Technology has obviously made our lives a lot easier. From mapping out directions to googling anything and everything we can think of, we pretty much have it made. Does any of that make us lazy??

I ask because I recently came across an article on Time Magazine talking about how “lazy” our generation is. How we wait to move out of our parent’s house till we’re thirty and rather get an education as opposed to starting a family or joining the army. This article was published in 2013, but 3 years later of course it’s still very relevant. Yes this was also written by a man in his 40s.

He has some good points on how we can be narcissistic and feel entitled to certain things and how technology has kept us connected with others all day long but we also lack the ability to interact with those people face to face.

Is technology to blame for us being “lazy” or entitled? No. It’s not our fault we were born in an age when it started booming. If this had happened in any other era, our textbooks would be filled with selfies and whatnot. And maybe even with more of an insight into what politicians and other important figures had thought about certain situations. If only Facebook had been invented back then right?

I am a part of this generation and I don’t consider myself to be lazy. I work full time and attend school full time as well. It is not easy. On my free time I’m either helping out at the tv station at school trying to gain extra credit, filming at baseball games for extra cash or in bed trying to nap. And I have many peers who can say the same for themselves and many who cannot. We are all different and come from many different backgrounds but I do not consider any of us lazy. If anything, most of us have to work harder for what we want.

Here’s a link to the article. I encourage you guys to read this.

   

http://www.prjohnsonenglish.org/uploads/5/3/8/5/5385246/millennials_themememegeneration.pdf