The 50’s, the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s - seemed like youth had something to say. Or something to do, or show off, or just bug their parents.
I’m not seeing it that much these days. As we grow older, are we going to be cared for by humorless dweebs?
What are kids doing these days?
Being hipsters?
I wasn’t alive in the '50s, '60s, '70s or '80s but I get the feeling that there’s less of a divide between “the youth” and the, uh, “unyouth” than there was back then. So sure, kids have something to say, but you’re not going to see them as “kids with something to say” but rather as “people with something to say”.
They rebel by dressing like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0
The video’s a joke, but the outfits aren’t. I think they’re trying to be ironic.
Which of these words doesn’t belong with the others? 
Exactly why I phrased it that way. 
Camwhoring?
Not hardly, Junior. Adults do not take people under 30 seriously about much of anything. We don’t like that hippity-hop shakey booty music they play (way too damn loud) in their cars, we think they look like damn fools running around with their pants around their knees and their baseball caps on backwards. When they opine about national or international affairs, based on the entirety of their two whole decades of experience, we :rolleyes:
I’m nearly 40 and when I was in college, guys wore their pants around their knees and their baseball caps backwards…
Did you go to clown college?
Someone let grandpa out of the basement again. 
Well, chain him to the radiator and make sure he’s got enough Ambien laced stewed prunes, dammit!
Obviously a comedy site, but http://www.yourscenesucks.com/ is a decent introduction to recent youth fads.
They’re texting it in
Think again. People my age (late 30) and older tend to view your generation of having the distinction of being the first generation to be less cool than their parents. Out of shape physically. Poor socialization. Whiny. In constant need of validation. Developmentally arrested. We don’t see your generation as “changing the world” so much as bitching about it on the blogosphere constantly.
Just your statement that you need to be treated as “people with something to say” is a very different way of thinking from previous generations. My generation (typically referred to as “X”) didn’t really give much thought over what the older generations thought about us. And earlier generations (“Boomers” mostly) seemed to have more of a “fuck you! You need to hear what we are saying!” mentality.
But, but, we made ‘Angry Birds.’ Surely this must count for something?
A criticism which is surely unique to this generation, no doubt.
This is what happens when your parents feel they were mistreated by their parents.
They breed a generation of whiny, over-coddled losers who are afraid to grow up and be men.
When I was growing up, each new generation tried to be “cooler” and “edgier” than their parents. They partied harder. Listened to louder music. Tried heavier drugs. Dated creepier guys or slutier girls. Whatever. Basically tried to figure out new ways to piss off their parents as a statement rebellion and independence.
I don’t see that with kids these days.
Maybe because they’ve figured out that living like that can get you dead? Perhaps they’re testing other, less tangible, boundaries.