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re: New Generation Proposed between Gen-X and Millenials
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:15 am to LNCHBOX
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:15 am to LNCHBOX
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I'll never understand how someone born in 84 is considered a millennial. People my age share almost nothing in common with the stereotypical millennial.
I would have to agree.
Just so much happened when people of the mid and early 1980s came of age. Growing up just 5-10 years later is a whole different ball game.
Not better, not worse....but different.
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Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:16 am to LucasP
You speak the truth. Its funny and sad to see how worked up people get about which generation they belong to.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:16 am to BRIllini07
I was born in 85. My bros were born in the mid 90s. You can't equate our experiences growing up.
I mean, I just got a Snapchat and had to ask one for help to use it.
I mean, I just got a Snapchat and had to ask one for help to use it.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:16 am to BRIllini07
What the hell is wrong with eating avocados?
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:19 am to Captain_Morgan
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What the hell is wrong with eating avocados?
Nothing. You just don't need to make a show about it or tell the world every time you eat one.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:22 am to Displaced
Lazy arse media mostly. The generations are well defined by birth rate/population growth:
Baby boom: 1946 - 64, 72 million born
Gen X: 1965 - 1978, birth control pill introduced in 1964
Gen Y / MTV Generation: 1978 - 1990, 75 million born
Millennials: Birth rate drops dramatically beginning in 1990, and drops below replacement rate bottoming out in 1992.
Millennials are people ~27 and under.
We're going to have some pretty dire social and economic consequences in the near future because of these demographic trends, but that's another thread.
Baby boom: 1946 - 64, 72 million born
Gen X: 1965 - 1978, birth control pill introduced in 1964
Gen Y / MTV Generation: 1978 - 1990, 75 million born
Millennials: Birth rate drops dramatically beginning in 1990, and drops below replacement rate bottoming out in 1992.
Millennials are people ~27 and under.
We're going to have some pretty dire social and economic consequences in the near future because of these demographic trends, but that's another thread.
This post was edited on 6/30/17 at 10:26 am
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:22 am to BRIllini07
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1977-1983
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Oregon Trail Generation
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didn’t get your first mobile phone until your late teens or 20s, and it was a brick
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You loved Nirvana — but were too young to ever see them live
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You made mix tapes on cassettes, and you owned a walkman
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analog childhood, digital adulthood
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don’t feel as though they fit the avocado-eating, Snapchat-loving mould of the endlessly dissected generation
I guess I'm in...Xennial right here...1981
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:39 am to BRIllini07
Born in '78. Could not give a frick less what generation I am supposedly a part of. But, the best way I have heard to describe people in my general age range is this: we grew up around computers. We are completely comfortable with them. We were there for the widespread adoption of the internet and are comfortable with that too. But social media... the point is lost on us.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 10:45 am to LNCHBOX
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People my age share almost nothing in common with the stereotypical millennial.
nothing more millennial than making up random sub-categories of society so you can fit yourself into a tight little box.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 11:01 am to Dire Wolf
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nothing more millennial than making up random sub-categories of society so you can fit yourself into a tight little box.
BS...its about not trying to be lumped in with people that we don't relate to as being the same...my brother...born when I was 10 years old and I have nothing...absolutely nothing in common...and its all about technology and his attitude towards work....
actually, I think that is a huge piece that nobody has mentioned here or in that article...the "Xennials" have a different work ethic...and reasons for why they work like they do than millenials....also...
its my generation in large part that went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000's and are now all fricked up because of it...
I personally think its good that there is a recognition that this Millenial generation is too vast and that too many things happened around the new century that separates the "xennials" from the "millenials"
Posted on 6/30/17 at 11:05 am to Dire Wolf
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nothing more millennial than making up random sub-categories of society so you can fit yourself into a tight little box.
Are you implying that I'm trying to do that?
Posted on 6/30/17 at 11:10 am to GoIrish02
Wrong, millennials is another word for Gen y
Posted on 6/30/17 at 11:12 am to BRIllini07
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So....I guess I'm a Xennial now?
Me too. Works for me I guess.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 11:13 am to BRIllini07
84, 85 ish belong in there too
Posted on 6/30/17 at 12:02 pm to BRIllini07
Basically 80s babies were caught in the middle. Yes people had cell phones and internet, but it wasn't affordable for everyone. Yes schools had computers, but not like they do today.
Even thinking about LSU. Getting off the old call in for registration to getting paws. That transition happened with 80s babies in college.
Cursive was taught to us and we were told we would have to write papers in college and use it in the work force. You get to college and they won't even accept work that's not typed.
Even thinking about LSU. Getting off the old call in for registration to getting paws. That transition happened with 80s babies in college.
Cursive was taught to us and we were told we would have to write papers in college and use it in the work force. You get to college and they won't even accept work that's not typed.
This post was edited on 6/30/17 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 6/30/17 at 3:15 pm to BRIllini07
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they don’t feel as though they fit the avocado-eating, Snapchat-loving mould of the endlessly dissected generation
let's slow down
Posted on 6/30/17 at 3:25 pm to member12
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Being born from the early to mid 1980's puts you into the workforce just as the Great Recession hit. You would be old enough to understand what was going on on 9/11. You may have fought in the Middle East. Facebook wasn't prolific until 2004/2005. Smart Phones not until 2007 after this generation was well into their 20s.
Nailed it. I remember sitting in a grad school class and one of my classmates had just got a camera phone. This would have been late 2003/early 2004. 9/11 happened when we were in college. My first smartphone was after my daughter was born in 2008.
And the recession stuff is key. Seems like the folks just a few years older than myself were not nearly as affected by it. Being 2-4 years out of school meant you were still low level and expendable. Where if you had been there 6+ years you had job security. At least in professional settings.
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