I’m '67 and I did start my working life not “online” but I don’t even remember how that worked.
“You shouldn’t be looking!”
:rolleyes:
I agree with this but think a case can be made for events defining a generation. WW2, Kennedy Assassination, Vietnam, Moon Landing, 9/11, etc.
Unfortunately for kids today they don’t have such music as Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road.
“Stay away from jazz and liquor, and the men who play for fun.”
Just think, in 80 years, dubstep will be considered old-fashioned, nostalgic, whimsical music that grandpa listened to when he was in middle school.
Humans are humans, and forever shall remain arrogant about their own beliefs. I think this feeling comes from a common bond with a certain people. They draw on other people’s similarities, and become opinionated on it. Here’s a biased scenario: (just trying to haul my point across, I mean nothing negative by it) Assume during a specific time period, let’s say the renaissance, people grew up with a specific kind of music- and generally everyone favored it. Now let’s say that their grand children are listening to Justin Bieber. I doubt the grandparents in this scenario would favor this music, maybe even just for the fact they were holding their own musical muse to height.
They have their own excellent music. I’m 46 and I come across stuff produced right now that is superb.
'Course it’s mostly produced by people my age or older 
I think the general term for this phenomenon is what sociologist call the generation gap. This is the result of social, philosophical, ethical and technological changes or developments in society which make new generations act and behave differently then the previous ones. Another aspect is the need for the new generations to from social and personal identities distinct from the parents.
During the 20th (and 21st) century these changes have probably been much more rapid than in previous ones and therefore the generational differences for most of the people born during that time are probably greater than they generally have been in human history.
I don’t think this qualifies as an example of “kids these days” but rather just kids in general since in your example there is no difference between you as a kid and the kids today.
Yes - isn’t that exactly what this thread is about? Why there is this perception that kids are getting worse when in fact they are the same as ever?
My perception as an adult is that kids are annoying now, whereas when I was a kid I was blissfully innocent of the fact that I was being annoying, and it was only stuck-in-the mud old grumps who would complain. And yes, if I stop and analyse it, I can see that this is a fallacy, but most people don’t stop to analyse, they just complain. Hence “kids these days”…