Millennials: kids born in the age of the Internet.
We are continually branded with so many adjectives; things that define our generation. We are narcissistic because 55% of us have posted selfies on a social media site. We are overconfident because 40% of us believe we should be promoted at least every two years. We’re entitled because 21.6 million of us still live with our parents; we marry and move out later in life. We’re lazy because only 60% of us have jobs with great responsibility. But even when we’re wary, people call us optimistic. They praise us for being digitally adaptive, people who live and breathe in a world of technological advancement. We are idealistic, creative, informed but inactive. We’re living in a hurricane of adjectives both good and bad, all of which thrown in a rabid attempt to understand us, get to know us.
What other generations don’t understand is that we’re not too hard to understand. We don’t need to be probed or studied like a virus because essentially, we came from them. We are living and breathing reflections of who they were and who they are. The same people who check us out are the very people who brought us up, created us, made us who are as a generation. Do we really have to look through a microscope to understand how our own cheeks work?
What we’re trying to say is that we’re human. We have opinions, feelings, interests; all wrapped up and formed together, presented in photos, status updates, videos, and stories. It just so happened that we live in an age where we have the means to say what we want to say and do what we want to do in a democratized way.
As such, Millennial Interests was born.
MI is a blog formed by creatives, digital natives, social media savvies, people whose primary interest is to share their interests to the world to make a fully rounded picture of who we are as a generation.
We hope you enjoy our stories. For more interesting interests, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. We’d love to hear your stories and interests too! Email us at millennialinterests@gmail.com.