The Times (UK), “Facebook Study Shows Young Are the Me, Myself and I Generation”

October 10, 2014

Anna Pujol-Mazzini and Oliver Moody, “Facebook Study Shows Young Are the Me, Myself and I Generation” (The Times, Oct. 10, 2014)

Ben Zimmer, the lexicographer and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus, a language app, said: “One factor in the changes in pronoun use is simply that our immediate frames of reference change as we get older, relating more to marriage and family, which are by their nature more other-oriented than self-oriented.

“The life of the single millennial is, through the lens of Facebook, much more about individual activity than the life of someone married with kids, when the ‘I’ becomes subsumed by the ‘we’ of the family.”

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