The Story: A new study shows that people younger than thirty are the most unhappy.  Well cheer up buttercup, here’s some reasons why you should smile.

The Search: Angriest Americans

Americans under 30 years old have it tough. Not only did they grow up in an environment where rapidly changing technology influenced their lives for the better, but most of them missed out on Jimmy Carter’s entire presidency. Recently, a study of 1,800 Americans over the age of 18 conducted by a researcher at the University of Toronto, found that people younger than thirty were (in non-technical terms) more PO’d then everyone else. So why is the youth of America so generally disenchanted all of the time? One might speculate that it’s because the damned DVR keeps cutting off the first and last minute of Family Guy episodes, but that’s not what the survey says. According to researcher Scott Schieman, it’s factors such as “time pressures,” “economic hardship”, and “interpersonal conflict at the workplace” that have the youth of a nation foaming at the mouth or at least seething with vitriol. While we too have felt the sting of the previous three factors, we tend to always look on the bright side of life. So in order to help our fellow youngsters find reasons to turn that frown upside down, we’d like to present a few things to be happy about.

Technology- Did you know that way back in the day when people had nothing to do at work, they just had to sit there? Imagine having to hide an actual game of solitaire or the fact that you were looking at porn at your desk from your boss with a deck of cards and a magazine present. Oh and that cell phone you tote around, that means you can talk to someone from anywhere, not call your friends from a germ-ridden phone booth where some vagrant relieved himself the previous evening. (more…)