The Word Hippies

I wish to say quite simply but firmly that I am sick of people especially news people using the word HIPPY ! Hippies have not really been around since appx circa 1967 or 1968. They evolved or devolved long ago. Most young people who use the term do not really know what a Hippy really was and adults who use it are generally using it a term of derision. So......Owen Bennett Jones of the BBC or Brian Williams of NBC and everyone else in between find another term......it is a vague , rather useless term.