They also like booze, drugs, and putting more effort into Facebook relationships than real ones. This generation will win the hotly contested prize for The Greatest Failed Generation in our history. Mark that down.
Well, I'm sure that every young generation has been evaluated as the "laziest, least-working, least-dedicated, etc etc, EVER" by its predecessors. All the way back to "Og have no respect for elder. Sit all day and draw on cave wall!"
There are a few disruptors. The ubiquitous presence of cell phones has changed the dynamic of personal interaction. I watched "The Breakfast Club" (a 'coming of age' movie popular when *I* was part of the lazy, slack, no-working, etc etc etc generation) with my wife. Her comment was "Had this movie been made today, the kids would have sat there, surfed all day on their cell phones, then gone home having said nothing to anyone. The End." A good point, sez me.
The "Look-at-me-ism" of Facebook has never been available, either. I'm wondering what will happen when the kids of today try to get a 'real' job at age 35, and their employer pulls up photos of the naked keg stands they did in HS at age 17. The internet never forgets.
I thank God every day that Facebook wasn't around when I was that age, who knows what would have been posted. :-)
I'm interested to see what the blowback to all this is, as well. I'm guessing that "Privacy" will be a #1 topic, in the generation to come.