re: I am not a baby boomer, nor a millenial

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I am gen X. I am one of the best. I know many on here are in this age range.


Sorry for being superior. If you don't like it I will kick your arse in asteroids or galaga.

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eople born from 1980-1995 are millennials

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Honestly that makes almost no sense at all.

What exactly does someone who graduated high school in 1998 have in common with someone that graduated high school in 2013?

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Because generations typically have a 20 years range. You are going to have some social differences on the border kids. It's not an exact freakin science.

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someone who graduated high school in 2013 is not a Millennial.

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I'm aware. I'm saying that if you want them to actually have merit as far as a description of the generation goes, then tightening them much more would make more sense. There was a time before pop culture and rapid technology growth where there likely was not much difference in a person being born 20 or 30 or more years apart. That's just not the case any longer. I honestly don't care other than it being a topic of conversation...

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Making generations 5-10 years seems pointless

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A minority of demographers and researchers start the generation in the mid-to-late 1970s, such as MetLife which uses birth dates ranging 1977–1994, and Nielsen Media Research which uses the earliest dates from 1977 and the latest dates 1995 or 1996.

The majority of researchers and demographers start the generation in the early 1980s, with some ending the generation in the mid-1990s. Australia's McCrindle Research[27] uses 1980–1994 as Generation Y birth years. A 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers report used 1980 to 1995. Gallup Inc.,[29][30][31] and MSW Research use 1980–1996. Ernst and Young uses 1981–1996.

A 2018 report from Pew Research Center defines Millennials as born from 1981-1996, choosing these dates for "key political, economic and social factors", including September 11th terrorist attacks. This range makes Millennials 5-20 years old at the time of the attacks so "old enough to comprehend the historical significance". Pew indicated they'd use 1981-1996 for future publications but would remain open to date recalibration.

Some end the generation in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Goldman Sachs, Resolution Foundation, and a 2013 Time magazine cover story all use 1980–2000. SYZYGY, a digital service agency partially owned by WPP, uses 1981–1998, and the United States Census Bureau uses 1982–2000. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary describes Millennials as those born roughly between the 1980s and 1990s.

Demographers William Straus and Neil Howe who are widely credited with coining the term, define Millennials as born between 1982–2004. However, Howe described the dividing line between millennials and the following Generation Z as "tentative", saying "you can’t be sure where history will someday draw a cohort dividing line until a generation fully comes of age". He noted that the millennials' range beginning in 1982 would point to the next generation's window starting between 2000 and 2006.

In his 2008 book The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom, author Elwood Carlson defined this cohort as born between 1983–2001 based on the upswing in births after 1983 and finishing with the "political and social challenges" that occurred after the September 11 terrorist acts. In 2016, U.S Pirg described millennials as those born between 1983 and 2000. On the American television program Survivor, for their 33rd season, subtitled Millennials vs. Gen X, the "Millennial tribe" consisted of individuals born between 1984 and 1997.

Due to birth-year overlap between definitions of Generation X and millennials, and the tentative nature of generations, some individuals born in the late 1970s and early 1980s see themselves as being "between" the two generations. Names given to those born in the Generation X and Millennial cusp years include Xennials, Generation Catalano, and the Oregon Trail Generation.

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It's not based solely on pop culture and tech. This rapid growth won't be as closely examined in later years as you see it as it is happening.

Making generations 5-10 years seems pointless, might as just categorize years at that point.

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If you got hurt doing something, whatever was going on didn't stop so that everyone could run over and make a big deal out of it. You would just get a "it aint that bad. you'll be aight".

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