re: Gen X People Are Pretty Cool

Look, you don’t have to be a jerk about it.

It’s a snowball rolling downhill with each generation..

I’m Gen X and my oldest is 8. She seems pretty awesome to me.

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1980 is definitely not Gen X. It’s millennial. They more than likely have more in common with someone born in 1985 than someone born in 1975.

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I’m not arguing with the numbers but I was born in 83. I identify waaaaaaaay more with somebody born in 73 than I do 93.

I was a latch key kid and grew up in the “come home when the lights come on” generation. I also grew up in a house with a vhs and car with an 8 track.

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I’m not arguing with the numbers but I was born in 83. I identify waaaaaaaay more with somebody born in 73 than I do 93.

I was a latch key kid and grew up in the “come home when the lights come on” generation. I also grew up in a house with a vhs and car with an 8 track.

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We get it man you want to hang with the cool Gen X kids. My son is still in his early teen's so throwing out kids born to Gen X is probably complicated because they probably range from 30's to teens or younger.

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Gen X People Are Pretty Cool

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That's cuz we're the Hip-Hop Generation. We built this shite! 1973 playboi!

They all wanted to be the "friend" parents.
Doesn't work....

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I’m not arguing with the numbers but I was born in 83. I identify waaaaaaaay more with somebody born in 73 than I do 93. I was a latch key kid and grew up in the “come home when the lights come on” generation. I also grew up in a house with a vhs and car with an 8 track.

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That’s because Millennials should be a very small micro generation, as the whole point of the name was that they were “coming of age at the new millennium”. Gen X should wrap up with people who reached full adulthood prior to the digital age. Gen Z should begin with people who don’t remember an analog world.

Millennials should be the bridge, born into an analog world and aging into a digital one. No more than about ten years or so. Basically, what some people are now calling “Xennials” or “the Oregon Trail generation”. Technology, and how the world interacted with technology, was moving far too fast at that point to keep to a “traditional” generation length.

That’s a scary thing to consider. I’m an older millennial but was raised by a combo of boomer parents and silent generation grand parents. I wasn’t allowed to run wild in stores or disrespect adults or teachers, and if I did, I got spanked. That’s not really common with the gen x parents I see. Many of them basically let their kids run wild with no consequences.