Those Damn Kids!
The only thing different between this headline and one of 30, 40, 50, hell – 100 years ago is that the word “damn” would have been controversial. Otherwise, any given generation has been subjected to the stereotype of being the scourge of the Earth. But to be a millennial in today’s your bad-hair-day will be a viral meme before day’s end world is a new level of scrutiny that past generations have never had to navigate. We see it in real time with Hollywood and TV personalities who are under a microscope - Taylor, Justin, Brittney, Pete – just to name a handful. They are having to air their very personal difficulties – mental health, marital issues, and more – almost as it happens without any semblance of privacy. One might say that’s what you get for being famous. But rewind 25 years, and this kind of instant information just wasn’t available. There was no Facebook or Twitter. The Internet was in its infancy and so we had to rely on the supermarket tabloids or the occasional enter
