I need a rant about millennials

The problem is the size of these "generation". The upbringing, experiences and outlooks of someone born in 1981 and 1996 are totally different.

Millienials generally are the only generation who COULD have experienced an Internet free/limited (or at least social media free) childhood AND one with unlimited social media. That is huge thing.

Millenials (and very late gen x) were also the first to pay uni fees, but very much encouraged to go.

A lot of millenials are very annoying.... a bit like a lot of Gen X who were the last to benefit from free uni and low housing prices are very annoying.

Ha ha as I said above about raves, it’s so true, they make everything about themselves

So why was 9/11 more of an event?

So you are going to extrapolate from one post on SM by an American that "it's an American thing"? That's as clueless as taking one post and applying it to a whole generation.

Ageism (against the young) and anti-Americanism in one fell swoop.

And since the reference was to "healing," I would like to add that the thing we Americans of all generations need healing from these days is the divisiveness that has plagued us for the last several years. And the influx of so many people from other countries, including and maybe especially, the Tartan Army, has given us a chance to come together, however briefly, to appreciate and be welcoming to people from other cultures and to enjoy how much they appear to love being here. And that has definitely been healing and not just for millennials.

Bostonians have even forgiven the Scots for drinking Boston dry.

I did live through them, if you lived in London they were a feature of your childhood My Dad was in the Hilton when it was blown up in 75 (?) I wasn't born then but I am well aware of that.

Isn't it part of being young, to think that everything is about you?
I think one of the most important things about growing older & wiser is that you come to see your whole existence in a much bigger context, realising you are a very small part of something that existed long before you and which will go on after you've gone

DC1 is a millennial, as are several nephews and nieces , along with friends adult DCs. I don't recognise what you are saying in comparison to them. I've never heard one of them link healing a major event.

It’s not a competition but again, those who lived through the IRA bombings etc wouldn’t necessary see it as defining event

I get what you’re saying, op, i’m a Xennial with Millennial friends and Gen X and it’s true, Millenials often claim a lot of things for themselves, it can be really annoying! Recent video on Ig about raves and going to outdoor, secret raves etc that you didn’t know about until the last minute, the millennial claiming old school raving as hers. I was just a bit too young when this was happening, but was around for a lot of the old school house music, Hacienda etc. Older millennials aren’t as bad as younger ones though who had a v different upbringing than Gen X etc

Really? I think it was one of the most defining events in modern history. Within my family we literally phoned each other up about it and it was the talking point by everyone I knew. We were in London though and older sibling was working in the City.

Two things can be true:

1. You had to work to buy a house
2. You had to work less and it was easier than it would be to do the same thing now.

I bought my first house in 2015. Was that a great or easy time to buy? It didn't feel it. Was I very fortunate to be able to buy then rather than being the same age now? Yes.

Ooh. Some of it does. Impact you directly. Why do you think prices have gone up ?

It is quite navel gazing to say that you had it uniquely bad because you were scared of the possibility of a thing that didn't actually happen, though... And if we're going to play that game of Top Trumps, Gen Z clearly wins with climate change.

I don’t think the comments of a single person are indicative of the thought process of an entire generation.

Well if it was so easy to do it years ago why did you not buy then? I am your age and bought my house in 2003. It was not 'easy' I still had to work to get a mortgage and was on much lower wages than I am now and it irritates me when people comment on how 'lucky' I was to have bought when I did when it was sheer hard bloody work and nothing to do with luck.

I can't make head nor tail of your post.

Perhaps it's my millennial stupidity?

I think this is it in a nutshell. Every other generation has had busts/crises preceded by or followed by booms in a pretty cyclical way. Millennials have not had that. It has just been crisis after a crisis after crisis with no opportunity to bounce back or recover. It’s not great for the soul.

Also not as big as an entire generation believing that they would die by the time they were 20 from AIDS or nuclear war.

You don’t hear as much about it because we don’t generally whinge about it. So people dismiss the experiences of my and previous generations because we tend to avoid the navel gazing

Surely 9/11 impacted Gen X the most and Boomers, in terms of literal impact. Obviously, the consequences of 9/11 would have been just as a great on millennials.

You have a point OP. Growing up in the 80s under thatcher and Reagan wasn’t a picnic. Or maybe it made us tougher?

Millennial here - and pretty stereotypically so given the amount of social media memes I relate to on the topic.

I have no need for healing, and whether the world is healed or not has little to no bearing on my day to day life. I’ve literally never described an event as healing, and can’t imagine I ever would.

I'm a millennial and have no idea what that person is on about, nor do I have a particular desire to heal. If anything i think millennials as a generation went through a significant amount of change in a short space so are generally resilliant. She sounds nuts tbh, I also don't comment on posts like that on social media as I feel they attract odd people...

I think it's normal for every generation of young people to think the world is about them and for them. I was like that. Can't say I've noticed anything specific about millennials.