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What is a millennial, boomer etc.
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I think they're both poopy....with the boomers getting more and more literally poopy.
That's what "they" say now. When "generation x" was first used in the early 1990s, maybe late 80s, it referred to anyone born from 1960-1980. Most people born in 1960-1964 have almost nothing in common with most baby boomers.
What category am I? When I was in high school we had no cellular telephone. We had no internet. We had no home computers. We had no graphically explicit violent video games. We had no social media. No chat rooms. No online gambling. No pornography at our fingertips. We had marijuana, and a few pills. Weed was cheaper than booze. We married our sweethearts and stayed that way for the most part....then all that changed and well, here we are.
Unfortunately, I'm an unable to find the exact article I read on Xennials (Gen X +Millenials), thus piquing my interest. I believe it originally came out in early 2017. I first read it in spring of 2017. Google now gives me two pages of summer and fall 2017 and 2018 articles but none of them were written in the same manner as this article.
As you all have described there are natural barriers that develop in each generation. According to that first article I read Xennials are as microgeneration born between 1977 and 1985.
We had an analog childhood and have a digital adulthood. We grew up around technology but did not rely on it and can be skeptical because we had slow dial up internet, cell phones that charged roaming and expensive call rates. We could not text but we had AOL and instant messenger but it tied up our phone line thus making the internet an enormous inconvenience. It's a generation that was spanked, gave parents free labor, did not receive participation trophies and were able to leave in the morning play all day and not be home until dark. We were the last generation that was not browbeaten into wearing protective gear on bikes and skateboards.
The article explained that it tends to be a generation skeptical of government and more libertarian. One thing the article did not mention, but is apparent is that generation fought in Afghanistan and Iraq as 19 year olds.
As you all have described there are natural barriers that develop in each generation. According to that first article I read Xennials are as microgeneration born between 1977 and 1985.
We had an analog childhood and have a digital adulthood. We grew up around technology but did not rely on it and can be skeptical because we had slow dial up internet, cell phones that charged roaming and expensive call rates. We could not text but we had AOL and instant messenger but it tied up our phone line thus making the internet an enormous inconvenience. It's a generation that was spanked, gave parents free labor, did not receive participation trophies and were able to leave in the morning play all day and not be home until dark. We were the last generation that was not browbeaten into wearing protective gear on bikes and skateboards.
The article explained that it tends to be a generation skeptical of government and more libertarian. One thing the article did not mention, but is apparent is that generation fought in Afghanistan and Iraq as 19 year olds.
indiucky
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So are we Generation X???? I do not identify with old hippies and I do not think at age 4 I was in any danger of getting called up for Vietnam....I may have pooped my pants if I was at Woodstock......
Well, "baby boomer" was original coined to describe the people born to those who were of child bearing age immediately after WW2. So if you figure people usually have kids between 20 and 40 years of age (with plenty of exceptions), that where you get the 1946 to 1964 (or 65) thing. When the term was coined, it really had nothing to do with attitudes, beliefs, etc. It was simply a huge bunch of kids born after WW2.
Later, when the earliest of that generation were becoming adults in the '60s, they started to see some generational similarities. Now, they look for the common cultural characteristics first, then try to build a generation definition around them, the exact opposite of how the baby-boomers got named.
I would note that most people who became young adults in the '60s were not hippies. However with the dominance of west coast culture, what the popular music was, movies, TV...and wanting to seem "hip" to people younger than them, we get a revisionist history about who was actually counter-culture and who wasn't from a lot of boomers.
Later, when the earliest of that generation were becoming adults in the '60s, they started to see some generational similarities. Now, they look for the common cultural characteristics first, then try to build a generation definition around them, the exact opposite of how the baby-boomers got named.
I would note that most people who became young adults in the '60s were not hippies. However with the dominance of west coast culture, what the popular music was, movies, TV...and wanting to seem "hip" to people younger than them, we get a revisionist history about who was actually counter-culture and who wasn't from a lot of boomers.
I rode that wave. Being born in 84 home computer and cell phones existed for the wealthy, then as technology got cheaper and better it grew up alongside me.
In elementary school I learned to look up things in books that I found with card catalogs.
By the time I was in Jr. High, I used a computerized card catalog to find the books faster.
By high school age I could use the catalog at home and reserve the book using the internet.
During high school I used fewer books and connected to on the internet for most research.
As an adult I have the entirety of human knowledge in my pocket, on demand, from anywhere.
Cell phones were for the wealthy then, but middle class homes like mine were buying computers already. I was 13 years old in 1984 and we had already had one of these for a few years:
By 1986, we had our first IBM clone:
You're right about technology getting cheaper, though. I haven't paid more than that Color Computer's price for a computer in years...and we all make a lot more money now.
indiucky
Grandmaster
But...But...Never mind....
There used to be talk about a generation Y which was the early millennial group.
You're both old, '67 for the win. Solidly older Gen Xer. Funny thing is I was dating an older Millennial (1983) for many years. It was funny when we would notice things, like I was 7 to 8 years old when the Vietnam War ended, she was the same age at the end of Gulf War I.
You're both old, '67 for the win. Solidly older Gen Xer. Funny thing is I was dating an older Millennial (1983) for many years. It was funny when we would notice things, like I was 7 to 8 years old when the Vietnam War ended, she was the same age at the end of Gulf War I.
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