Instead of giving a variety of information, it gives information that is specified toward the user. According to Pariser, the internet “leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.” When he says that he is talking about how the internet is now filtering results. People using the internet these days don’t get to see the whole internet. With a majority of the people using the internet being Millennials, Pariser’s insight leads to a belief that Millennials aren’t getting introduced to anything new. They keep getting results from the internet that a secluded to their beliefs and don’t get any new perspectives. The internet didn’t used to be like this. It used to give general information about everything if a person were to search something. Aagaard wrote on pg. 95, “Teachers sometimes link