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Generations are really about cultural change. By studying generations, we can get an idea of
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how growing up now as a child or a teen
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is different from it was for say the Gen Xers growing up in the 80s or the Boomers growing up in the 1960s.
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Looking specifically at numbers we define Gen Z as those born between 1995 and 2012.
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1995 just happens to be the year the internet was commercialized so that also captures the generation of people who were born
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after the internet existed who don't know a world without the Internet.
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Compared to previous generations, they spend a lot more time communicating with their friends
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electronically and
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they also spend less time
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hanging out with their friends in person. My generation were truly digital natives
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We've really only known a world where our phones are smart
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You know we turn to technology for a lot of things whether it be entertainment, research, education. It's truly
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Just part of what we are
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I'm not entirely convinced that iGen's skill with social media is going to be a complete positive
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It's also linked to depression and anxiety
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and
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unhappiness
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Especially for people who are spending too much time on social media who are comparing themselves to others too much
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You know people always talk about taking digital detoxes and stepping away for a little bit
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And I don't know if it's necessarily cutting out the phone for a month at a time
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But understanding that it's okay to put down your phone for a couple hours
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Don't have it at the dinner table, try not to be on your phone right before bed
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There's just time and a place for everything and I think understanding that is really important
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I think some of the parents can do to help with us anxiety the phones and information overload is really helping them sort of
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Analyze and prioritize the information is what we find is something
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That's definitely needed with this generation.
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At the moment what many people think of when they think of iGen is
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Teen or a young adult, you know looking at his or her phone
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But I think they'll become known for other things as time goes on.
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one of our traits that you know is very
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Upfront with my generation is that we're very very realistic at a young age
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We were thrown into a world that you could say wasn't the prettiest you know we grew up amongst a 2009 recession after
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9/11 and our parents didn't tell us we could necessarily be whatever we wanted they told us that it's a hard world out there
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You're gonna have to work your butt off, and if you're not willing to there's plenty of others that will
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gen z entering the workforce
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it's gonna be a lot of change for Gen Z if I can log on and log in I'm at work so I think the
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Physical office is really gonna be challenged another thing that we know about this generation
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They're really gonna challenge is the pace at which things get done everyone talks about work/life balance
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You know I got my work and my life and work's from 9:00 to 5:00, and then your life
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And how do we balance the two?
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What I love about Gen Z is
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They just don't think it works
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And it really hasn't work what they go for is work/life blend where work and life are seven days a week 24 hours a day
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By spring of their senior year iGen teens are less likely compared to previous generations to have their drivers license
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To work at a paid job to go out of dates to drink alcohol
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And we've already seen this with Millennials and young adulthood taking longer to settle into careers to married to have children
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And so on so the whole developmental trajectory is slowed down
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Gen Z is by far the most diverse generation ever, and we're also the most interconnected
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around the globe and part of the reason is
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You know now with our generation when something happens the entire world finds out immediately through social media through hashtags were always
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Connected to each other so we feel as though whether it happened in the same building or a thousand miles away it is
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immediately affecting us because we hear about it and so there we feel obligated to help and be a part of the situation whether it's
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Positive or negative. They are also the one that values equality the most whether we're talking about race or gender or
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sexual orientation or transgender issues
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They're really much more open
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And focused on equality we really do not fear failure
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So whether it be through political activation or entering a new workplace or trying new things
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We're willing to try something and failed and this doesn't have a great impact on the other
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generation for the rest of us who have been so cautious that's gonna really rub off to get us to step outside our box and
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Maybe try some new things
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