Gen Z college course to talk
What’s the No. 1 thing Gen Zs are whining about? Well, that’s a tough call. When persnickety teens and twenty-somethings aren’t busy bellyaching over the use of passive aggressive emojis, they’re apparently griping over the anxiety-inducing task of making and having conversations. When you can chat with people online and share stuff with groups you meet on the Internet, many of those things that freak us out about socializing fade into the background. It’s hard to be intimidated when the person you’re talking to is behind a computer screen. Keeping things relegated to the online realm, while less intimidating, isn’t healthy. Nottingham College is offering coaching lessons to Gen Zers grappling with “telephonophobia.” “Phone anxiety is something we come across regularly,” Liz Baxter, a careers advisor at Nottingham College, explained to the BBC, adding that youngsters “simply don’t have the confidence” to really talk face to face. Emotional symptoms of terror include delaying or avoiding making calls due to heightened distress, feeling extremely nervous prior to, during and after a call and obsessing over what will be said amid the discussion.
Nausea, an increase in heart rate, shortness of breath, dizziness and muscular tension are the most common physical manifestations of the revolution. However, recent research suggests that the apprehension to personal communication is associated with social anxiety, which stems from a fear of judgment or humiliation. Instead, folks under age 27 are more inclined towards texting or communicating on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and SnapChat rather than engaging in voice-to-voice conversations — especially when they’re work-related or concerning matters of the heart. The group’s aversion to giving someone a ring is so intense that young heartbreakers have even grown accustomed to the “brutal” act of breaking up with romantic partners via text message.
“Most people would prefer it,” Kean, 26, previously stated about the digital dumping trend. “It saves a really awkward face to face encounter.” Donna, 16, said she was “mostly anxious” when a genuine phone call came in, “because it’s normalized for our generation to be used to text messages — so if there’s a phone call I always think it’s an emergency. The only people I’ll call are my mum or my dad,” said the teen. “But anyone else, I don’t want them to call me because it feels quite formal, and that’s not something I’m used to. It’s unknown to our generation, we’ve grown up texting each other.”
Just text me
How do you ground a gen Z?
Make them go outside and socialize.
Generation Z is best known for being hard-working
…within the Minecraft community.
Why can’t Z generationers swim?
Their phones would get wet.
After Generation Z, the next generation should be called generation AA.
Because they will be the generation to grow up with batteries inside everything.
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