What has caused Generation Y to become anti-social?

Question

Besides the obvious answer of technology?

Answer 1

Try the fact that there were no places for them to be, even when they were small. No parks, no farms, no empty lots to play on.
And then add the fact that they grew up mostly alone. The birth rate has been remarkably low for years. People in their fifties sixties or seventies were raised in a swarm of children. Kids in their twenties and thirties might have grown up as the only child on their block. Younger kids are even more isolated. In my area there are not enough kids close enough in age to make up two baseball teams in eight blocks of housing.
Next is the technology of internet and TV. It is not as important as the fact that they really have no where to go and nobody to go with. Generation X filled the Malls. Younger kids have been excluded as security risks. They can't afford the arcades or anything else anymore and because there are so few of them they are likely the most spied upon generation in history. In my generation there was about three kids for every adult. There was no way every child could be totaly monitored. Now the ratio is about 5 adults for every child. They can't twitch without it being noticed or corrected.
I am amazed at how sane most of them manage to remain.

PS not so much ANTI social as A social, a small but important difference

Answer 2

Well, technology is the most obvious, but perhaps it could also be lack of parenting time. Parents don't seem to have the time to spend with their children to teach them the social "niceties". Also, I don't know that kids are as involved in activities like Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, 4H, etc. that taught them some social skills and gave them some practice. Also, the parents probably spend a lot more of their time at home working on work stuff.

Answer 3

i think society has gotten used to "instant gratification". science and technology only deserve half the blame in my opinion. another factor is religious ideology. generation y also has large self-righteous population. this country is split in two. one side of dogmatic bible thumpers, the other side a bunch of pompous liberal elitists. one side talks to much without listening and the other doesn't talk at all because they already got their starbucks and left. i love being a flip flopper.

Answer 4

That's really all I can think of: technology.

The introduction of television, video games, and the internet has given kids less and less reasons to get out and talk to real people.

Answer 5

Because they have their heads where the sun dont shine.