Every generation has its own idiosyncrasies. But since Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living adult age group in the US, let's focus on them.
Because generations are analytical constructs, it usually takes time for popular and expert consensus to develop their precise boundaries, but it has been widely accepted that Millennials are born between 1981 and 1996.
These ladies and gentlemen have witnessed a massive shift in technology, the economy, and business throughout their lifetime, so they are generally good at accepting change. They're curious, value teamwork, and visit the library more than any other age group.
But to paint you a more accurate picture of these folks, we at Bored Panda gathered a collection of tweets, where people single out all the things Millennials do and say that make them, well, Millennials.
From texting "lol" to breaking out into a song when you're upset, continue scrolling to check out the entries and upvote the ones you agree with the most!
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Over the past 50 years – from the Silent Generation’s young adulthood to that of Millennials today – the US has undergone large cultural and societal shifts. But now that the youngest Millennials are adults, we can take a look at how they compare with those who were their age in the generations that came before.
Millennials, for example, are much better educated than their grandparents, as the share of young adults with a bachelor's degree or higher has steadily climbed since 1968. Around four-in-ten (39%) of those ages 25 to 37 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with just 15% of the Silent Generation, roughly a quarter of Baby Boomers and about three-in-ten Gen Xers (29%) when they were the same age.
I'm angry about that too. You only do that with new cheap wood, not antique.
I do it because I'm not good at composing spoken sentences.
Boomer women surged into the workforce as young adults, setting the stage for more Gen X and Millennial females to follow suit.
In 1966, when Silent Generation women were ages 22 through 37, a majority (58%) were not participating in the labor force (about 40% were employed).
For Millennial women today, 72% have a job while just a quarter are not in the labor force. Boomer women were the turning point. As early as 1985, more young Boomer women were employed (66%) than were not in the labor force (28%).
I actually prefer when people send a few short messages instead of a long one. I have the attention span of a goldfish, the chances that I'll skip and miss something in a long-a*s paragraph are quite high.
Yeah those huge texts, come on. Can't you say it in a few words?
Load More Replies...We grew up with character limits on texts, some people never adapted when that changed.
I can't speak to why millenials do it, but I do it because that's how my thoughts work. Type, hit send, think of something else I wanted to say...
Because when we started it was 5/10p a text and we love that they're now unlimited.
Why do you care? You’re texting us too. And responding and reading what we are sending.
I do this and I am firmly Gen X. it is because this is how I think and speak. Also I want each sentence to be evaluated on its own, not in conjunction with a lot of other thoughts/comments.
It’s because we used to have to pay per text. We now exploit the c**p out of the fact that unlimited texting is part of all cell plans. We are making up for all the texts we couldn’t send back when they were $0.25 each.
Okay but actually, our first phones had a numeric keyboard and a character limit. You had to be efficient!
I would strangle someone who did this. Obnoxious. That being said, I do this on zoom chat a lot :)
It does bugs me. It makes everything seem extremely disjointed, which for me makes it harder to process than a regularly flowing paragraph with standard punctuation. And when writing I like to get all my thoughts down at once instead of having to repeatedly hit send
I'd prefer jumping down a few lines to delineate messages without bombarding en masse both when I have multiple, separate things need saying and in response to multiple topics
It denotes a new sentence. And, personally I don't care for the taste of periods.
I send a bunch of messages because it helps me get my point across in less words. When I write a paragraph it ends up being one run-on sentence, with lots of unnecessary extra detail. Writing a few, short messages helps me be more concise and makes the person on the other end have to do less reading.
Lol I actually agree. I prefer to write something up, proofread it then send it. It's so annoying to get 14 messages buzzing my phone over and over. Not to mention that not everyone has a phone plan. I really don't use my cellphone often. I mainly have it for emergencies and occasional calls or to use google maps. I can't imagine paying 50-100 bucks a month for a stupid phone plan, I just have a Tracfone. I bought the phone *and* plan for an 120 bucks and it's for the whole year. It's a nice Samsung Galaxy phone, and I get a year worth of service and about 1500 texts and a bunch of data and calls. I never ever use them all. I sometimes use up my data but it's still pretty rare with wifi just about everywhere these days. So every time someone texts me, it's taking away from my text allotment. It's not a huge deal but if you're trying to keep it from going over, it becomes an issue having 30 texts that could have been one.
We stared w Alcatel.. google it :) another old habit! Like chat rooms and icq
Despite a reputation for job hopping, Millennial workers are just as likely to stick with their employers as Gen Xers were when they were the same age.
