Title: Step Four: Learn More About the Millennial Generation
Course: Mass Media

Learn more about the Millennial Generation.

Here's how The Pew Center quickly summarizes the Millennial Generation, of which you are a part:

"Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials -- the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium -- have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.

They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They're less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history."

Later in the executive summary, the researchers claim that technology use is what really sets Millennials apart from other generations:

"Millennials' technological exceptionalism is chronicled throughout the survey. It's not just their gadgets -- it's the way they've fused their social lives into them. For example, three-quarters of Millennials have created a profile on a social networking site, compared with half of Xers, 30% of Boomers and 6% of Silents. There are big generation gaps, as well, in using wireless technology, playing video games and posting self-created videos online. Millennials are also more likely than older adults to say technology makes life easier and brings family and friends closer together (though the generation gaps on these questions are relatively narrow)."

To read the Executive Summary of the Report these excerpts come from, click here.

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