re: Are boomers illiterate or just going senile?

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I'm sure you're just joking, but let's pretend.

People who say this are total liars. It sounds nice and is the politically correct response, but it never happens.

People make instant judgements about new people 100% of the time. You might not speak it out loud, but you instantly make a judgement about a new person based on given information, personal bias and known stereotypes. This of course will change as you get to know someone better, but your initial reaction is still a judgement.

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You're not understanding the difference between an individual and a group. I am saying lumping everyone in a bracket to negatively identify someone is the same thing as using a term "all blacks" or "all whites". You're just identifying a certain age group instead of a certain skin color.

Sure, you have a first impression and a judgement is based off of that. But you're at least judging someone you're interacting with and it doesn't impact your judgement of other people of similar age, color or creed. Not the same thing.

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Do you old fricks realize that there are some millennials who are 39 years old?

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Those are Gen X, frickface.

Signed,

A 39 year old Gen Xer

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Millennials only grew up with digital.

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Again, how old do you people think millennials are?

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XY cuspers head record players, cassette tapes, CDs and then MP3s.

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We had all of these too. I even remember making mixtapes by recording songs as they played on the radio.

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They also had rotary dial phones, touch-tone phones and then didn't get cell phones until they were out of high school for the most part.

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We did too, although I and most of my friends got our first cell phones around the time we started driving.

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Gen X grew up solidly in an analog world before the digital revolution and the internet. Millennials grew up solidly in a digital world and knew nothing of analog life. XY cuspers grew up through the change so they have perspective on both.

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This is only true if you consider millennials as born after 1995.

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Also, raising kids was a lot different during that time period. Cuspers still rode their bikes to their friends houses and we were told to come home before the lights came on. Cuspers were the last of the latchkey kids.

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Again something millennials did too.

You typed a lot of words just to say your cusper generation is superior.

32 year olds were a part of that group that graduated college around 2009, didn’t get jobs, and moved back home with parents. They basically started the “I have advanced degrees but work at Starbucks” meme.

Well, I enjoyed it. I like this trend of threads where two crappy generations argue over which dropped the biggest turd.

Sure I had dial up internet in 2006 when I was 12, but what were kids even doing on the internet back then? Not much at all

And I just don’t think me having a flip phone in middle school and a blackberry in high school is that much different than a kid having a flip phone in high school

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Those are Gen X, frickface. 

Signed, 

A 39 year old Gen Xer

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Yep. They're trying to suck you in. 1981 is definitely late X. I'd say X is 65-83.

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Sure I had dial up internet in 2006

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What?

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And I just don’t think me having a flip phone in middle school and a blackberry in high school is that much different than a kid having a flip phone in high school

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My first phone in high school could call and receive calls, receive texts, but not send them, and that was it. By the time I graduated, the iPhone came out. I'd say that's a significant difference.

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I'd say X is 65-83.

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Except it isn't...