Western Civilisation and its internet-savvy inhabitants have been divided up now into four distinct groups. We have Teens, Gen Xers, Baby Boomers and Millennials, the last of which takes a lot of flack. In recent studies people aged 18-34 have been billed as the least fun, the most irritating and poorest. Well in a cheery new study by Microsoft on digital civility it seems that in comparison to the other generations they’re also the most likely to experience detrimental effects to one’s life from the pains of being on the internet. The score was taken from a group of 11,157 people of varying age groups and nationalities and 73% of Millennials agreed that they were at risk of encountering hostility online. The research collected proved that Baby Boomers and Teens were the least likely to be affected, interestingly. Perhaps this is due to baby Boomers being less involved in the internet as during their youth it simply wasn’t around and the fact that teenagers, for the exact opposite reason, are safer online because they grew up with it and know exactly how to navigate it. Millennials are named as such because they grew up at the turn of the Millennium, ...

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