30 Things Millennials Grew Up With, But Generation Z Doesn’t Know Anything About

You won't understand our struggles.

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Published in Funny
19 Jul 2020

30 Things Millennials Grew Up With, But Generation Z Doesn’t Know Anything About

The differences between generations are nothing new, but the progress of technology in the last century, and especially in the last two decades, has made those differences much more visible. While changes in the past were slow and adaptable, this is no longer the case.

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The Internet, social networks, and apps have created a whole new society that is a far cry from the world that once was. It is becoming increasingly difficult for older generations to understand the younger ones, and it's not hard to see why!

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The most obvious example is when youngsters today don’t know anything about the technology that millennials grew up with. You won't understand our struggles.

1. This is a diskette, also known as a floppy disk. It is used for storing information.

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3. This is used to manually open or close a car window.

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Gen Y (millennials) refers to people born from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. So, if you were born sometime between 1981 and 1996, you are a millennial.

Members of Gen Z are those born from 1997 until the early 2010s, who grew up with digital technology around them and are comfortable utilizing the Internet and social media.

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5. This is a cassette tape. It is used for storing music and was first developed in 1963.

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What are the other ways that these generations differ? Amber Feitsma from Compan Young states that Generation Z is much more practical than Gen Y due to higher economic instability. Gen Z focuses on security and stability, but paradoxically prefers experiences over material goods, which seems counterintuitive.

Even though the new generation grew up surrounded by digital technology, it still appreciates face-to-face contact and technology that makes communication easier, simpler, and more convenient.