Millennials Get Asked What Confuses Them About Gen Z, And Here’re 30 Of Their Answers

Or maybe, just maybe, Gen Z are not a monolithic block who all behave exactly the same.

As for me (and probably millions out there), when we post something online, we can edit it and we have ample time to recheck everything and make sure it's perfect. When meeting others, not only are there fewer people who have the same interests as us, once we embarrass ourselves, it's permanent. We can't carefully assess our words and actions, and how might the outcomes turn out. So, yeah...

we dont like being around people at times as it mentally drians us but a lot of times we like to follow along on trends, if we post something it is completly different as it takes no human interaction

Some serious insecurity & lack of forming real person friendships. My millennial daughter's roommate in college was a Gen-Zer who had to do a selfie with everybody she met. The girl had no friends & rarely talked much in person with anybody. The other roommate was a Z'er but was pretty normal.

I can tell you EXACTLY why. We absolutely do NOT want to have any kind of attention thrown on us when we don't know what to say and we don't have something memorized in our heads. But, online, you can pick and choose your words, actions, and pictures to show to people carefully, making it way easier to talk online than in real life.

(speaks in over-50): "Ah you think video games are your ally? You merely adopted the games. I was born in them, molded by them."

I was there when PONG first came out, and have been hooked on video games ever since...I'm 70 now and still play them.

Does this mean there are kids out there who've never seen their parents play a game? How odd.

if i ever have kids then ill tell them about the fortnite fairy

Pong. I'll see my old butt out now.

'Cancel Culture' is a phrase invented by people who'd like to be able to continue to use racist terms..

Maybe if those people were actually sorry and took responsibility for their words and actions they wouldn't need to be cancelled. Instead they will often just downplay as something "they said a million years ago or was supposedly taken out of context".

My experience is exactly the opposite. Gen Z seems to be eager for forgiveness. I think cancel culture is a bit older than them.

When I read "we should cancel Eminem" by some little brat online, I literally lost it.

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Each to their own, but this is one I have noticed too. Being a teenager in the late 90s early 00s, it was all about not being defined by labels, and moving away from ideas that there were specific categories people could be assigned to. Now it seems people want to be categorised into very specific and defined boxes, with multiple sub categories to cover every varient individually.

The way I describe it is that by finding a label, it was easier to find others of that label, and therefore others of my community. I didn’t know it was OK that I wasn’t a girl until I found the labels transgender and non-binary, which led me to find others like me and develop a sense of self.

I guess it depends on what your "label" is. I went undiagnosed and untreated for ADHD for decades. Getting proper diagnosis and treatment has been life-changing. I prefer "neurodivergent" if I have to explain, because it's specific enough that people know I have a mental difference and don't expect me to be typical, doesn't have the same connotation as illness or disorder, and is otherwise vague enough to leave me a little privacy if I don't want to go into detail. I think it's helpful to self label so you can find like individuals and communities if you want. That's different than being labeled by your school or parents or bullies or the government. 🤷

These days everything and everyone must have a label. Apparently.

I think this is because we want to know who we want to be. If we decide we don't like our label, we can change them if needed. It personally helps me to be more free when people know what to expect of me, and that I can always change what I want to be classified as.

It never has looked good, it never will look good.

I want to ask the same about low rise jeans and skinny eyebrows. Please don’t. Learn from our mistakes.

Why is this #8? It was atrocious is the 80/90's and it's still is. It's like publicly saying to the world "I do not want to have sexual relations with (insert choice of gender)." XD ... although... some women do look sexy with a shag..

I love a good mullet. Shag, even better.

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Kinda hypocritical, isn't it? Many millennials are like this too.

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I have been a part of two employment terminations over internet posts. It was not fun, and neither employee realized that making those posts (one violent and one racist) while also associating themselves with the company was wrong.

As a gen z, even I don't even understand it.

LOLOL. My favorite was a girl who went home sick from work one day. A few hours later, she texted about how drunk she was at a party on social media. New job opening available…..🤣. Dumb-de-dumb.

Yeah, the Internet is FOREVER and you will never escape your stupid decisions.

Oh, you sweet summer child. None of them (or us, Gen Xer here) skipped the “awkward phase”. We’re all still in it and just REALLY good at faking that we aren’t.

Oh trust me, I didn’t. Still in it I guess.

The internet makes people more careful, I think. With the whole cringe culture boom and all. In addition to all the other points here.

Its the parents that define their children's dress up. So if a child is already taught from toddler phase to always look cute and pretty, what matches and what not, to never get your nice clothes dirty, and that Starbucks is hip, well, how do you expect such a child to turn out as an adult, really?!