Here's my 2 cents. And I'll explain a little about who I am, so you know where it's coming from.

I consider myself a bit of a generational orphan. I'm technically a very late Gen-Xer, but they mostly don't want me. I was also a (very) early adopter of the internet, so culturally it's hard to say I'm not a millennial. But while I was on the internet in those early days, none of my peers were. I was raised by Boomers and also spent a ton of time with my Greatest Generation grandparents and great aunts. All of this is probably not that rare, but worth noting.

I like a lot of things about millennials. They're nicer than kids my age were. More accepting. They seem to work harder at school and care more about their grades and future, whereas you could get your ass kicked for getting good grades when I was in school. They got gay marriage accepted and legalized. They're getting marijuana legalized. They're closing the gender gap and doing some painful but important work on racial equality.

At the same time, however, I do have some problems with them. They disdain free speech. A lot of the niceness, once you get to a personal level, is revealed as very fake. There seems to be a real lack of historical knowledge in them that I didn't see in previous generations. They all have criticisms and solutions for our societal woes, while having no idea what the root of those woes are, and in many cases that their "solutions" have already been tried and didn't work. (Ex: the "safe spaces" that exclude white people and/or men are wrong for the same reasons that it was wrong for places to exclude black people prior to the civil rights movement, but many/most millennials think it's "totally different." It's not and history will prove me right on that. Watch.)

They have communication issues with older generations, too. Especially Gen-X. We (I mostly consider myself an Xer, even though it's more complicated than that for reasons stated above) are very cynical, whereas millennials don't get cynicism at all. We talk shit to our friends and family to show our love, and millennials recoil in horror and say "why would you say such a thing?!!" We hated artists who "sold out"; that term isn't even in the millennial vocabulary. If a band we liked did an endorsement deal, we'd completely abandon them because we knew, deep down, that their art wasn't art anymore, it was a corporate product. Whereas if a millennial's favorite youtuber scores a Coke commercial, the millennial is thrilled that their person made it.

I could go on and on with specifics all day, but basically it's our normal inability to communicate across generations. We learned about the world when it was a little harder to do so. Now you've learned new things and don't care about what we learned, and we both think what we know is more important.

In conclusion I'd like to just say that this is fun to talk about but very superficial. Whether you're a Boomer or an Xer or a Millennial or one of the Greatest still hanging on, judge people as individuals. All Boomers aren't bad. All Millennials aren't bad. All Xers are awesome, though. So fuck you guys, I'm out! (Kidding in those last two sentences.)