Jonesers were the people who as teens in
the 1970’
s made this slang word popular, but beyond this historical claim, many believe
the concept of jonesing is among this generation’s key collective personality traits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the optimistic 1960’s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age in the pessimistic 1970’s, leaving them with a certain unrequited, jonesing quality.