The La La Land of GEN Z
It was a moment of disdain to realize that a 17-year-old without an Instagram account is equivalent to an Indian without an ‘Aadhar card’. For those who missed the tongue-in-cheek quality of my comment, I was recalling a recent conversation with an acquaintance of mine who simply refused to believe that I could belong to Generation Z when I confessed to her that I did not possess an Instagram account or a Twitter handle. However, her doubt began to make sense as I read from Google the various credentials one should possess to make themselves a righteous member of this prestigious generation and soon the realization dawned upon me that I did not even remotely fit within its popular definition. I do not wish to present the myriad reasons why I refuse to accept social media as a characterizing feature of the present gener...