There’s a thread on social media where Millennials and Gen X are talking about the things from THEIR childhood that Gen Z never got to experience. Here are a few highlights:
1. “Not having all your screw-ups forever uploaded to the internet.”
2. “Parents that let their kids run free.”
3. “Musical involvement. Spotify has made everything so available that it’s destroyed a sense of connection. When you were only buying a few CDs every year, you got to know those albums inside and out.”
4. Similarly . . . “Checking the ‘TV Guide’ and getting excited about a show or movie that’d be on later in the week. Having everything on-demand ruins that.”
5. “The excitement of getting back developed film.”
6. “AOL Instant Messenger.”
7. “Parents not having HD security cameras.”
8. “Browsing the video rental store.”
9. “Real, actual boredom. You were forced to be creative . . . learning instruments, drawing and painting, and writing terrible teenage poetry.”
10. “Not being connected to everyone on social media . . . for better AND worse. And being able to disconnect in general.”
