This is a summary of what some "experts," both in youth work and sociology, have observed about this next generation:
--This generation's pulse runs fast. Bombarded by frequent images, they are in need of continual "hits."
--The remote control symbolizes their reality: change is constant; focus is fragmented.
--They've eaten from the tree of knowledge.
--They live for now.
--They are jaded, having a "Been there/Done that" attitude, nothing shocks them.
--They take consumerism for granted.
--They are a cyber-suckled community.
--They process information in narrative images (like Nike commercials).
--Their "B.S.--detectors" are always on.
--They've had everything handed to them.
--They don't trust adults.

Culled from a questionnaire I sent out, and from other sources, this is what Millennials say about themselves:
--My generation seems oblivious.
--Everybody is too feeble because everything's handed to us.
--We don't do anything; we don't have any great achievements.
--We feel like everything is changing and we have nothing to do with it, so we sit back and let it happen.
--No one's thinking for [him/herself] anymore.
--No one has any sense of honor anymore.
--We have nothing stable to grasp; no one to look up to; no one to believe in.
--We're just coasting.
--We're not standing for anything.
--We desperately need to be standing for something.

Wendy Murray Zoba "The Class of 00"
Christianity Today Magazine.
February 3, 1997 Vol. 41, No. 2, P 18