The Me Generation

In this article I want to focus on how Joel Stein talks about how technology has been a great empowerment towards the Millennials and how narcissistic has played a big factor on how we portray life. We are so fixated on the fact that everything we see in the media we try to base are life on it or want to have a life like it. We all seek something greater than what is really realistic. Joel Stein states, “They are fame-obsessed: three times as many middle school girls want to grow up to be a personal assistant to a famous person as want to be a Senator, according to a 2007 survey; four times as many would pick the assistant job over CEO of a major corporation.” I feel like media has something to do with why we think we should get jobs like these or that we should have the confidence in succeeding. That means our generation is far more different then when our parent’s were growing up because we want whats better and greater then to settle for whats just good enough. Another reason is that because of narcissism. We rely so much on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Television to help us identify ourselves through other people opinions and how we view people. We start to live off of those opinions and we look at these celebrities on TV and we want to become them. "In fact, a lot of what counts as typical millennial behavior is how rich kids have always behaved. The Internet has democratized opportunity for many young people, giving them access and information that once belonged mostly to the wealthy." Television is the main source on why we want to be greater than to settle for whats just good enough.. After reading this article everything about this is pretty accurate on how our generation has become something better and more self improving.