Roughly seven-in-ten of each group ages 22 to 37 in 2018 (70%) reported working for their current employer for at least 13 months. (About three-in-ten of both groups said they’d been with their employer for at least five years.)
However, it's worth mentioning that the economy varied for each generation. While the Great Recession affected Americans broadly, it created a particularly challenging environment for Millennials entering the job market. The unemployment rate was especially high for America’s youngest adults in the years just after the recession, a reality that would impact Millennials' future earnings and wealth.
I'm a millennial, and I do it because I don't know how to end sentences :P
And you unironically wear our clothes from the early 2000s. Shut up, kid.
The financial well-being of Millennials is complicated. While the individual earnings for young workers have remained mostly flat over the past 50 years, there's a notably large gap between what Millennials who have a college education make and the ones without it.
Millennials with a bachelor's degree or more and a full-time job had median annual earnings valued at $56,000 in 2018, roughly equal to those of college-educated Generation X workers in 2001.
But Millennials with some college or less had annual earnings lower than their counterparts in prior generations.
While young adults, in general, do not have much accumulated wealth, Millennials possess slightly less than Boomers did at the same age.
The median net worth of households headed by Millennials (ages 20 to 35 in 2016) was about $12,500 in 2016, compared with $20,700 for households headed by Boomers of the same age in 1983.
And the median net worth of Gen X households at the same age was about $15,100.
The difference in wealth can be partly attributed to differences in debt by generation. Compared with those who came earlier, more Millennials have outstanding student debt, and the amount of it they owe tends to be greater.
In fact, the share of young adult households with any student debt doubled from 1998 (when Gen Xers were between 20 to 35) to 2016 (when Millennials were that age).
In addition, the median amount of debt was nearly 50% greater for Millennials with outstanding student debt ($19,000) than for Gen X debt holders when they were young ($12,800).
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Also, Millennials, who, again, were hit hard by the Great Recession, have been slower in forming their own households than previous generations.
They’re more likely to live in their parents’ homes and also more likely to be at home for long stretches.
In 2018, 15% of Millennials (ages 25 to 37) were living with their folks. This is nearly double the share of early Boomers and Silents (8% each) and 6 percentage points higher than Gen Xers who did so when they were the same age.
What’s more, millennials’ discretionary income is shrinking with inflation, Redfin finds. Even though their average income has increased 9.7% since 2020, rising costs for housing, food, and gas have increased their expenses by about 17%.
Rental costs have become particularly expensive, with median monthly rents up 13.5% year over year in July.
“This is a rough patch right now for millennials,” said Redfin senior economist Sheharyar Bokhari. “But their long-term prospect is that they will be making more money as they get older, get into ownership and become the main force driving the economy.”
*me wearing one while I type this* I don't know what you're talking about!!
Idk, but one of my classmates does that and it used to make me feel guilty for not doing something. Pretty much one of our conversations:her:"would you like to come to my b-day on saturday?" me:"Sorry, I'm busy that day." her:"Oh, ok....". Can someone explain why she does that?
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These generation classifications don't make sense. People born 15 years apart, eg 81-96, grew up in very different worlds yet are apparently part of the same generation.
Thanks for clarifying, I was going to ask which birth years count as millennial. But yes, agree, 81 or 96 is quite a difference, lol...
Load More Replies...Please stop with these X vs Y articles it only maintains real or supposed oppositions, especially supposed in fact.
But that’s bored panda’s schtick…every other article is about shaming others, X people got Y thing wrong and “just had” to share, etc. Seems to get the clicks too, maybe it makes people feel better about themselves *shrug*
Load More Replies...Millenials, can we please kill the generational trend of punching down on the next generation? How about instead we celebrate the nuances and quirks that make us different and reach down to lift up Gen Z?
Whyyyy does BP change headlines!? It was "annoying things millennials do", then "...statements that feel like a personal attack", now it's "stereotypical things millennials tend to do"...
Now it's "Things That Scream 'I Am A Millenial.'"
Load More Replies...All these b******t about different generations and forcing up hate and fights ... Now, that we're finally a step closer to accepting different colored skins and different sexual preferences, we should not start another stupid thing about differences. It's only about when someone's been born ... hey, people, the other gens are your children, your grandchildren, your parents, your grandparents ... start talking again to build bridges and please don't go on and fight, because we all live on this planet NOW! Spread love, not hate!
I agree I want to up lift other women not teir them down sorry if my phone miss spells but yes let's spread love not hate.
Load More Replies...2022... Where you must identify as a letter, tick only ONE box or be in a category. So much for individuality eh?
Another issue with the article are most of these complaints about how people act when they get older it's not generational. Strangely enough and the number of things are actually really wrong boomers didn't cover up hardwood floors of carpet those were the people trying to remove the carpet to get to the hardwood floors.
