Still reaching adulthood today, the Millennial Generation are classified from those who reached adulthood from 1999 till now. The Millennial generation is named so as they lived through the Millennium. This generation is often seen as selfish and narcissistic as they have grown up through a technology boom, where taking “selfies” and promoting yourself on social media has become pop culture. But the generation is not just interested in themselves, they have witnessed tragedy through terrorism, watched wars unfold, have had to learn how to protect themselves from not only a physical threat, and are adapting to the ever-changing political and social world around them.
The biggest, world changing event to have happened in the Millennial generation …show more content…
Y2K and the “millennial bug” that caused concern for technology all over the world. The fear was that the dates in the computers would be reset to 00, resetting all the computers data from banks, records-keeping and healthcare. This caused a panic, resulting in many citizens removing all their money from the banks and keeping it at home in case all their money was lost from the bug. An interesting personal story, my mother was working in a bank in Australia at that time, she had to work on New Year’s Eve in 1999. A man threatened to drive his car through the bank window because the bank was unable to give him all his savings in physical cash, even though she tried to reassure him that the bug had been fixed, he still wanted his money. That day they were also threatened and spat on because they were unable to give the customers their money, the panic was real. It resulted in many police phone calls and security guards guiding them to their cars that evening. This wide spread panic eventually died off when nothing happened as the clocks turned to midnight in the year 2000. Leaving the Millennial generation, a bit warier when it came to other panics like the Mayan Calendar ending. They did not see anything happen in the year 2000, and now the generation was sure they were not going to see anything happen when the calendar
The biggest, world changing event to have happened in the Millennial generation …show more content…
Y2K and the “millennial bug” that caused concern for technology all over the world. The fear was that the dates in the computers would be reset to 00, resetting all the computers data from banks, records-keeping and healthcare. This caused a panic, resulting in many citizens removing all their money from the banks and keeping it at home in case all their money was lost from the bug. An interesting personal story, my mother was working in a bank in Australia at that time, she had to work on New Year’s Eve in 1999. A man threatened to drive his car through the bank window because the bank was unable to give him all his savings in physical cash, even though she tried to reassure him that the bug had been fixed, he still wanted his money. That day they were also threatened and spat on because they were unable to give the customers their money, the panic was real. It resulted in many police phone calls and security guards guiding them to their cars that evening. This wide spread panic eventually died off when nothing happened as the clocks turned to midnight in the year 2000. Leaving the Millennial generation, a bit warier when it came to other panics like the Mayan Calendar ending. They did not see anything happen in the year 2000, and now the generation was sure they were not going to see anything happen when the calendar