The current stream of oversensitive and meaningless Gen Y material is numbing. The internet is saturated in its white noise. Our news feeds are victims to the "outrage" that now define my generation. We interpret "freedom of speech" as "indulgence of speech". Importantly, as a result of the constantly reinvented hysteria it creates, Gen Y stymies its ability to actively debate and critically assess important issues.

Why does the material pumped out by my generation have this common stink? Tim Urban, writer of renowned blog Wait But Why, has labelled our overly vocal mob "GYPSYs": Gen Y Protagonists and Special Yuppies . Urban explains that bolstered by the promises of the most successful surviving generation, the Baby Boomers, Gen Y is deluded as to its uniqueness and its potential for wonder. Unrealistic expectations minimise the capacity to accept critical feedback. Couple this with a platform to connect to other like-minded souls (the internet), and you begin to see why our voice is so clearly the loudest.

Self-justified in ‘‘having a voice’’ and ‘‘the right to speak our mind’’, we hound anyone who steps outside the impossibly narrow grounds of what we deem as acceptable. Credit:Frank Maiorana

It is this ill-fitting combination of ultimate self-belief and dependence on social media approval that engenders the outrage, often on somebody else's behalf, that is the stimulus for the content we produce. Self-justified in "having a voice" and "the right to speak our mind", we hound anyone who steps outside the impossibly narrow grounds of what we deem as acceptable.