re: Meet ‘Generation Snowflake'

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And here we go, millenials who don't IDENTIFY with being millenial. They FEEL like they should be Gen X or maybe make up some other generation label for them.

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It's a legit distinction to be made.

The older half of Millennials/Gen Y...

- Remember well a time before the internet
- Were either teenagers or young adults when social media was invented
- Were teenagers when 9/11 happened and remember it well and could absorb all the implications
- Were either relatively new to the work force or were about to graduate college during the teeth of the recession
- Were, by far, the largest demographic group to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

The differences in social experience are pretty damn big. Do you remember all of this crap coming from campuses during the Bush years? Because that's when the older half of Gen Y was in school.