iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

by Jean M. Twenge

Activity after activity, iGen’ers are less social than Millennials, GenX’ers, and Boomers were at the same age. As we saw in chapter 1, iGen’ers are less likely to go out or to go on dates. They are also less likely to “drive around in a car just for fun”—the activity at the center of teen movies of previous eras such as Dazed and Confused and American Graffiti