We recently had some friends staying over during the school half-term. With them came their teenage sons. 2 prime Gen Zs, or whichever nomenclature they go by today; Post-Millennial, iGeneration, Gen Tech, Gen Wii, Net Gen, Digital Natives, or Plurals.
As we live very close to the town centre, we asked the eldest, Timmy, if he fancied going into town. On his own. Perhaps not to be encumbered by being near un-cool parents. And this would have the benefit of getting rid of him for a while.
When we suggested this to Timmy he looked at us with wild disbelief, “what! I won’t be able to do that!”
I was curious to understand why it might be a problem;
“it is quite simple to get to the town centre. It’s basically straight from our front door.”
“you just have to walk in a straight line for 20 mins”
Timmy replied “but I won’t have 4G !”
I’m still trying to understand the implications of this.
But at least our previous Millennial guest Charlotte managed to get into town without wifi / 3G / 4G.
maybe we shouldn’t be so worried about Millennials…?