https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/03/here-is-when-each-generation-begins-and-ends-according-to-facts/359589/


Greatest Generation. These are the people that fought and died in World War II for our freedom, which we appreciate. But it's a little over-the-top as far as names go, isn't it? Tom Brokaw made the name up and of course everyone loved it. What, you're going to argue with your grandfather that he isn't in the greatest generation? The generation ended when the war ended.

Baby Boomers. This is the agreed-upon generation that falls within DiPrete's punctuated timeframe. It began when the Greatest Generation got home and started having sex with everyone; it ended when having sex with everyone was made easier with The Pill.

Generation X. George Masnick, of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the timeframe of 1965 to 1984, in part because it's a neat 20-year period. He also calls it the "baby bust," mocking "undits on Madison Avenue and in the media" that call it Generation X. Ha ha, tough luck.

Generation Y. Masnick addresses this group, too, putting it "anywhere from the mid-1970s when the oldest were born to the mid-2000s when the youngest were." But mostly Generation Y is a made-up generation when it became obvious that young kids didn't really fit with the cool Generation X aesthetic but not enough of them had been born to make a new generation designation. NOTE: Generation Y is a fake, made-up thing. Do not worry about it.

Millennials. In October 2004, researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss called Millennials "the next great generation," which is funny. They define the group as "as those born in 1982 and approximately the 20 years thereafter." In 2012, they affixed the end point as 2004.

TBD. But that means that kids born in the last 10 years lack a designation. They are not Millennials. Earlier this month, Pew Research asked people what the group should be called and offered some terrible ideas. In other words, this is the new Generation Y. We'll figure out what they're called in the future

they spent more time on iphones as babies than they did sucking on their mamas nipples.

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Like someone is supposed to have all that much in common with another person who was born while you were in college or boot camp or whatever. Generations shouldn't span much longer than 10 years.

It should be about common experiences.

That's why I think we are more Gen X than Millenials because we (Gen Y) like Gen X, spent a signficant time of our lives without the internet, the defining technology of this age.

We are a part of the post WWII generation that group up on television and American Prosperity.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

i have officially crossed the point where i've lived longer with the internet than without.
i can still ride the internet wave
but i experienced rotary phones

i don't mind the millennial title because i like there being a spectrum to each of the labels

and once we're all geriatric we're all gonna look think and act similar anyway

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

THeew generation is already being called generation z in the marketing world. Most of the traits of this generation are still to be determined.

Gen X stops at 1979 and are known as Xennials
Gen Y stops at 1999 and starts at 1980.
Gen Z starts at 2000 and stops this year.

ok?

90's baby. So I identify with a whole lot of Gen X (older Gen Y) ethos


All of this while technically being a "millenial"

thats how i remember being referred to

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Looking back...September 11th (I was in my first semester at college) was still a part of my childhood...and I know that's true for a lot of the kids that were born through the 90s. A lot of my "growing up" was deciding how I wanted to relate to the world and what I thought I could reasonably accomplish feeling frustrated by the political priorities of the early '00s.

The internet and smartphones weren't always part of my life, but we're all old enough to know that technology constantly changes and will continue to change. I definitely feel like kids born in the late 90s have more in common with my technological experience than kids that were born after '05 and had access to mobile apps while they were developing a theory of mind and language skills.

One big difference in my life compared to Cold War kids and War on Terror/School Shooting kids was intentional, acute human violence seemed to be less scary than things like earthquakes and hurricanes. Part of that was idealism and a lack of global perspective as a kid, and also because we treated things like DDT and the "hole in the ozone" as problems with solutions (while lacking proper perspective on the larger/looming crises related to extinctions and climate change), but I think that naive optimism defined my childhood too.