Achoo! Bless Pew! Gee, Thanks a Millennial!

So being the semi-avid academic that I am, I don’t b.s. about bookmarking websites that provide a generous wealth of pop culture pulp for my pontificating pleasure. That being said, I can’t quite convey how much Pew Research Center tickles my pickle.

It’s a site where the statistics are relevant and the digest is edible. Nirvana in a word. Well today’s bit of Buddha concerns the newest generation on the scene to hit the SNS, The Millennials. They (we, let’s be honest here) are the most racially diverse generation to come around these parts and also the most wired. A bit more single, more tolerant, less religious (save me Jebus?), and generally more liberal. Also a generation that inexplicably puts more faith into institutions (wait isn’t religion an institution?) than Gen Xers and Baby Boomers. We came of age right around the year 2000 and now our bildungsroman can be viewed on any Facebook NewsFeed or Twitter RSS. Score.

We sleep with our cell phone, or at least 83% of us do. And we just might be the smartest generation to ever hit ‘Merica, which is kind of funny because I’m not sure if we’ll use it for much. One day, we’ll look back and tell our kids about the Reza-pression of ought 8 (Recession + Depression smushed together) and say,

“When I was your age, I was living through the Greatest Reza-Pression that our country has ever known. It was awful. Everyone lost their job and surfed YouTube all day.”

Well how do YOU know if you’ve caught Millennial? Luckily Pew’s here to save us again, Bless Pew! They’ve gone and created a “How Millennial Are You?” Quiz, and boy oh boy is it a doozy! Go ahead and click on over to the 14-item quiz. Do you tattoo? Bless Pew! And things of that nature, 14 items designed to tell you just how Millennial your tumor is. I’ve got a rough case, a 91. I even took it twice to be precise. So if you’re worried about a Millennial epidemic, saunter on over to Pew, input your values and await the prognosis. Things could get serious. People might join SNS in the masses and elect a Democratic president… wait.