I can’t communicate with younger people!
I tried to post this in the Gen Z community but since o don’t use Reddit enough they removed my comment, but I think here I can have some conversation.
I’m a 24m and I am in the last year of college and I can’t communicate with the new students, they were born between 2007 and 09. I try to have conversations with them but it’s really hard. They have really short attention, they are constantly on their phones either on social media or playing dumb games. They cannot have serious conversations, they are always surprised by anything remotely serious or different from what they are used to.
I am in Europe so we can star drinking at 18, first most of them don’t drink. (That’s good) but the ones that drink, shit… they drink a beer and they get stupid drunk… so you can’t go out to watch a game and drink a beer, no! They get hammered too fast.
They truly are the iPad kids that grew up. And makes me crazy that they are 100% of the time in their phones, not to say that their memes and slangs and conversation are shallow and most of that time don’t make sense.
It’s just so hard to create any kind of relationship with them, we don’t have a lot of years between us but it feels like a ton.
So, it’s just me? Or other people feel that?