What Do Millennials Really Want?

From their favorite digital devices to Lena Dunham, here’s what we learned

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What do you think of when you hear or read the word millennial?

Perhaps a smartphone-addicted twentysomething who spends her free time posting selfies on Instagram, sharing BuzzFeed lists on Facebook and creating socially conscious hashtags on Twitter? Or an overeducated, underemployed, not-so-recent college grad living at home with parents who raised him to believe he’s the most special snowflake? Or maybe Lena Dunham?

Photos: Joshua Scott; Producer: Samantha Kelly

While those clichés may apply to certain members of the millennial set, what really defines the more than 74 million adults 18-34 in the U.S.

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