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re: Is Generation X truly the Lost Generation?
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:46 am to SuperSaint
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:46 am to SuperSaint
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Born in '82 I'm a Xer or Mille??? Tia
I think this is on the border, if you were wealthier probably closer to millennial, otherwise late Gen-X.
At your age it was still possible to go through high school without ever owning a cell phone (but it's close), and the internet was still in it's dial up stages so except for some AOL and Yahoo chat type stuff you had most of your social development outside of the presence of social media.
A lot of the media scare stuff from the early 80's might have caused your parents to keep a closer tab on you than they did us when you were young, but there wasn't much they can do once you started going to school. They, for instance, couldn't e-mail your teachers asking about a test grade or text you to see if lunch is ok.
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Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:54 am to BRIllini07
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At your age it was still possible to go through high school without ever owning a cell phone (but it's close
I was born in '81 and didn't have a cell phone until junior year of college. I did have a beeper in high school and my own land line at my parents!
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:57 am to buffbraz
I was born in 87 and didn't get a cell phone until I started driving, and it was for
Emergencies only with limited minutes and no texting. And this was common amongst my peers
Emergencies only with limited minutes and no texting. And this was common amongst my peers
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:05 am to lsupride87
Is 1980 generation x? My brother was born in 1968 and we have little in common. I feel closer to Generation Y.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:06 am to ThatMakesSense
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Nah. I was born in '86. Parents didn't give a hoot what I was doing, so long as I made it to school and didn't get arrested.
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I actually moved out of the house before I had my first cell phone.
All this generational theory stuff is just analysis of broad groups of people, where if you're analyzing a large range of people they will be accurate, but no one case probably fits the textbook exactly as written.
Although being born in '86 (HS class of '04?) that does feel a little young to have made it out of high school and moved out without a cell phone. My wife was born in '85 and got her first cell phone Jr. year of HS ('01?), and was among the last in her class to get one (per her recollection, but she may be exaggerating), and she comes from a lower middle class area.
Either way, welcome to Gen-X! You looks like you've had to raise yourself enough to make it into the club as an honorary member.
I'll also add, I grew up near Chicago and now live in Louisiana - I think Southern kids kept their independence a little longer than the Northern kids did.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:19 am to weagle99
Just an observation but I've noticed millennials and boomers both seem to post more inflammatory shite(political personal, etc..) on social media than gen Xers.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:26 am to SuperSaint
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you old bastads, let's fist fight
You do not want none. We have old man strength at this point. You pretty much have to kill us, because we live with so much pain now you can't hurt us.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:38 am to Smoke Ring
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And it describes millennials as the modern cycle of The Greatest Generation
The generations are cyclical, however Z will be aligned with the Greatest Generation.
Gen Z is really going to shake up the landscape and change the US as we know it today. The top age is low 20s now, so the next decade will be vary transitional. Gen Z is going to be lean right and not embrace the PC culture. You can see that now in our schools. Youth revolts against norms and PC crowd is currently in power.
They are frugal with many seeing their parents lose jobs during the recession. Gen Z grew up in a domestically violent world with 9/11 and many school shootings. The first 100% connected generation is also embracing the physical world for entertainment and shopping and will transform/destroy social media as we know it today.
Good times ahead for us Gen Xs, we get the last laugh watching Gen Y being dismantled before we die.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:40 am to lsupride87
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I was born in 87 and didn't get a cell phone until I started driving, and it was for Emergencies only with limited minutes and no texting. And this was common amongst my peers
But that's the cultural shift right? When you started driving the expectation was during an emergency you had the option of calling for help.
When us older types started driving, even in the event of an emergency, we were stuck in the situation until we got ourselves out of it. For the vast majority of us it wasn't a huge deal, but there's a subtle difference between calling someone on your cell phone when your car breaks down and going door to door ringing doorbells of strangers' houses at 10PM asking to borrow the phone (or attempting to fix whatever it was, as best you could, sans dad's advice on the side of the road).
It's not a good vs. bad thing really, I wouldn't drive now without a cell phone, because why would I? Cell phones are great things.
(I was born in '77, but due to spending 7 years in the Navy I went to HS as a Gen-X and went to college as a Millenial, so that's another reason why this topic interests me a great deal. It felt clear to me at the time as a 25year old freshmen that my classmates weren't just 7 years younger than me, but that the culture had changes as well in those 7 years - again though, this is outside Chicago).
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:47 am to BRIllini07
quote:Well yeh, because the technology was available. If it was available earlier even you John Wayne tough gen xers would have had them.....
But that's the cultural shift right? When you started driving the expectation was during an emergency you had the option of calling for help.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:54 am to weagle99
Gen X is the sweet spot of modern generations. Raised before smartphones/internet. Enjoying the benefits now but not tethered to it.
We can go out for dinner or a ballgame and leave our phone at home.
Further, the 80's was the best decade to grow up in by almost any metric.
We can go out for dinner or a ballgame and leave our phone at home.
Further, the 80's was the best decade to grow up in by almost any metric.
This post was edited on 6/15/17 at 9:59 am
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:01 am to TejasHorn
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Gen X is the sweet spot of modern generations. Raised before smartphones/internet. Enjoying the benefits now but not tethered to it.
We can go out for dinner or a ballgame and leave our phone at home.
Further, the 80's was the best decade to grow up in by almost any metric.
Damn skippy.
I just wish we didn't have to deal with the nutcase boomers and crybaby millenials.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 11:20 am to lsupride87
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Well yeh, because the technology was available. If it was available earlier even you John Wayne tough gen xers would have had them.....
Isn't that exactly what I said later in the post?
Boomers could have a field day with us too, my dad's friends used to make fun of us for being pansies because we drove mid-80's Cutlass Supremes and hand-me-down Japanese imports, while they spent their late teens enjoying muscle cars (this was at least the dynamic in the suburbs of Chicago).
My dad is still proud of his first car and it's genuinely a highlight of his youth (1967 Plymouth GTX that he bought new as a 17 year old HS dropout). Thinking back to my early driving days, no one in America today is opening up a garage door saying "Look at that son, a vintage mint condition 1986 Mazda 626. If you play your cards right, this could be yours someday! Go ahead, start it up, listen to high pitched whine"
Posted on 6/15/17 at 11:25 am to northshorebamaman
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Thought we would die in nuclear holocaust
I actually took a class on this at LSU. Know way too much about MIRVs now.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 11:29 am to lsupride87
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I was born in 87 and didn't get a cell phone until I started driving,
So, what, 16?
Posted on 6/15/17 at 1:30 pm to TejasHorn
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Further, the 80's was the best decade to grow up in by almost any metric.
This is so true for white heterosexual christian males, it was our decade.
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