Diary of a Gen Z Student: If your birth year starts with a 19, we experience social media differently

For me, Facebook falls into the same category as Myspace and encyclopaedia collections

Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan photographed at her home in Dunshaughlin, County Meath.

Since starting to write this column, I’ve been reminded of all the things older people struggle with when it comes to understanding Gen Z: Our dislike of phonecalls, our neologism, how we omit punctuation when we text, our desire for an old-fogey-free night club. The list goes on.

Plenty of my readers tell me this. I provide fodder for the keyboard warriors. They say I know nothing about real life.