re: A person born in 1981 is a Millennial or Generation X?

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I have heard both. Years ago when Douglas Coupland's book came out he marked it at 1961 because generations are generally assumed to run in twenty year increments roughly. But I have seen 1965 used as a starting year as well.

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Well if the Boomers were born starting in 1945, then boomers are 45-65 and X is 65-85. Obviously there is a blending towards the last 5 years. Kids born in 81-85 didn't have the same experience as I did being born in 71 and cognizant during the Reagan years.

What are my kids born after 2005?

The dividing line for Millennials should probably around the time the personal computer started coming about. Of course the millennial would say when the Macintosh was introduced.

I was born in '77 and I'm definitely a tweener. I've read where there's thinking that there's a lost generation between the late 70's and late 80's where kids born in that 10 year period came up in an environment of complete change.

Too young to have experienced the coke crazed 80's but were old enough to remember growing up in an unplugged era, too old now to have been educated for the new digital economy and the world they were being prepared for disappeared.

The acceptance and usage of technology is typically what separates a tweener from being more Gen X, Gen Z, or a millennial.