As a millennial who's been on the internet a long time, the only thing I'm confident in is that making any self-congratulatory statements about one's own generation is the most fuckin cringe thing you can do
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As a late "gen Xer" I can attest that generational divides are horseshit. Back in the 90s kids of my age (46 in 20 minutes) were "Gen Y". It wasn't that long ago I realized I'd be GenX by current reckoning. Never understood what a millennial was even though I basically am one.
Stop letting yourself be defined and divided by arbitrary generations that will shift and be reassessed as you get older. We should be identifying with each other based on values, not the year we were born.
Someone who hasn't been in school for 15+ years: So anyway back in my day research papers required SOURCES and those SOURCES couldn't be Wikipedia! You wouldn't get it, people still in school. It's different now.
As a millennial there are two things I know I do better than other generations: being mid at Oregon Trail and being able to play Pokemon Blue/Red in my sleep. Anything else and we're just being delusional.
i feel like if you're quoting a website (and not like a scientific article or something) wikipedia is probably one of the better ones to quote. i do not understand people's anti-wikipedia sentiment
There was a distinct period in the US when schoolteachers were extremely skeptical of the internet as a source and were largely teaching how to do research from a position of primarily books and hardcopy periodicals. It doesn't happen like that now, but for a period it was
The great miracle of the 21st century is that Wikipedia isn't an unusable dumpster fire. As annoying as the sentiment was, I can totally understand the skepticism when it was new.
The real reason to not cite Wikipedia is that encyclopedias are not primary sources. In a situation where secondary and tertiary sources are acceptable, Wikipedia should be considered perfectly valid. In a situation where using a primary source is necessary, Wikipedia's sources can be very helpful!
It used to be a lot less reliable, but that was ages ago. It's fine for any major topic, and can usually lead you to excellent info from scientific papers and the like.
Wikipedia has the up/ downside that it can be edited. Now for a kid it is not that important, but for various forms of documentation it is nice that source contents remain "fixed".
For that reason we were thaught, if we used an url as source reference to add the date from when we checked it.
I saw multiple posts and even from someone I follow pushing the Millennials Vs Gen Z thing and honestly it feels shitty. Like yeah, Gen Z aren't immune to propaganda. No-one is. I'm upset too. But why push a generational divide?? Why infight when we both have to deal with what is now reality.
It feels less like pointing at an issue with what content some of gen z is consuming online and how that effects the culture and more like blaming and pointing fingers. It might not be that serious but like I'm gen z I feel shitty about everything right now too.
I wouldn't feel too bad, it is just millienials turn to right dreadful articles about how it is the younger peoples fault everything is broken.
It happened to them and instead of thinking "I see through the online bullshit" they decided to do it themselves.
I don't wanna make any overly broad generalizations but imo anyone who does this kind of generation discourse about how so-and-so are better than so-and-so are among the stupedist people alive
I don't trust generalizing statements relating to a collective of individuals when its something arbitrary like generational divides, it can get weird real quick regardless of context or lead to an "us vs them" mentality about stuff.
The person you're interacting with is what matters
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oh... this is still kind of doing it isn't it...
La vieillesse est un naufrage, as we say.
For that reason we were thaught, if we used an url as source reference to add the date from when we checked it.
It happened to them and instead of thinking "I see through the online bullshit" they decided to do it themselves.
The person you're interacting with is what matters