Psychologist Jean Twenge described millennials as " Generation Me " in her 2006 book '' Generation Me : Why Today ’s Young Americans Are More Confident , Assertive , Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before '' , which was updated in 2014 . In 2013 , '' Time '' magazine ran a cover story titled '' Millennials : The Me Me Me Generation '' . '' Newsweek '' used the term '' Generation 9/11 '' to refer to young people who were between the ages of 10 and 20 during the terrorist acts of September 11 , 2001 . The first reference to " Generation 9/11 " was made in the cover story of the 12 November 2001 issue of '' Newsweek '' . Alternative names for this group proposed include '' Generation We '' , '' Global Generation '' , '' Generation Next , '' '' The '' '' Net Generation '' and '' The Burnout Generation ''
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