Study: No, millennials aren’t obsessed with social media

Study: No, millennials aren't obsessed with social media http://t.co/lDj06si8xC via @anthonyhennen pic.twitter.com/9r5SvMfDnb

— Red Alert Politics (@RedAlert) October 1, 2015

54 percent of Millennials between the ages of 20 and 35 report that they don’t use Snapchat, 41 percent aren’t on Pinterest, and 39 percent lack accounts on Twitter or Instagram.

Only 11 percent don’t have a Facebook account, but 27 percent of respondents said they use Facebook less than once a week.

As millennials get older, they’re less engaged with social media. Family and career obligations crowd out the spare time that younger millennials use to browse various platforms.

However, the survey notes that “having an account on Facebook and using it more than once a week is also more common among users with children in their households,” which reflects the aging userbase of Facebook.

Make Way for Generation Z

◼ I’ve now had the opportunity to meet lots of Gen Zers, and here’s what I’ve noticed. To start, they tend to be independent. - NYT

...While a 2015 Census Bureau report found that nearly a third of millennials are still living with their parents, Gen Zers are growing up in a healthier economy and appear eager to be cut loose. They don’t wait for their parents to teach them things or tell them how to make decisions. As demonstrated by the teenagers attending the recent Generation Z Conference at American University in Washington, Gen Z is already out in the world, curious and driven, investigating how to obtain relevant professional experience before college. Despite their obvious technology proficiency, Gen Zers seem to prefer in-person to online interaction and are being schooled in emotional intelligence from a young age. Thanks to social media, they are accustomed to engaging with friends all over the world, so they are well prepared for a global business environment.

Gen Z is also diverse....

Behold the baby boom, ye mighty, and despair.

◼ The Boomer Bust: Here we are in the baby boom cosmos. What have we wrought? - P.J. O'ROURKE/Wall St. Journal

...The youngest baby boomers, born in the last year when anybody thought it was hip to like Lyndon Johnson, are turning 50. We'd be sad about getting old if we weren't too busy remarrying younger wives, reviving careers that hit glass ceilings when children arrived and renewing prescriptions for drugs that keep us from being sad. And we'll never retire. We can't. The mortgage is underwater. We're in debt up to the Rogaine for the kids' college education. And it serves us right—we're the generation who insisted that a passion for living should replace working for one.

Still, it's an appropriate moment for us to weigh what we've wrought and tally what we've added to and subtracted from existence. We've reached the age of accountability. The world is our fault. We are the generation that has an excuse for everything—one of our greatest contributions to modern life—but the world is still our fault.

This is every generation's fate. It's a matter of power and privilege and demography. Whenever anything happens anywhere, somebody over 50 signs the bill for it. And the baby boom, seated as we are at the head of life's table, is hearing Generation X, Generation Y and the Millennials all saying, "Check, please!"...
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◼ This essay is adapted from the latest of Mr. O'Rourke's 16 books: The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way…And It Wasn't My Fault…And I'll Never Do It Again," to be published in December by Grove Atlantic.

For Baby Boomers, it's now 'work til you drop'...

◼ The oldest ones, (Ed) Lawler says, aren't retiring, and more and more the youngest members of the generation ahead of them aren't either. It's no longer uncommon, he says, for people to work until 70. - AP via Drudge