Millennials think getting drunk is pathetic and embarrassing

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I read something about this the other day

metro.co.uk/2017/09/27/millennials-think-getting-drunk-is-pathetic-and-embarrassing-6958560/

I'm "late millenial", I presume this survey is more from those at the other end. Being early 30s I have friends on both sides of the bordering generations; I must admit, if I scroll down my Facebook newsfeed on an average weekend, I see more photos of my 37-45 year old friends getting hammered than I do of friends in their 20s. Drunken selfies, videos of them being raucous, pictures pretending to grope each other, blurry pics - it does come across a bit cringey at times.

I think that millennials get a hard time and called narcissists (and sometimes that's deserved), but I do think there's a generation in the "born in the 70s, with kids under 13, middle class" category whose decorum on social media could give millennials a run for their money at times
I realise that's a sweeping statement but that's based on my own personal experience so I hope it doesn't cause offence.

I'm 27 and my parents who are in their late 40s go out and get drunk more often than me. (Granted, I'm a single parent)

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I reckon millennials are just more social media savvy.

They don't post embarrassing drunk pics on Facebook, that doesn't mean they dont get drunk (or take drugs).

I'm early 30s and I don't think millenials know how to party like we did (or at least I did). Not from what I've seen anyway.

There's a few articles saying millenials aren't having sex, drinking, doing drungs, smoking, leaving home as much or as young as generation x did. Although the massive drop in teen pregancy and youth smoking is a good thing.

I kind of get the fear I'll grow up with all the young people around me being likeSaffron Monsoon from Ab Fab.

I'm intrested in millenials because on one hand their the most open generation in some ways and other ways vary puritanical and self regulated (at least a lot of the university educated ones in my experiance). I'm sure every generation has looked at those either side with a level of indifference. But I must admit I enjoyed generation x (my liver not so much) and wouldn t want to be a milenial.

Is it because lots of millennials only know how to socialise on social media now, and going to the pub feels like a massive faff?

Isn’t it more that Facebook is a bit passé and they’re all on Snapchat?

Can someone please define what era a millennial is supposed be from?

I'm 34 and apparently one of the first millennials - turned 18 in 2000.
Most of my friends aged say 26-34 get drunk but mostly at home and passed uni age not falling down in the street.

A lot of the people I know who are under 25 - so I think they are often considered something else (gen z according to an article I read) only drink at home and little at that.

That said it's all balls really, isn't it?

Newspapers now use "millennial" to mean people in their 20s and have been using the same term for 5 years but not changing the age group they are referring to.

I'm 25 so I fit I guess

I go out once a year drinking, have three children a husband a house and an allotment

I have no want or time time to be out up town (it's a dive anyway, I won't even shop there) getting drunk. I would much rather order in a curry and watch a movie with a bottle of wine.

Personally I just don't feel the need to be in a group of people hanging out together all the time. Sure my fb/insta/twitter is full of people but I rarely post on any. I'm a homebody who would love to live in the middle of nowhere and live off my own land.

I think getting drunk makes me both poor and poorly so is best avoided...

I don't think it's pathetic and embarrassing! But it is probably the cost in all honesty that puts people off now.

I have a group of friends of a similar age to me, and whilst we were all relatively well behaved in our teens, getting drunk and shenanagins was seen as the norm.

We now all have children aged 15-25 and their attitudes to drink and social time are very different. It wouldn't occur to them to spend their evenings getting pissed and then running across the park in the nude. Or whatever.

I find it odd. But in a good way.

Ridesallyride at 34 I think you make it into the Xennial category - almost a millenial but grew up without mobile phones. Or something. Look it up!

I remember going for a night of in Lincoln not so long ago. As a young Airman I was out in Lincoln about twice a week. It was always packed full of students getting off their tits. Last time it was so strange. It's like the old have inherited the earth. Lots of the people in the pubs and bars where now 40-50 age group. Very freaky.

I'm 33 for context

RideSally you are absolutely right. People talk at cross purposes about millenials as some mean teens/20s and some mean mid 20s - mid 30s.

My impression is that the younger generation (gen z) are not big drinkers so I'd guess they mean these in the article.

well I do. I'm 30. my social life is dire because i refuse to hang around with drunk people.

Are you surprised?

When we partied with our friends and got drunk / high, there were sometimes whole nights that hardly anyone could remember - but we knew we'd had fun.

These days as soon as anyone does anything slightly out of the ordinary someone's got their phone out and within seconds it's all over social media where the aresholes delight in making you feel bad about it. If you're really unlucky it gets passed round the whole school - or the world.

Damn right I'd be cautious about getting drunk in that kind of environment.

Poor sods.

Oh won't someone think of the publicans!

At least the baby boomers and generation x have all the wealth or the booze industry would be down the drain.

If I were at university now I would be much more wary of spending so much money getting drunk every night because my degree was costing so much in the first place.

It was all bebo and MySpace as a teen. Everything we did ended up on there and msn group chats and aol chat rooms. We had phones with cameras just. I think these days teens 13-16 year olds do the drunk sex in fields running naked etc rather than waiting till uni. My brother has not long left uni and they used to go pole dancing no evidence on facey/snappy/insta so I don't think it's purely a social media fear.

I have a couple of offspring in their early 20s. They certainly like a drink and also move in circles where everyone takes lots of party drugs. But many of their friends come across as butter wouldn't melt vegan types.