GENERATION WHY?: You're on your way to becoming the perfect Gen Y-er!

Since this is the final installment of Generation Why - for a while, at least - I thought I'd summarize this column with a short guide to our generation. Even if you were born in 1951, you can be a Gen Y-er if you just follow these simple steps:

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GENERATION WHY?: You're on your way to becoming the perfect Gen Y-er!

POSTED: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 11:00 AM

Matt Cantor puts Gen Y-ers on blast.

Since this is the final installment of Generation Why — for a while, at least — I thought I’d summarize this column with a short guide to our generation. Even if you were born in 1951, you can be a Gen Y-er if you just follow these simple steps:

1. Move back in with your parents. If this doesn’t work, you can move into a nonthreatening “rough” neighborhood.

2. Get a Mac laptop. Bring it to Starbucks if desired.

3. Get a whole bunch of music and movies for free. As previously noted, we don’t pay for things. For the music, you can choose between woodsy acoustic songs or harsh electronic stuff. Movies can be either “indie” films or epics involving magic and dragons.

4. Make frequent use of the word “awkward.”

5. Unashamedly play video games, even though you’re supposed to be an adult.

6. Spend at least 4 hours a day on the Internet. Being on the Internet at work doesn’t count. I’m talking sitting on your bed reading blogs, updating your status and watching streaming TV.

7. Recite knowledge gained from Wikipedia as if it’s unquestionable fact, and act like you’ve known it your whole life.

8. Get on Gmail and Facebook. Once you have an account on each site, leave them open in a browser tab literally 24 hours a day.

9. Know an incredible amount about beer, but very little about the situation in Afghanistan.

10. Read Harry Potter. Obviously.

11. Never, never be out of date. Your phone is 2 years old? Ew, throw it away. Your iPod is fourth generation? What are you, a caveman?

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