Instant Gratifications Spoiling Millennials Personally and Professionally

What is Instant Gratifications? Instant gratification is the desire to experience pleasure or fulfilment without delay or deferment that means now.

Who are Millennials? Millennials are of a current generation a.k.a Y generation who are born approximately after 1984 and working in the corporate world in their 20s and 30s.

Why is instant gratification used on Social sites? In a 2012 study, Harvard Research scientists reported that talking about oneself through social media activates a pleasure sensation in the human brain usually associated with FOOD, MONEY, and SEX. It releases DOPAMINE. 

In the current world of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, most of the millennials are hooked by the social addiction to show how happy they are to the external world even though they are feeling lonely within. 

They are smart but in a true sense they are becoming lazy, having low self-esteem and are tough to manage. I am sure many Human Resource Managers and Marriage Counsellers will agree with me. 

How it is impacting Personally:

• Texting or Talking while Driving
• Meeting Friends in-person but glued online to update own status or checking others status of virtual friends over addictive social apps like Facebook / WhatsApp / Instagram / Snapchat
• Once they post a message on FB or Twitter, they keep watching how many likes s/he got if no one has responded they feel that he or she must have done something wrong
• Trauma to become unfriended is too high
• While Playing or Jogging they are connected to iTunes instead of listening to beautiful chimes or observing little things around them

Suggestions: > Do not go online when you are out with family/friends > When outside Use your phone only in case of emergency

How it is impacting Professionally:

• ?Attending team meetings but busy texting friends or colleague on social media or busy collaborating over email or answering calls before the meeting starts. This leads to dent in whole single purpose of meeting to have focused discussion or build deep meaningful relationship
• More focusing on Conference Calls or emails rather than Meeting in Person

Suggestions: > Strictly NO to use of Mobile or Laptop once you get into Meeting Room > In an emergency call please leave the meeting > Give some more time to have meaningful impact as it needs time

Deep meaningful relationships at home and work are gone for a toss. They may have 500+ socials friends but may not have a single close friend to go to when they are in deep stress. 

This results in they leaving a job or a marriage within few years as they become impatient to see the results within a short time. They do not have enough patient to let their relationship grow after facing few disagreements or not having impactful experience.

It is important for the social and corporate world to cope-up with them patiently and built more personal connect to rebuild deep meaningful relationships.