Enough

Can people please, PLEASE stop making lists of websites you can visit to understand the mysterious species known as young people? I realize all of this stuff is good-intentioned, but I am genuinely convinced that the effort to create types that will explain the generations is, in and of itself, unhelpful. One of the things I like best about working for Government Executive is that there is really strong intergenerational communication and cooperation here. And we have that, because people from different generations talk to each other in the office, not because any of the editors have gone out and signed up for Twitter accounts in an effort to understand the younger writers better, not because any of us writers went out and read a bunch of books on generational types and decided to curb our tendencies towards independence and innovation in deference to our elders. Don't go surf a bunch of social networking sites if you want to understand your younger employees. Go talk to them. Seriously.