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An amusing first look at how today's users of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are greatly different from their millennial predecessors and from every other technology, from the renowned psychologist and author of Technology Me. With generational divides wider than ever before, parents, teachers, and employers provide an urgent need to understand today's rising technology of teens and young adults. Blessed in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and later, iGen is the first technology to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With communal marketing and texting upgrading other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person - perhaps why they are really experiencing unprecedented degrees of anxiety, unhappiness, and loneliness. But technology is not the thing that makes iGen distinct from every technology before them; they are also different in the way they spend their time, in the way they behave, and in their attitudes toward faith, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in new ways, reject once sacred communal taboos, and want various things of their lives and professions. More than prior generations, they are really obsessed with security, centered on tolerance, and also have no persistence for inequality. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: 18-year-olds look and act like 15-year-olds used to. As this new band of young people expands into adulthood, we all need to understand them: Relatives and buddies need to look out for them; businesses must work out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And users of iGen also need to understand themselves as they talk to their elders and make clear their views to their old peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our region - and the world.
