The Wall Street Journal is owning up to overuse, and often misuse, of “Millennial,” calling it a “snotty term.” They’ve confessed in a post that they’re guilty of using “Millennial” less as a demographic term and more as a derisive blanket classification of twenty-somethings, and sometimes teens. The publication doesn’t want to “risk alienating” Millennial readers, and plans to use the word to describe the generation in a more precise (and less mocking) way. (Mashable, WSJ)
