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.

According to the above apparently I am a millenial. I don't feel like a millenial, don't act like one and my life is pretty alien from what most millenials. Having said that I do know a few people my age who are more like millenials, mainly middle class kids who I went to school with who went to uni and then realised their degree was of little value and returned to their parents house. Others I know like me didnt waste time with uni, got out into the big bad world on our own from school and have done well for our shelfs. Out of my close group of mates most of us didn't go to uni (plus one dropped out because they realised it was a waste of time) and all of us that have been most successful are the ones that didn't go to uni. I suppose we got a head start in our careers over them that went to uni and had gap years etc.

I do wonder if universities are encouraging independent living and free thinking or if they are just sausage factories of warm comfortable safe spaces adverse to offering challenging and uncomfortable challenges. I do have a friend who is a lecturer (she the only person I know who has done really well as a direct result of her uni education) she says that half her students expect good results because they pay so much money. There is also pressure from her boses to give good marks even when the are not deserving. No wonder their generation is so entitled.

wonder, now, if that creates people who are afraid of not being praised. If the 5 year old was never told "actually, that wasn't what I wanted you to do" but was always instead told "Well, I can see you made a lot of effort on this"... How do we expect them to cope with getting things wrong as they get older? We haven't let them practise acknowledging they have made a mistake and moving on from it....

Not just that but they are completely risk averse and have never been told to get on with it. I'm constantly shocked by threads on MN referring to "children" not too many years younger than me.

You can have drunken nights up putting the world to rights in mummy's living room.

And the amount of posters who say "well if they waste their money on rent, they'll never get a house". Which is true, but also, fuck that. You don't need to go straight from mum's to a white picket fence

I'm also apparently a millennial but first I was genx and then gen Y. So they've obviously not got their generations sorted yet.

I don't think early thirties have anything in common with younger people because of the difference and in some cases total lack of social media in their youth.

I agree with Taco

To a late teen, early 30's is ancient.