re: Before the Millennials, There was Generation X

I’m not a millennial. Nice try

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The idea of walking up to a girl you didn’t know at a mall and asking for her number

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The difference in social interaction between the generations is astounding to watch in action. I was born in 1981, and I fit in much better with older coworkers than younger. 1985 would seem to be a much better year to separate the generations in my opinion.
The one question I find that will separate the difference in mindset between X and millennials (males at least) is
"What car did you fantasize about owning when you were a teenager?"
If American made, X
If millennial, Japanese

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Im starting to wonder why the recent trend to vilify the baby boomer generation.

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It's political, started by SJWs. Victims always blame others for their own problems.

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Kids born in the 60s were socially and culturally far more gen X that Boomers.

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This is absolutely true. I have siblings born in the 50s and I'm nothing like them socially nor culturally. They are boomers. I am not.

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Millenials and boomers are a lot alike. They’re entitled and selfish and feel the need for attention constantly. I think gen Z will be a lot like Gen X

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Amazes me more people don't realize this. Go back to 1970 and the young adults were wearing crazy beards, getting filthy at music festivals, embracing leftist politics, and bitching mercilessly about their parents. Sound familiar?

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Spot on.

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I think that the Boomers genuinely fear the size of the Millennial generation and the fact that they will be the first generation who can successfully define the Boomers for who they truly are as a generation. We Gen X'ers tried, we were just too small of a group to make it stick.

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I'm an Xer but this is just silly.

One of the things I find fascinating about Millennials politically is that they seem to think doing shite that fricks the country over the next 30 years is going to "get back at" Boomers.

Has someone informed Millennials that boomers will be dead by then? IE, they won't be the ones getting fricked?

There could be a nuclear holocaust and this board would still be arguing about boomers, gen x and millennials.

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Bingo. Millennials are just Boomers on steroids.

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Certainly an argument can be made to this.

Boomers, and, I really don't do the whole disparage them thing...………..but still...…….Boomers were very responsible for some pretty serious expansion of government and social safety nets...………..followed by Xers who were like, "heeeeey, what the frick"...……….and now we've got Millennials who are throwing rocks at Boomers while basically trying to be Boomers X 10.

The impact that technology advancement has made on how we socialize (especially in formative years) defines the separation of X-Y-Z generations in different timeframes than I think these generations are currently defined.

For example, internet use and teens owning cell phones became mainstream in 2000-2003. If you were over 16 at this stage, then you have way more in common with people 5-10 years older than 5-10 years younger. That puts a rough start to millennials at 1985. Born before then and you socialized primarily in person or via landline. Instant communication/information didn't inform your upbringing. Sure, pop culture was different for a teen in the mid 80s vs a teen in the late 90s, but were their worlds that different (relative to millennials and post millennials)?

At the same time, a kid born in 1994 likely doesn't remember a life without widespread internet. By the time they ended high school in 2012, smart phones had become commonplace and social media had expanded far beyond Facebook. This draws another line to me, which creates a short generation from 85-93(ish) that grew up on both sides of the digital information age.

From 1994 on, I think we have today's young post-millenial generation under 27. On the older end, you have people whose socialization in college was greatly informed by social media platforms on mobile devices... Putting them under increasingly inescapable social pressures and unfathomable access to the world at young ages.