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Every generation has its own idiosyncrasies. But since Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living adult age group in the US, let's focus on them.

Because generations are analytical constructs, it usually takes time for popular and expert consensus to develop their precise boundaries, but it has been widely accepted that Millennials are born between 1981 and 1996.

These ladies and gentlemen have witnessed a massive shift in technology, the economy, and business throughout their lifetime, so they are generally good at accepting change. They're curious, value teamwork, and visit the library more than any other age group.

But to paint you a more accurate picture of these folks, we at Bored Panda gathered a collection of tweets, where people single out all the things Millennials do and say that make them, well, Millennials.

From texting "lol" to breaking out into a song when you're upset, continue scrolling to check out the entries and upvote the ones you agree with the most!

Over the past 50 years – from the Silent Generation’s young adulthood to that of Millennials today – the US has undergone large cultural and societal shifts. But now that the youngest Millennials are adults, we can take a look at how they compare with those who were their age in the generations that came before.

Millennials, for example, are much better educated than their grandparents, as the share of young adults with a bachelor's degree or higher has steadily climbed since 1968. Around four-in-ten (39%) of those ages 25 to 37 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with just 15% of the Silent Generation, roughly a quarter of Baby Boomers and about three-in-ten Gen Xers (29%) when they were the same age.

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Boomer women surged into the workforce as young adults, setting the stage for more Gen X and Millennial females to follow suit.

In 1966, when Silent Generation women were ages 22 through 37, a majority (58%) were not participating in the labor force (about 40% were employed).

For Millennial women today, 72% have a job while just a quarter are not in the labor force. Boomer women were the turning point. As early as 1985, more young Boomer women were employed (66%) than were not in the labor force (28%).

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Casey McAlister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually prefer when people send a few short messages instead of a long one. I have the attention span of a goldfish, the chances that I'll skip and miss something in a long-a*s paragraph are quite high.

Performingyak
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We grew up with character limits on texts, some people never adapted when that changed.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't speak to why millenials do it, but I do it because that's how my thoughts work. Type, hit send, think of something else I wanted to say...

HappyKitteh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because when we started it was 5/10p a text and we love that they're now unlimited.

Kelly Flynn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do you care? You’re texting us too. And responding and reading what we are sending.

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Rachel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a "that person" thing, not a millennial thing in general.

Melissa Hollowell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do this and I am firmly Gen X. it is because this is how I think and speak. Also I want each sentence to be evaluated on its own, not in conjunction with a lot of other thoughts/comments.

Sara Coons
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s because we used to have to pay per text. We now exploit the c**p out of the fact that unlimited texting is part of all cell plans. We are making up for all the texts we couldn’t send back when they were $0.25 each.

Megan Stolkey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay but actually, our first phones had a numeric keyboard and a character limit. You had to be efficient!

Sir Panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not a millennial thing. That's just the nature of the format. It's not meant for essays of text.

I just work here
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would strangle someone who did this. Obnoxious. That being said, I do this on zoom chat a lot :)

Remington Greer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd prefer jumping down a few lines to delineate messages without bombarding en masse both when I have multiple, separate things need saying and in response to multiple topics

Matt Nethery
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It denotes a new sentence. And, personally I don't care for the taste of periods.

Daffodil
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I send a bunch of messages because it helps me get my point across in less words. When I write a paragraph it ends up being one run-on sentence, with lots of unnecessary extra detail. Writing a few, short messages helps me be more concise and makes the person on the other end have to do less reading.

Corrsfan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this so deeply. Receiving 20 message notifications, half of which are emojis and variations of "lol". Give me the single, long message any day

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my friends was like this. Literally 60-70 few word messages at a time... It got to the point that one day I just never opened the messages again, we haven't talked in over a year.

Kate Jones
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol I actually agree. I prefer to write something up, proofread it then send it. It's so annoying to get 14 messages buzzing my phone over and over. Not to mention that not everyone has a phone plan. I really don't use my cellphone often. I mainly have it for emergencies and occasional calls or to use google maps. I can't imagine paying 50-100 bucks a month for a stupid phone plan, I just have a Tracfone. I bought the phone *and* plan for an 120 bucks and it's for the whole year. It's a nice Samsung Galaxy phone, and I get a year worth of service and about 1500 texts and a bunch of data and calls. I never ever use them all. I sometimes use up my data but it's still pretty rare with wifi just about everywhere these days. So every time someone texts me, it's taking away from my text allotment. It's not a huge deal but if you're trying to keep it from going over, it becomes an issue having 30 texts that could have been one.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as someone thats gen z i do this so the title does make sense lol

Nenes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, they don't know how to use transitions so they opt for this.

similarly
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those aren't millennials. Those are people my age. They're still pressing the enter button thinking it's the carriage return on their old typewriter.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll pick up a phone when you pry one into my cold, dead hands.

Remi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought is was more of a personality trait ratger than age related issue

Natalia Shoemark
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We stared w Alcatel.. google it :) another old habit! Like chat rooms and icq

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a millennial and I'm pregnant with my first right now. Her name is Holly. I've had people ask me why I don't spell it more unique... Like what? Holleigh? Absolutely f*****g not lol

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Despite a reputation for job hopping, Millennial workers are just as likely to stick with their employers as Gen Xers were when they were the same age.

Roughly seven-in-ten of each group ages 22 to 37 in 2018 (70%) reported working for their current employer for at least 13 months. (About three-in-ten of both groups said they’d been with their employer for at least five years.)

