Response 2

After reading these two different articles it can be clear to say that many people view millennials differently. Between different age groups, different levels of education, and different ways of looking at life, the outlook and the final answer are hard to put together. Even though I believe myself to be a millennial I still think that we as a group have our negatives and we as a group have a re positives. We are the group of people that can search anything up in three seconds, figure out how to do something just by watching videos online, make changes in the world just by putting up a petition on our social medias, and do all our work online anywhere we go. We also are attached to our mobile devices and view social media as the way to life. If we didn’t get enough likes we aren’t as important as someone else, and if we don’t have the body of that famous super model we aren’t as beautiful as our parents say we are. In the article, The Me Me Me Generation, it states that “The problem is that when people try to boost self-esteem, they accidentally boost narcissism instead.” Our parents have created us to be the way we are. They are constantly telling us that we are perfect and better then the next person, and in one way it has helped but in another it has back fired. As we see in this article we are a generation of many accomplishments, and we getting raises, and promotions, but we are the center of attention for our parents and expect it that way from everyone. It all says that we “live off of the influence of our peers,” which in hand is true and is why we are seen as such a negative group. We do value others people’s opinions but not because we just want to, but because our parents had instilled it into our brains. We are also maturing at a slower rate than our parents did, because we have our friends on call twenty-four-seven, and we are no interacting with “adults,” as the Me Me Me Generation article says. This article also states that many are threatened by us because we have so much information at our hands, that we are creating apps, and coding, and making videos on YouTube and getting paid for it. Even though we are narcissistic or have high self-esteem we are getting things done and making progress in the world. We also have a problem of not being able to do the little things in life alone. As the Me Me Me Generation article states, we cannot do math in our heads or we can’t keep a job for more than two years, and the article, How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, states that we can’t even send a letter in the mail or do meaningless everyday tasks. We refrain from doing does little tasks because they are not as important as what we need to accomplish to be accomplished. In, How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, it looks at millennials are an older group of people who are “spoiled, entitled, lazy, and failures at whats come to be known as “adulting.”” Even though that might be true, it is still wrong in its way. As I see millennials we are a group of well-educated people who strive to be the best of the best. We do not care if we do not cook, or throw the trash out every other week, or have a messy room, because we are worried about our education and how to get a well-paying job and how to create something amazing for the world. How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, says that we are a burnout generation because we think we have to always be working. They are comparing us to our parents who lived a different life without all the technology we have. They got used to doing everything all the time because it was just something part of their lives. They got normal nine to five jobs that they hate and continue to hate them as the years go on. We as a generation don’t allow ourselves to fall into that category. We are striving for the best, the best job the best pay, the best education, the best in everything we do. Both articles bring out the positives and negatives in this so-called millennial generation, and they in some way get it correct. I believe that I am one of those millennials, and yes, I strive for the best, and yes every day tasks are a burden and seem pointless, but I am getting more done at the age of eighteen then my parents are at the ages of forty four and sixty one.