Gen Z Has Gone Postal: The Most Online Generation Are Ditching DMs For Stamps

"My letter isn't data. It's just a letter. Nobody's going to serve me an ad based on what I wrote to my mate about his break-up. That feels like the bare minimum, but apparently it isn't."

It is 2026. Artificial intelligence can write your dissertation, generate your face, and compose a symphony in the style of Beethoven if Beethoven had grown up on SoundCloud. The metaverse exists. (Nobody’s in it, but it exists.)

And Gen Z – digital natives, chronically online, the generation that essentially grew up inside a WiFi router ...