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

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 a little kid, we did not have a computer. We got one when I was in elementary school and did not have the internet until I was in Jr High. Then, it was dialup to Prodigy. I remember waiting 10 minutes to see a picture of a Ferrari F40 come up line-by-line. I didn't have a cell phone until I was a Jr in high school. 

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Most Generation Xers were grown and living on their own (or only a few years from it) before they had home internet or a cell phone.

I grew up with a rotary dial phone in a household that saved and washed aluminum foil. This doesn't make me a boomer or part of the greatest generation.

Has anyone mentioned generation Y yet? Because we kind of got lost in the millennial shuffle.


I consider 81-89 Generation Y. Definitely not millenials, and not genXers.

Generation Y is the millennial generation. The terms are used interchangeably. Sorry, you're millennial.

I was born 81 and don't have a damn thing in common with millenials.

The internet should be a milestone that separates generations. When I was in elementary school the only computers we had were in the library and once a year we got to play Oregon Trail for 5 minutes each off a 5.25" floppy disk.

I had dialup at home until college. It took a couple hours to download a song off napster. We didn't have Google. If you wanted to look something up you had to try a bunch of search engines (lycos, alta vista, etc).

If you wanted to learn something you read it in a book because it was a pain in the arse to use the internet. And our parents couldn't help us one bit. We had to teach them to use a mouse.

My generation oversaw the complete transition from no Internet to 100% Internet. I consider millenials to be those who grew up with computers and fast, usable Internet.

My college CADD classes were the last to teach hand drafting with pencils and vellum along with autocad. My generation is the overlap between the old way and the new way of doing things. We learned both.

Millenials would shite if they had to use a card catalog at a library.

my chem teacher in high school made us use a sliderule because he thought calculators were too advanced

i think technology that changes social interaction is a bigger variable than the overarching tech itself

so things like instant messengers, social networking platforms, cell phones, etc mark very different generations

secondary variables like the dissolving of long distance phone rates are major demarcation points

hell i was in undergrad 01-05 and i played madden/NCAA online and it was shocking to people

at the end of high school i was all up in counter-strike

it's just one of those things that is hard to think about, especially if the technology is available to you. so i'm 32 and i watch youtube and have twitter and what not. but an 18 year old grew up with those sorts of outlets as a primary social driver

their entire concept of "social" is going to be completely different than mine

and in 5 years they're either going to have to early adopt to the next generation or be like me with the next group of kids growing up with a completely different set of tools facilitating social interaction. these things really change sense of self and the world

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1965-1984- gen -x

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This is latest I ever see for X. Usually I see 1981 as the cutoff.

Either way, you bitches born in 1986 or whatever aren't in. You're a millenial. Make peace with that fact regardless of how you "feel"

I'm 84 and I'm far from
A millennial. I have millennial friends and I would say born on or after 90, really seriously you notice the cultural differences of one

Eta Proud to be a card carrying gen Xr then!