Rating: Not rated
Tags: Non-Fiction
Summary
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's
members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults
born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from
their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation,
from the renowned psychologist and author of
Generation Me.
With generational divides wider than ever, parents,
educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand
today's rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in
the mid-1990s and later, iGen is the first generation to spend
their entire adolescence in the age of smartphones. With social
media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less
time with their friends in person—perhaps why they are
experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and
loneliness.
But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen
distinct from every generation before them; they are also
different in how they spend their time, how they behave,
and...