The Pew Research Center is conducting a survey to determine the prevalence of behaviors that typify the “Millennial Generation” (people born after 1981) among all the age delineations in the U.S. You can take the survey here, and after you complete the quiz it will tell you how you compare. The questions focus on things like whether you get your news online vs. traditional media, whether you’ve given up having a landline telephone, and stuff like that, as well as a few things like whether or not you have a tattoo or body piercing and whether your parents were married when you were growing up.
I think of myself as being fairly “connected” with technology and modern media consumption, but as you can just about make out from that shrunken-down version of my score, I placed pretty much exactly with my “generation” (having been born in 1963, I am right on the cusp between Boomers and GenXers). My media habits are more like millennials, but my other social norms are decidedly rooted in the pre-Information Age. I have often been struck by just how “old fashioned” so many of my peers are, but now I think that just speaks to the transitional nature of being born at the dividing line between generations.