Happy to be a Gen Xer who just sits back and enjoys these fights among generations; no one has much to say about us, good or bad.
I can't understand the style of wearing jeans with holes where the knees should be... Some people actually buy new jeans, take a straight razor, and cut open the knees because this is the latest cool street style... huh? You just wrecked a $25 pair of new jeans??? Just because someone wears an old pair where the knees have worn out & think it is cool??
I'm amused by the fact that Gen X, the original latchkey generation, was completely unmentioned/conveniently overlooked while Boomers were again swiped at in passing.
If the are all the things millennials do and like, where can I find gen Z? Because this seems to describe every online interaction, so does gen Z do the same as millennials?
Okay, speaking as a millennial, this is hilarious. Even though I can't relate to majority of what's on this list but clearly we have hurt someone's feelings and I'm sorry.
Technically Millennials are born from 1981 to 1996... generation Z is from 1997 to 2012...
It was funny watching all the millennials get mad and try to defend themselves
I'm a Millenial and honestly don't understand this bizarre "generational war." I frankly think that Generation Z is pretty darn cool. They don't take any c**p and stand up for positive change and what they believe in.
Load More Replies...Millennials would be my kids. Kids born around 2001. You know, the millennium. That's how it was first described what a millennial was and then a certain point the millennials got mad got online and changed it to being born back in the '80s and '90s which is nonsensical.
These generation classifications don't make sense. People born 15 years apart, eg 81-96, grew up in very different worlds yet are apparently part of the same generation.
Thanks for clarifying, I was going to ask which birth years count as millennial. But yes, agree, 81 or 96 is quite a difference, lol...
Load More Replies...Please stop with these X vs Y articles it only maintains real or supposed oppositions, especially supposed in fact.
But that’s bored panda’s schtick…every other article is about shaming others, X people got Y thing wrong and “just had” to share, etc. Seems to get the clicks too, maybe it makes people feel better about themselves *shrug*
Load More Replies...Millenials, can we please kill the generational trend of punching down on the next generation? How about instead we celebrate the nuances and quirks that make us different and reach down to lift up Gen Z?
Whyyyy does BP change headlines!? It was "annoying things millennials do", then "...statements that feel like a personal attack", now it's "stereotypical things millennials tend to do"...
Now it's "Things That Scream 'I Am A Millenial.'"
Load More Replies...All these b******t about different generations and forcing up hate and fights ... Now, that we're finally a step closer to accepting different colored skins and different sexual preferences, we should not start another stupid thing about differences. It's only about when someone's been born ... hey, people, the other gens are your children, your grandchildren, your parents, your grandparents ... start talking again to build bridges and please don't go on and fight, because we all live on this planet NOW! Spread love, not hate!
I agree I want to up lift other women not teir them down sorry if my phone miss spells but yes let's spread love not hate.
Load More Replies...2022... Where you must identify as a letter, tick only ONE box or be in a category. So much for individuality eh?
Another issue with the article are most of these complaints about how people act when they get older it's not generational. Strangely enough and the number of things are actually really wrong boomers didn't cover up hardwood floors of carpet those were the people trying to remove the carpet to get to the hardwood floors.
Happy to be a Gen Xer who just sits back and enjoys these fights among generations; no one has much to say about us, good or bad.
I can't understand the style of wearing jeans with holes where the knees should be... Some people actually buy new jeans, take a straight razor, and cut open the knees because this is the latest cool street style... huh? You just wrecked a $25 pair of new jeans??? Just because someone wears an old pair where the knees have worn out & think it is cool??
I'm amused by the fact that Gen X, the original latchkey generation, was completely unmentioned/conveniently overlooked while Boomers were again swiped at in passing.
If the are all the things millennials do and like, where can I find gen Z? Because this seems to describe every online interaction, so does gen Z do the same as millennials?
Okay, speaking as a millennial, this is hilarious. Even though I can't relate to majority of what's on this list but clearly we have hurt someone's feelings and I'm sorry.
Technically Millennials are born from 1981 to 1996... generation Z is from 1997 to 2012...
It was funny watching all the millennials get mad and try to defend themselves
I'm a Millenial and honestly don't understand this bizarre "generational war." I frankly think that Generation Z is pretty darn cool. They don't take any c**p and stand up for positive change and what they believe in.
Load More Replies...Millennials would be my kids. Kids born around 2001. You know, the millennium. That's how it was first described what a millennial was and then a certain point the millennials got mad got online and changed it to being born back in the '80s and '90s which is nonsensical.