The millennial generation is the first one for which "kids these days" sentiment isn't relegated to elders sitting on their porch watching local hooligans scuff up the street their tax dollars worked so hard to make nice. As a millennial, it can be exhausting hearing about how I'm apparently killing a new industry every week, how mine is apparently the first generation with no respect for my elders (as if the seventies--when they were teens--was a time of such profound respect for authority.) Unfortunately, as boomers discover the internet, it feels like an epidemic has arisen of trash-tier journalism that panders to their pearl-clutching over the death of some imagined bygone era of formality and discipline.
If only we could take a break from our avocado toast and our industry killing to write sensibly! Some of the most amusing things I've seen are local news pieces that will display a list of acronyms "kids these days" are allegedly using to engage in debauchery and disrespect their elders in secret. I'm not going to bring up examples but from the ones I've seen I can attest that most of them are either inaccurate or completely fabricated. These televised pieces are the progenitors of modern fear-mongering internet articles mourning the death of culinary staples like Applebees, murdered before its time by a generation with less money and the capability to aggregate opinions about awful restaurants quickly. Disregard the fact that Applebees is in fact still around. No offense is intended to Applebees fans.
The final point, as was John's, is that things like texting and scary new acronyms aren't the death of language, they're an evolution.
I agree with your point on this generation.
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