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This websites has alot to do about Gen Y and what its all about just incase people want more information on the topics today.

For anyone who has read this article, you might modify the bookmark to include a more descriptive tag or two.

I recently just read this article and I liked how the writer had supporting details to back up her argument.

The writer is generalizing. If she wants to argue that Generation Y is not lazy she must do more than present a few exceptionally successful individuals as examples (how many Gen-Y'ers are multi-billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg?). She provides no data on the general demographics of Gen-Y'ers to support her case.

A more positive spin on Gen Y

This opinion post looks like a lengthy 'tu quoque' to me. Rather than present data showing how Generation Y is not lazy and entitled, he shifts the blame to previous generations for bringing us up this way. Then he points to their problems (hippie-culture and drug use) in order to label their criticism of Gen Y "hypocritical". Finally he blames capitalism for teaching us to feel entitled and self-centered. Overall, he's not so much making a counter-argument to the claim that Gen Y'ers are lazy, as he is agreeing with it whilst pointing his finger at the older generations and saying they were just as bad.

Jonathan- sorry for replying a lot later. I actually used this article for Project 1 and noted that he used the tu quoque. I agree that he's while he's trying to make some legitimate argument, he never made any sort of statement that made me want to agree with him. Rather, he just keeps complaining about the older generations perception of Gen Y with nothing to back him up.

An article by Mark Bauerlein (also the author of our book). Have to agree with him on this point. It seems like eye contact and handshakes are being replaced by text messaging and emoticons. I'm all for technology, but face-to-face conversations are certainly lacking these days.