re: Are boomers illiterate or just going senile?

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What?

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when I was a kid, I had internet. I don’t think it means much though because kids weren’t really using the internet in the early to mid 2000s like they are now.

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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 don’t think it’s much of a difference in how you lived life or see the world, which is what’s being argued

Younger millennials had early iPhones and Facebook while the hypothetical 32 year old had a flip phone and MySpace. It’s not worlds apart at all.

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I'm not. I was born in 1988.

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OK. Yeah, that's millennial.

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None of what I said was referring to something existing when I was 3. That would be stupid and disingenuous. I'm referring to things that were a significant part of my life.

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There's a lot on the individual level that can skew it. Having older influences like an older brother or sister, growing up poor, growing up in an area of the country or in a family that's further behind the times. All of these things can push you back a generation.

My only point was, Generations don't just cut off. Somebody born in 1979 isn't completely different than somebody born in 1980. There's usually a transition period between the major generations and those transition periods are called cusp Generations. They usually distinctly different from the generation before or the generation after and have their own characteristics.

As it is, XY cuspers are more like Gen-X than they are like Millennials simply because the internet age had such a profound impact on society and Millennials are firmly rooted in that. Cuspers experienced a lot of their childhood prior to that and the internet age didn't really take off for them until they were out of high school.

I know and have observed many people people well into theoir 30’s(millennial or not) who are utterlytransfixed by their mobile device and inept at dealing with flesh and blood people. Trust me, at 31, you still have plenty to learn. Most of my most meaningful and useful experience occurred after the age of 30. That’s true professionally and personally.

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Welcome, soy boy. From my perspective as a boomer and one who interviewed young people for employment as a technical professional, the millennials and later and worked under my supervision, were marginal compared to the work of the "boomer" generation.

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when I was a kid, I had internet. I don’t think it means much though because kids weren’t really using the internet in the early to mid 2000s like they are now.

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I meant what to the dial up in 2006 thing. I didn't know that was possible.

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I don’t think it’s much of a difference in how you lived life or see the world, which is what’s being argued

Younger millennials had early iPhones and Facebook while the hypothetical 32 year old had a flip phone and MySpace. It’s not worlds apart at all.

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Well when you simplify it like this, of course you don't see a difference.

Anecdotal, but I know a lot of people who are kinda directionally challenged which could be explained by having a GPS in their pocket when they started driving. The mindset of always documenting stuff on social media and the portrayal of a perfect life is definitely more prominent in people who got Facebook at a younger age. Even moreso with the zoomers.

Whether it's a bad thing or a big deal is another thing on its own, but the differences are definitely there.

boomers dumbest generation
millennials soyest generation
zoomers goat

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There's a lot on the individual level that can skew it. Having older influences like an older brother or sister, growing up poor, growing up in an area of the country or in a family that's further behind the times. All of these things can push you back a generation.

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Absolutely. Another reason why generational studies should be a starting point. A lot of people seem to think that the attributes listed for a generation means every single member of that generation exhibits them, which is silly.

And I understand cusp generations, I was just pointing out that your posts are definitely more favorable to your own generation, which is what I was talking about earlier.

To further to point about people being different within the same generation: if a cusp generation of say 1978 to 1984 is considered similar yet distinctly different from the generations before and after it, wouldn't it stand to reason that the same would hold true within each generation? Someone born in 1986 and 1996 could share a lot in common, yet be very different in a lot of ways, just like people born in 1978 vs 1988. This is why using generations as the end all be all is kinda dumb.

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

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Hmmm...

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Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)

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So only Millenials born the first 3 weeks of 1981 are 39 right now? Kind of stretching to make your point.

Glad to be Gen X here (born in 79) as the younger group of Millenials are largely narcissistic and lazy. The ones in the 24 to 32'ish range. Maybe Boomers just think you all act like 13-year-olds.

Bet the OP still lives with his mom who pays all his bills and makes him pancakes every morning.

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All my kids are zoomers. They've been easy to raise. The two teens are very conservative in personality like all of their friends. No bars and wild stuff like when I was 15-17.

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My youngest is 13 so we haven't gotten there yet. She's pretty laid back so I don't imagine her being too wild. I hope she's nothing like I was.