Are we really listening to Gen Z?

If we rely only on social media, we risk trading depth for speed and facts for opinions.

The Nepali Generation Z is living in two Nepals at once. On one side, there is the Nepal of our preceding generations: Newspapers/radios in the morning, Facebook scrolls in the afternoon and broadcast news in the evening. On the other side, there is our Nepal: Doomscrolling through Instagram and Facebook for reels, TikTok clips, Twitter and Reddit threads, where our peers argue, laugh, criticise and dream about change.