Unveiling the
Millennial Conundrum: Breaking Stereotypes and Understanding Realities
There are great misconceptions
and suppositions in the society today that depict millennials as lazy and
highly dependent on social media. This is a supposition that is not playing
well with their older counterparts who consider these attributes bad and is
putting many youths at the risk of not getting employed or having it hard to
retain an employment opportunity. Millennials mostly comprise of a group of
youths born in the late eighties and the nineties. They are a group that was
born directly into technology and at a time where there were great developments
in business, transport and most of all communication. Also referred to as the
generation Z, they are considered very apathetic and very unaware of the
situations that surround them. They are considered to have shortness of
attention and have little care about what affects their generation and the rest
of the world. They are considered to only focus on aspects of technology and
mass media. These are stereotypes that affect every young generation. It is a
stage of life whereby the youths focus on more aspects of their [personal life
rather than what is around them. Most of these stereotypes are fueled by older generations threatened by
the youth’s prowess with technology, ability to multitask and being multi-talented.
One of the characteristics
associated with this misconception is over-reliance on technology. Most of the
youths are considered to spend a big portion of their lives on social media and
using smart devices such as phones tablets and laptops. The over-reliance of
technology has limited many youths to physical activity because they spend most
of their days indoors watching videos and communicating. They have forced them
to develop antisocial behavior whereby it becomes very difficult to get their
attention and get them to do anything.
These aspects lead to the
development of the stereotype that millennials are lazy. This stereotype can be
broken down using the following criteria for which older generations describe
them;
• They are apathetic
• They are inactive
• Spend too
much time browsing the internet
• Lack proper social skills
They are considered apathetic
because of their lack of interest in anything associated with their generation
as well as the world around them. They are perceived
as people that do not care and sometimes highly unreliable. They do not
contribute to aspects of politics and issues of society and sideline themselves
form the world. They are considered to be very inactive because they rather
spend their days using their smartphones to communicate and stay indoors rather
than spend time outdoors and interact with nature. They spend a huge part of
their lives on the internet. They are surrounded
by smart devices that range from smartphones, laptops and tablets and these
devices control most aspects of their lives. They use them to communicate and
take part in commerce especially due to the rise of online business. However,
social media has grown to become a very influential aspect of the society, and
many live in the digital world of social media. They are also considered to
have very minimal social skills because of their over-reliance on the internet
and being too apathetic.
The supposition that millennials
are lazy has generated great misconceptions that affect their lives. They get
marginalized during employment because of negative attitudes towards them from
people from older generations. However, are millennials lazy? As one of them, I
believe that this is a very wrong misconception and fails to observe the underlying
factors surrounding youths. Most millennials are
misunderstood, and this has led to the development of a disconnect with
the rest of society. Older generations alienate themselves from them because
they believe that most of them are narcissistic and apathetic. These negative
suppositions affect the lives of many youths especial when it comes to the
aspect of employment. One of the aspects is that millennials are not very
different from the other generations. Most of them are youths and the only
difference between the youths of today and those of the past is background. The
youths of today lie in an age of technology and information. There is a great
access to technology and information, and all of it is placed on smartphones which are accessible by anyone. They were
born with these devices, and they know a lot about handling computer devices
and using the internet. Social media and the internet is a great source of
information from any part of the world, and it is what informs most of them.
The prowess by youth in using
computer technology is, however, taken as a great threat to older individuals
especially in workplaces. ICT has become a fundamental aspect of business and
organization, and the youths are best suited for the workplace of today. The
demands for employment has also gone very high and require highly aggressive
individuals. Millennials are considered
as very aggressive because of experienced negative aspects of the society such
as terrorism; September 11 attacks and the great recession. They are,
therefore, molded to be very multitalented and aggressive. When coupled with
their great command of computer technologies, they become great threats to
people of the previous generation. They are more educated and strive for high
levels of success. These aspects have generated great levels of insecurity and
have become a major developer of negativity towards millennials.
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