millennials = iGeneration

A while back I wrote an article on the work styles of different generations.  At the time “Millennials” was the common name for the generation born between 1982 and 2005.  Many people have read the article since then and have commented on how they hated the term Millennial - it was like it was coined by the boomers who didn’t understand their kids.

Well, recently I’ve noticed the trend to calling them the iGeneration which really stuck with me because, really, this decade is dominated by iPod’s, iPhones and other internet advancement.  Then I stumbled on MC Lars on YouTube - iGeneration - the lyrics say it all:

And people tried to put us down, when iTunes bumped a post-Cold War sound.
My generation sat the mecca of malls, Times Square, I’m there, Viacom installs.
So we hit the net while the Trade Center fell, New York met Hollywood, we ran like hell.
No Vietnam for us, yo, Iraq it’s on. So who agree upon this cowboy Genghis Khan?
The choice made, baby. Hey we’d take it back, logged in dropped out, MTV took track.
They sold it back to us and claimed no correlation. The iMac, iPod, iGeneration.
And I’m waiting for the day we can get out. The world is ours, that’s the story no doubt.
Want to be more info super highway traffic, want to be more than a walking demographic!

“Hey! You’re part of it.” Talking about the iGeneration.
“Yeah! You’re part of it.” Talking about my iGeneration.

See the iGeneration knew organization meant optimization and unification,
When imagination gave participation in creation of culture a manifestation.
The Berlin Wall fell and out we came, the post-Cold War kids laid claim to AIM.
LOL, OMG, yo, BRB. Space, colon, dash, closed parenthesis.
We sat at our laptops and typed away, and found that we each had something to say.
Web-logged our fears, our hopes and dreams. Individuated by digital means.
Fiber optic lenses, DVD, Coca Cola, Disney and Mickey D’s.
Flat mass culture, the norm that took hold I hope I die before I get sold.

This is the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T ge-ne-ra-tion, see?

I stand corrected: millennials ARE the iGeneration.