Elspeth Reeve: Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation (The Atlantic Wire)
Basically, it's not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it's that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older.
The Christian Science Monitor: Has Generation Y overdosed on self-esteem?
Whoops. "For some, the study validates their suspicions of educational and parenting techniques that put undue emphasis on the positive: tot-level self-esteem boosterism, luxury-as-necessity entitlement, and what one calls 'instant fame-ification.'"