Reponse to the Millenial Piece from "60 Minutes"

A link to the "60 Minutes" piece: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes/main3475200.shtml

For a generation that grew up on the Internet and living in such an individualistic world, having a label seems ludicrous.
The only common link between everyone in our generation is that we lead two lives, one digital and one in the flesh. The digital one actually defines us more than the one in the flesh. Our motto isn't “actions speak louder than words,” but, “thoughts speak louder than words.”
While we spent years trying to find others to connect with, the rest of the world was oblivious. Parents thought the harm was in video games, violent movies, and television shows. They overlooked that they weren't parenting anymore, the Internet raised us. The Internet weaned us from when we could form ideas, and in it's enormity we thought we had no new ideas.
Sure, that isn't true. New ideas occur all the time, since forming new ideas and implanting them is a reactive thing. Instead of working in isolation or with the people immediately around us, our generation was competing with and against the world. Instead of a girl in India and a guy in Canada coming up with separate ideas and never meeting each other, they could meet each other and realize that they aren't alone.
Our generation still has growing up to do. Our ideas are just calls to action instead of an informed examination of all the sides involved. We're being told of a problem, and we've been conditioned to just act. We learned not to disseminate information, but instead just take whatever information we've been conditioned to accept.
In the report, some of the sources mention, “helicopter" parents and how they'll call company HR about getting a raise. While this is pathetic, I can almost see this is an extended search for one's self, and what trying to figure out who we are. After all of the time we've spent building our digital selves, and trying to connect into something bigger than ourselves, but what are we after that? The answer to that question, which normally plagues the existential philosophers, is so widespread because our digital lives don't cozy up to the real world.
All of this doesn't group us though; it's the equivalent of saying everyone who uses the neighborhood pool in the summer is one identifiable group because they all use the pool. Before the Internet, identities were like that though. Everyone who went to a disco was immediately one person, while another who listened to hip-hop was another. But now, the geeky kid can be listening to that hip-hop, but this doesn't make him. It takes an examination of all of his parts, of all his identities and facades before we can say who that person is, and in this Internet age, we don't have time to do that.
Older generations try to pigeonhole us because that is what others have done to them beforehand. The world has had a paradigm shift, in that there are two worlds now, and while older generations scramble to figure out what to do we sit dazed at it all. We may all be the same age, somewhat sheltered from the real world, and a tiny bit narcissistic, but that isn't enough to lump us together.