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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:42:33 +0000

She is very socially media conscious, her Twitter feed is hilarious.

By: LiLu

LiLu — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:36:46 +0000

The fact that she answered you? Proves that she is truly Gen-Y (read: social media savvy) conscious. .-= LiLu´s last blog ..Yes, a Whole Goddamn Post About the Hole in My Shirt =-.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:12:55 +0000

Lacochran: I’m just trying to be the hardest working, pretentious, prick I can be.

ajw_93: Hahaha you might need to bail me out if you knew what I was doing this weekend.

By: ajw_93

ajw_93 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:39:22 +0000

I’m with you Patrick, on the AIDS issue. I’d say it is much more life-changing for Gen-Xers like me, we were the ones coming of age when it was a scary unknown. Now, it’s still scary, but known and pretty well-understood by folks your age.

Right?

Please, don’t make me bail you out this weekend.
.-= ajw_93´s last blog ..Friday Cat Blogging – July 17, 2009 =-.

By: lacochran

lacochran — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:32:27 +0000

Well, look at you, all elbow-rubby. I can say "I knew him when." .-= lacochran´s last blog ..Sex and death, but not in that order =-.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:08:15 +0000

Jamie: No stereotype ever does, but I’m glad you can identify with parts of it because that means they might be close enough. I know I can identify with one or two of the traits.

Devon: Yes. That’s all I’m going to say for you. I think the many pretentious types out there make it hard for ones willing to work to get recognized.

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:43:25 +0000

I think firstly, no one ever wants to consider themselves pretentious or entitled and it’s difficult to see bad qualities in yourself, not to mention your generation. As I work at a college, I’m dealing with students of this generation on a daily basis. And yes, not all of them are pretentious, or have a sense of entitlement. But. A great many of them are. These ones are spoiled and lazy. They can’t do a darned thing for themselves, and more prudent to this conversation, they don’t have to because their parents are doing it for them. Their confidence comes off as arrogance. They don’t respect anyone or anything. I’m not the only one who experiences this. Our affiliate schools abroad constantly complain about the quality of American student we send abroad.

Now, maybe it’s due to the University where I’m employed. It’s a private college-and there are quite a few students here who don’t need financial aid. Does money breed that attiude, who knows. Though a far cry from my own college experience, I’m sure you could recount as well as I a few pretentious people we may have known, well off or not….

The tech-savvy-ness is completely true, and of course making our world one step closer to becoming just like Farenheit 451. You have to admit, it’s a little sad when students can’t go one class without texting their friends.

Of course, these points could entirely be moot. I’m teetering on the very edge of this generation (born in 1981), so I may identify more with the previous one, who didn’t have all that great of a rep either–Starbucks-drinking slackers, I believe? I guess every generation has it’s good and bad points-but I think instead of denying them, people should embrace them. You are what you are, afterall, and there’s no sense in thinking an entire generation is filled only with good points.

And for the record, I do drink a ton of Starbucks and I’ a complete slacker, who loves the environment, cares about her community and embraces tolerance and diversity. And let’s face it, I was a film major. I’m the definition of pretentious.