What’s wrong this generation?

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It's incredibly strange that people base their "type" on how a person looks, instead of whether they are attracted to the person and interested in getting to know them better.
There's something terribly wrong with this new generation.

Do you agree with my opinion?

No.

It's been true for every generation for thousands of years.

This generation has no particular claim on superficiality.

Really? I thought back in the mid to late 2000s people were less shallow..

Nope, these young folks are shallow and awful and going to propel the world into the mouth of hell has been a standard complaint for at least two thousand years: probably longer.

The history of lust-at-first-sight was recorded as far back as the reign of King David, and even further back.

There was never a "pure" generation.

I don't agree.

Many prior generations were obsessed with how people look, too.

Think of Hollywood starlets, pin-up girls, and women fawning over handsome suitors, to make gorgeous babies.

I think this generation is much more reasonable because they get to know each other (social media) as well as by dating for a long time before settling down. In the past people rushed into marriage to get their rocks off.

The people I know in this generation are socially conscious, well-read and interesting people.

I try not to discriminate or stereotype against people regardless of their age.

Previous generations however weren't pitted against each other competing for "likes" & "influence" & "klout" on advertising platforms they paid for & carried in their pockets.

If the serviceis free, people are the product. Boomers were not surveillance capitalism fodder.

Judging people solely by their appearance was once beneficial to early humans, since looking physically attractive meant a person had no diseases or parasites and would make a suitable mate. But now it brings nothing but pain and trouble like everything else that's perfectly natural for humans to do. All the knowledge and education in the world can't change how our brains make us instinctively react.

No, but they were pitted against each other competing for "likes", "influence", and "clout" in the courts of emperors, kings, and princes of their day.

That's not a valid comparison. Royalty =/= silicon valley oligarchy.

"Those who hold the wealth make the rules."  Royalty ... oligarchy ... Mafia Godfather ... a rose by any other name ...

Humans have always competed for social “points” and acclaim, whether they’re stone-age hunter gatherers, peasant farmers, royalty or teenagers on instaswipe or whatever.
And they’ve always vilified, hounded and persecuted those who fail to gain enough “points”.
Interweb just means they can do it anonymously across borders rather than being limited to their immediate neighbourhood.

Literally from your post on March 28, 2020:

"Do you think if I want a relationship at any cost I should settle for someone who is not my ideal choice?"

It's almost like you're saying there are women you're NOT really attracted to and therefore wouldn't really want to be with.

That's incredibly strange, why don't you get to know them better?

What's really about the Generation after mines that hasn't occurred in my Generation and before?Maybe the next Generation is bit less intelligent or maybe a bit more snobby,but not really more superficial. People have always been superficial,and always judged how other people looked since the beginning.So it's nothing new .

No, every generation has been shallow about looks. Avoid those types of people and focus on the people who do exist who aren't into looks.

Thing is though, it's the same for you. You can't have double standards, if you want someone to like you for you (personality) then you have to like them for them (personality). If you want someone to be hot then you have to look conventionally attractive and go for shallow people. Most people honestly find a compromise between the two.

It's human to judge people subconsciously by their outer appearance. It's not generational, it's innate to have this bias.