I started my blog just to share pictures with my friends and family, and then it turned into a tool for my business.

It wasn't easy to get started, though. The problem with starting a blog is the same for everyone: What do I write about?

I have written about a number of different things on my blog, trying to find an engaging topic for every post. I started out writing about virtues like courage and honesty, then I wrote about Twitter, and pretty soon I was writing almost exclusively about Twitter and social media for lawyers.

All my blog posts had one thing in common, though - not many people read them. But one day I got lucky and wrote about something people were passionate about - and I had more visitors to my site in two days than in the two months previous.

"Dude, you're in the Wall Street Journal" read the message from a friend on my Facebook wall. "What?" I thought as I read the message on my PDA. What would the Wall Street Journal have to say about me?

My friend Eli looked up from his spicy tuna roll to ask me: "You're in the Wall Street Journal?"

"I guess - that's what the message on Facebook says," I replied. "I need to get to a computer."

"Here it is," Eli said as he handed me his iPhone, having instantly pulled up the article from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog.

Under the headline "The Millennials: Generation Enlightened or Generation Lazy?" the article started out with a post from my blog: "We are not motivated by money. At least not as much as our parents were. The currency we are most interested in is lifestyle. Some of us are brilliant and hard working, but you have to dangle the right carrot in front of us."

I was identified in the blog post as "New York lawyer and Member of Generation Y, Adrian Dayton."

To put this in context, just 3 weeks earlier I had attended a panel in Chicago at the Inside Counsel Superconference entitled "Dealing With Generation Y @ Work." It wasn't so much a panel as a trash-talk-Generation-Y fest. Scott Greenfield started it out by saying, Generation Y - generally described as those of us born between the mid-1980s and early 1990s - "is entitled, lazy, selfish, tech savvy, and incompetent." Dan Hull added, "I've hired 15 lawyers from Generation Y, and not a single one is still working for me."

Then the only young person on the panel, Anthony Zana, tried to explain why he left the big-firm life for an in-house counsel position. "I've seen too many successful partners on their 3rd and 4th marriage - and I did not want that to be me," he wrote. "Even the ABA reports that depression, suicide, divorce, and alcoholism rates are higher for attorneys that work those types of hours."

It seems so obvious to the card-carrying members of Generation Y that billing 2,000 hours a year is not a recipe for a happy life, but they have a hard time communicating this. Baby boomers should understand that Generation Y is not motivated in the same way they were. In large part, Generation Y grew up with money and successful parents, but we would have traded it all just to have had parents that were around more. It is hard for Generation Y to communicate that to baby boomer bosses because our upbringings were so different. Whereas boomers were raised by parents who survived the Great Depression and World War II, we were raised by "Star Wars," "Transformers" and "Sesame Street."

Here were some of the interesting comments that readers shared in response to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog article:

• "As someone once noted, ‘The law is a jealous mistress and requires a long and constant courtship.' As a Gen-Xer who works with some Gen-Yers, I've never considered them to be more lazy, incompetent or difficult than any other generation." - Blackstone_MN

• "If the practice of law cannot lend itself to balance, then something is wrong with the practice of law, not the quest for balance." - Gen-something

• "Lazy? Incompetent? Please. The bar is 100 times higher for us today than it was for Boomers. We need to work, do a million extracurriculars, AND get straight As to get into the top undergrads and law schools. We've been juggling a million and five projects our whole lives - we know how to work. Just because a Boomer law partner might judge the success of his life by the size of his house, the number of Lexuses he owns, and the number of furs adorning his gold-digging wife, doesn't mean we do." - Gen Yer

• "It's a very real problem, with young lawyers who want big money, the corner office, the right to come to work as they please and leave as they please producing mediocre work and being incapable of accepting criticism or the will to work harder to improve the quality of the work. The demand for work/life balance, a very real movement for which there is no parallel in prior generations, conflicts with the responsibilities expected of lawyers. This is a very real problem, and some of the comments here reflect the sort of attitudes that make Gen Y lawyers problematic. While the Gen Y lawyers don't see a problem, many of the people who hire them see it quite clearly, as do the clients who suffer the consequences of their poor attitudes, poor work ethic and self-serving rationalizations." - Scott Greenfield

There were more than 75 comments posted to the Wall Street Journal blog, and almost as many on the topic on my blog.

What does that tell us? That there is a real conflict - and lack of understanding - on both sides. The biggest message I took away from it was that we'd better figure each other out - we're going to be together for a while.

Buffalo-based lawyer Adrian Dayton is CEO of Adrian Dayton PR. He maintains a blog at adriandayton.com and can be reached at atdayton@gmail.com.