yall: annijade: kateoplis: “Here are some broad descriptions about the generation known as Millennials: They’re narcissistic. They’re lazy. They’re coddled. They’re even a bit delusional. Those aren’t just unfounded negative stereotypes about 80 million Americans born roughly between 1980 and 2000. They’re backed up by a decade of sociological research. The National Institutes of Health found that for people in their 20s, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is three times as high than the generation that’s 65 or older. In 1992, 80 percent of people under 23 wanted to one day have a job with greater responsibility; ten years later, 60 percent did. Millennials received so many participation trophies growing up that 40 percent of them think they should be promoted every two years – regardless of performance. They’re so hopeful about the future you might think they hadn’t heard of something called the Great Recession.” The Me Generation Diagnosis of all mental disorders has gone up. Maybe being constantly told that they can’t cope with any responsibility would make people not want it? or they’ve already got a shit tonne of responsibility. maybe EVERYONE thinks they should have a promotion every 2 years? if someone asked me I’d saying I should have a promotion every day. who the fuck would say they don’t want a promotion? (which BTW is the same as wanting more responsibility!) statistics out of context mean absolutely nothing. Also if you just read the rest of the article “But that’s merely one way of looking at the largest and most important generation since the Baby Boomers. In this week’s cover story, TIME’s Joel Stein — who has a few Millennial traits himself — examines the overwhelming negative data about Millennials and argues that rather than being inherently self-centered or overconfident, millennials are just adapting quickly to a world undergoing rapid technological change. They’re optimistic, they’re confident and they’re pragmatic at a time when it can be difficult just to get by. Those aren’t bad qualities to have, even if it means they spend too much time on their phones.”

yall:

annijade:

kateoplis:

“Here are some broad descriptions about the generation known as Millennials: They’re narcissistic. They’re lazy. They’re coddled. They’re even a bit delusional.

Those aren’t just unfounded negative stereotypes about 80 million Americans born roughly between 1980 and 2000. They’re backed up by a decade of sociological research. The National Institutes of Health found that for people in their 20s, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is three times as high than the generation that’s 65 or older. In 1992, 80 percent of people under 23 wanted to one day have a job with greater responsibility; ten years later, 60 percent did. Millennials received so many participation trophies growing up that 40 percent of them think they should be promoted every two years – regardless of performance. They’re so hopeful about the future you might think they hadn’t heard of something called the Great Recession.”

The Me Generation

Diagnosis of all mental disorders has gone up.

Maybe being constantly told that they can’t cope with any responsibility would make people not want it? or they’ve already got a shit tonne of responsibility.

maybe EVERYONE thinks they should have a promotion every 2 years? if someone asked me I’d saying I should have a promotion every day. who the fuck would say they don’t want a promotion? (which BTW is the same as wanting more responsibility!)

statistics out of context mean absolutely nothing.

Also if you just read the rest of the article “But that’s merely one way of looking at the largest and most important generation since the Baby Boomers. In this week’s cover story, TIME’s Joel Stein — who has a few Millennial traits himself — examines the overwhelming negative data about Millennials and argues that rather than being inherently self-centered or overconfident, millennials are just adapting quickly to a world undergoing rapid technological change. They’re optimistic, they’re confident and they’re pragmatic at a time when it can be difficult just to get by. Those aren’t bad qualities to have, even if it means they spend too much time on their phones.”

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The question of censorship and filtering on the internet is an important topic in todays society. If you watched the TED Talk above from Eli Pariser, you will know that it talks about how web companies are tailoring their search results to fit our personal preferences. He was claiming that we are all trapped in a ‘filtered bubble’ on the internet, without reaching information that could challenge or broaden our world view. 

Personally I’m sceptic towards his talk, mainly because in 1915 people didn’t have access to as much information as we do today. We’re presented with a vast ocean of information and so if Google didn’t rank and filter the results would we really find the website we wanted most of the time? Probably not.

As a response to the example he used in his talk, regarding the search query Egypt on Google. It’s very important to note that all of those two people’s previous search queries play a role in this example, because what they searched for in the past determines what kind of information that should be presented. One of the individuals most likely had searched for travel sites and trips whilst the other individual might be more engaged in news etc… Now if they had altered their search results slightly to “Egypt News” or “Egypt Protest,” maybe their search results would have been almost the same? 

There are still major web companies, like Twitter and Tumblr, that don’t filter your news feed. Since the users themselves choose the information they want to be exposed to. Therefore to claim that we are all trapped in a “dangerous unintended” filter bubble is simply wrong. From my experience we always have the ability to find the information we’re looking for, we might just have to try a little harder to get it. To say that we are brainwashed as a result of this is foolish and quite frankly ignorant. We shouldn’t always expect information to come to us, but to seek out information ourselves and thereby engaging in information that could potentially challenge or broaden or our world view. 

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For most people, the strength of a Wi-Fi signal is nothing more than a number — an isolated, and entirely utilitarian metric. But for Austrian artist and architect Peter Jellitsch, this data point is part of a larger set of invisible forces silently enveloping us. It’s this invisible, “fragmented space” that Jellitsch strove to capture in his latest work, “Bleecker Street Documents.” 

For most people, the strength of a Wi-Fi signal is nothing more than a number — an isolated, and entirely utilitarian metric. But for Austrian artist and architect Peter Jellitsch, this data point is part of a larger set of invisible forces silently enveloping us. It’s this invisible, “fragmented space” that Jellitsch strove to capture in his latest work, “Bleecker Street Documents.” 

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