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I like your comment here, and I’ll add that Gen-X is the last generation to know a world without The Internet. That makes for a different perspective unique among G-X, in that we created the Internet, but are not necessarily as bound to it as the future generations are.

A Gen-X’er will most likely mock today’s Millennials and Gen-Z for their security blanket type addiction to their smartphone, which basically starts right out of the crib. While Gen-X will use the Net for all the same manor of things everyone else does, it’s not a permanent attachment to our very being. I can come on here, read some news, buy something online later, but still shut the computer off, and get my Adult duties done maintaining the house, going to work etc...

The modern Millennial and Gen-Z, when they actually get a job, has real trouble putting the phone/internet down and getting to work. I’ve seen this at my job, the young ones we hire are all but useless and frustrating to watch as they just will not put the phone away, constantly using it to surf social media or play games. And you’re not allowed to just go off on somebody shirking their duties like you use to either, Millennials have to be dealt with so delicately. The snowflake meme is real and a problem.

I’ll add that Gen-X is the last generation to know a world without The Internet

That's a great point. We learned how to live before the level of technology that exists now. The millennials have always had that "other world" of social media and the internet and therefore they can't comprehend existing without it. I remember working on a Texas Instruments computer as a teenager, and inwardly preferring my electric typewriter. Now look where we are!

So when Storm Isaias comes through and knocks out the power and the internet (still out in some places), it must really rattle them. I can still read a book by candle light and enjoy the quiet (although now that I work from home, no internet does kind of rattle me too, 'cause I like to be able to buy food!).