Characteristics of Millennials

• Trusting – believe in second chances
• Confident – most have lived in a very “safe environment”
• Favored – “angelic” when compared with Xers
• Collaborative – raised working in teams
• Involved – especially in causes
• Optimistic – wholesome, upbeat
• Religious – more open to spirituality, God
  

12 Sentences That Define Millennials

1. Community matters the most to them.
2. They are confident and energetic
3. They are passionately tolerant
4. Change is constant – focus is fragmented
5. They have a very weak morality.
6. They value choice and variety – not size and volume.
7. They are over-protected.
8. They only trust themselves.
9. There is an increasing divide between rich and poor.
10. Non-traditional family definitions and sexual counter-revolution.
11. Nothing shocks them: “Been there, done that!”
12. They are plugged in.
    
    ~Graeme Codrington, August, 1999

For the full presentation, go to http://www.student.org/ssda/millennials/millennials.htm.