However, it's worth mentioning that the economy varied for each generation. While the Great Recession affected Americans broadly, it created a particularly challenging environment for Millennials entering the job market. The unemployment rate was especially high for America’s youngest adults in the years just after the recession, a reality that would impact Millennials' future earnings and wealth.

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The financial well-being of Millennials is complicated. While the individual earnings for young workers have remained mostly flat over the past 50 years, there's a notably large gap between what Millennials who have a college education make and the ones without it.

Millennials with a bachelor's degree or more and a full-time job had median annual earnings valued at $56,000 in 2018, roughly equal to those of college-educated Generation X workers in 2001.

But Millennials with some college or less had annual earnings lower than their counterparts in prior generations.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because we didn’t have video game downloads, and you should just appreciate not having to dust out your game and sometimes your console

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While young adults, in general, do not have much accumulated wealth, Millennials possess slightly less than Boomers did at the same age.

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The median net worth of households headed by Millennials (ages 20 to 35 in 2016) was about $12,500 in 2016, compared with $20,700 for households headed by Boomers of the same age in 1983.

And the median net worth of Gen X households at the same age was about $15,100.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Corporate speak... it's all. Trying to keep your crappy, underpaid job while swimming with the sharks get you there.

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The difference in wealth can be partly attributed to differences in debt by generation. Compared with those who came earlier, more Millennials have outstanding student debt, and the amount of it they owe tends to be greater.

In fact, the share of young adult households with any student debt doubled from 1998 (when Gen Xers were between 20 to 35) to 2016 (when Millennials were that age).

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In addition, the median amount of debt was nearly 50% greater for Millennials with outstanding student debt ($19,000) than for Gen X debt holders when they were young ($12,800).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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Also, Millennials, who, again, were hit hard by the Great Recession, have been slower in forming their own households than previous generations.

They’re more likely to live in their parents’ homes and also more likely to be at home for long stretches.

In 2018, 15% of Millennials (ages 25 to 37) were living with their folks. This is nearly double the share of early Boomers and Silents (8% each) and 6 percentage points higher than Gen Xers who did so when they were the same age.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hoping if I gripe loudly enough, I can fool the U.S. into letting me retire before Social Security runs out.

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What’s more, millennials’ discretionary income is shrinking with inflation, Redfin finds. Even though their average income has increased 9.7% since 2020, rising costs for housing, food, and gas have increased their expenses by about 17%.

Rental costs have become particularly expensive, with median monthly rents up 13.5% year over year in July.

“This is a rough patch right now for millennials,” said Redfin senior economist Sheharyar Bokhari. “But their long-term prospect is that they will be making more money as they get older, get into ownership and become the main force driving the economy.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*me wearing one while I type this* I don't know what you're talking about!!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk, but one of my classmates does that and it used to make me feel guilty for not doing something. Pretty much one of our conversations:her:"would you like to come to my b-day on saturday?" me:"Sorry, I'm busy that day." her:"Oh, ok....". Can someone explain why she does that?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because we enjoy doing things? Why do gen z waste their life posting on tiktok instead of going out adventuring and then complaining life is boring and being depressed about it.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you are implying that is is giving the Millennial fabricated importance, it is giving the person they are referring to fabricated importance. I have worked in libraries for a long time. We were taught to refer to our users as patrons. I will say the term customer is not quite right, and I will acknowledge that, but also apparently people did not like being called customers. It is because users or people they are working for or with have an inflated sense of importance.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a lie. As a gen Xer I can tell you that there hasn't been a generation that didn't like a good cheese board.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hyping up small businesses is elite behavior so get with the program Rob.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Millennial here, I also don't see why people gets their panty twisted with a word. I have met many who say they hate word "Moist". No one can tell me why.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gen z here, but it's my favourite season. So much death and such pretty colours! Also, I can finally wear my favourite outfits!

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And i was like WTF!!
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahahaha Compare eating washing detergent with social network that helped us learn a bit of code

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can you be so sure dog isn't typing? According to some of the bumper stickers there are dogs smarter than your honor student so it might be just a smarter dog typing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You TikTok teens think you're so great! Just wait until you're our age.

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And i was like WTF!!
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We do not have anything else ffs. We were hyped to study, behave and we will get the job. Oooh the iron E (yes its irony) in that. Boomers dont effing go to their pension, workplaces are filled with old people that dont understand tech and progress, we are overworked and underpayed, cant afford to even have kids and we find comfort that at least our pets can have a good life if we cant.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, sure, complain about 60 years old guy who spent 40 years developing his business. He doesn't need to know how to attach things to emails, he has you to do it for him.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a podcasting person. But the impression I get from those that are, it's bc podcasts have a pre-agreed topic to center around, it's recorded so usually people are less creepy, & you can edit out saying something stupid before it streams. A call can't be edited for clearer context/content, you just end up rambling/backtracking/arguing over it, and there's no clear end in sight.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After cycling through depressing news all day, I just want to watch SpongeBob. You go watch West Wing if you please

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Justification for taking up space/time, even online. Trauma, it's trauma.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't tell people to shut up because you dislike what they say. It doesn't work like that

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But I genuinely don't know what it is. I mean, I know it's an app, but I don't know the point of it

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk y do they? I don't want to hear an impression of an ugly orange because I've heard enough of annoying orange to last me a lifetime on ugly oranges

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No idea what this is about and I don't feel attacked at all, that's the gen z's job to get offended over everything and then immediately block you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was today old when I learned there are songs by millennials hating on gen z. Can someone link any song about hating gen z please. Like, Literally, ..., lol and such.

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