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We overshared, over-posted, and overperformed, now we can’t look away from the past.
I Cringe Every Time I See These Millennial Habits I Thought Were Revolutionary — And You Did Too
Millennials did a lot of embarrassing things. We lived online, and it shows.
Whenever a Facebook memory from 2009 pops up, a certain panic seems to accompany it. You feel a rush of heart rate, an upset belly, and thoughts racing saying, “Delete it! Burn it! Hide it!”
And the worst part is that you wrote it. You stood behind every word of that dramatic, cryptic, overly emotional post stating “I hate what has to happen is going to happen, but it has to happen.” What was happening? I couldn’t tell you.
All I know is that I’m a millennial and assuming people cared, I meant to tell the world that I was tired and eating pizza.
Well, growing up online was both our superpower and our downfall, we dragged the foundation of the internet like cowboys with dial-ups, overshared like it was our personality, and documented all of our boring moments like they were breaking news.
And fast forward to now, I’m 30, I’m Indian, and I lived in the USA for my master’s degree and have since…
