Millennials

Millennials are persons belonging to the generation that would be obtaining young adulthood in the 2000s (2000-2009). The term was coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in 1987 when newspapers began to recognize that people born in 1982 who where  entering preschool would be the graduating class of the year 2000. This definition places the year 1992 as the latest someone graduating school, and thus entering young adulthood during the 2000s decade could be born. The name Millennial refers to the 3nd Millennium, denoting them as the generation who would be entering work and politics in that millennium. As the thrid Millennium approached many people where anticipating a brighter future with several governents taking steps to enter the new millennium in a way that would set them down a positive path. To those people this generation held the hope of seeing that path followed. However surveys and studies found the generation to be more selfish, depressed, and prone to slacking off then the preceeding one. Eventually being labled the 'Me' generation in some circles due to an abundant sense of entitlement.