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re: Snapchat? No thanks; I'm an Old Millennial
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:18 am to Wally Sparks
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:18 am to Wally Sparks
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who were born around 1988 or earlier, really have lived substantively different lives than Young Millennials, who were born around 1989 or later
Oh yeah for sure. That one year between 1988 and 1989 was insane.
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Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:19 am to Wally Sparks
Sounds like the author doesn't "identify" as a millennial despite being born that way... sounds familiar.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:19 am to RichardParker
What up RP??
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:21 am to Box Geauxrilla
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Oh yeah for sure. That one year between 1988 and 1989 was insane.
The cutoff will always be kind of arbitrary. But there is probably a pretty significant difference between how an 11-12 year old experienced 9/11 and how a 14 year old HS freshman did.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:22 am to Pettifogger
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It's honestly really stupid and annoying that someone who is 30-35 is a millennial today.
Most of us grew up without (at least partially) internet access, remember life before cell phones, remember reliance on land lines, remember manual roll down windows in cars, etc. We were old enough to appreciate the differences in pre and post 9/11 America.
Kids in college today are probably pretty heavily indoctrinated with safe spaces and choosing your gender from a list of 800. While my age group and those before us probably helped that develop, that was not our experience.
Yea, 9/11 and the wars are probably even more momentous and a generation divide than smart phones - probably on par with the recession.
Both wars were fought, by and large, by the older Millennials. The oldest of them were around 20 when the planes hit the towers and the youngest of them turned 18 right before the Surge in Iraq and were in their early 20s during the Afghan Surge. That's the sweet spot, and the great majority of those who fought and died were born between 1981 and 1988.
This post was edited on 5/2/17 at 10:24 am
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:22 am to Pettifogger
shite I didnt realize till now I was 15 when 9/11 happened 
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:24 am to Wally Sparks
I was born in 91, with two older brothers both born in the 80's. I feel like we have very little in common with my generation due in part to our rural upbringing. We didn't have high speed internet until like 2005, and never got wifi until 2010. We played outside. We wandered around the woods. We played pickup baseball with the neighborhood kids like in the sandlot. It's like everyone else my age was raised on a different planet.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:26 am to Wally Sparks
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Snapchat? No thanks; I'm an Old Millennial
How she gonna snapchat you that pussy? Why don't you want it to go down in the dm?
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:27 am to AbuTheMonkey
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Both wars were fought, by and large, by the older Millennials. The oldest of them were around 20 when the planes hit the towers and the youngest of them turned 18 right before the Surge in Iraq and were in their early 20s during the Afghan Surge. That's the sweet spot, and the great majority of those who fought and died were born between 1981 and 1988.
Even for those of us who didn't serve, I think we have a different experience from those who grew up in an era of the US being at war to some extent.
I remember having patriotic days at school and Gulf War trading cards. But I don't remember much about the war itself (at least from personal recollection).
Fast forward to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and we're 18-19 years old, and I imagine a lot of people are like me in that if they weren't in the military, they remember friends enlisting or reservists deploying. At the time, it was a weird thing, we hadn't seen something like that as semi-mature adults.
But if you were born in 1990, you grew up in an era where the world may not have been at war, but the concept of deployments and soldiers fighting/dying abroad was "normal"
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:31 am to Wally Sparks
i've tried to argue this for years
with how fast technology is changing and how impactful each new generation of tech has on social interaction, the concept of "generations" is going to be compressed greatly. what once spanned 20-ish years is now going to be broken down in section of 5 years (and possibly less, eventually)
it's impossible for "older" generations, as a group, to adapt to the changing tech. since the tech is not a major factor in our developmental years (especially socially), it will never be the same to us as it is to the younger generation who uses it during this time. it's like comedy...your comic palate is often developed at a certain time and people older and younger than you won't appreciate the movies you find humorous
with how fast technology is changing and how impactful each new generation of tech has on social interaction, the concept of "generations" is going to be compressed greatly. what once spanned 20-ish years is now going to be broken down in section of 5 years (and possibly less, eventually)
it's impossible for "older" generations, as a group, to adapt to the changing tech. since the tech is not a major factor in our developmental years (especially socially), it will never be the same to us as it is to the younger generation who uses it during this time. it's like comedy...your comic palate is often developed at a certain time and people older and younger than you won't appreciate the movies you find humorous
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:33 am to kingbob
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I was born in 91, with two older brothers both born in the 80's. I feel like we have very little in common with my generation due in part to our rural upbringing. We didn't have high speed internet until like 2005, and never got wifi until 2010. We played outside. We wandered around the woods. We played pickup baseball with the neighborhood kids like in the sandlot. It's like everyone else my age was raised on a different planet.
I understand the sentiment you are going for here, but 9/11 happened when you were 10. At 10, there is really know way to comprehend the world you live in versus someone who was born in 83 and who was a Freshman in college at that time.
I "member" what this country was like before then, and it such a different world than what followed.
I think this huge change in national culture plus widespread smartphone technology (when I joined the workforce the baddest mfers had blackberries) that younger millennials grew up with is a legit divide that doesn't exist within say the GenX group.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:33 am to SlowFlowPro
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it's like comedy...your comic palate is often developed at a certain time and people older and younger than you won't appreciate the movies you find humorous
This is true, I can watch Trailer Park Boys seasons 1-11 over and over but cant make it 5 minutes into an amy moomer special.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:38 am to LSU_postman
I remember pre 9/11 because I travelled a lot as a kid. I remembered everyone suddenly becoming terrified of everything. While I didn't quite understand the political ramifications right away, it didn't take long. By the Iraq War, I started to get it.
As far as war, my cousins fought in Bosnia, flying helicopters, so it was never a foreign concept.
As far as war, my cousins fought in Bosnia, flying helicopters, so it was never a foreign concept.
This post was edited on 5/2/17 at 10:39 am
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:39 am to SlowFlowPro
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it's impossible for "older" generations, as a group, to adapt to the changing tech.
Not just adapting, but living your life so caught up in a digital world is not appealing to me even as a millenial.
Im good with twitter and TD.com. But seriously frick snapchat and tender and all those romantic hookup apps.. My Generation didnt even start sexting until after 7pm Monday-THursday because THAT WAS FREE NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS...No one I grew up with texted with a chick for a week until they finally had enough nerve to call them..That shite would get you laughed at.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:40 am to LSU_postman
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I understand the sentiment you are going for here, but 9/11 happened when you were 10. At 10, there is really know way to comprehend the world you live in versus someone who was born in 83 and who was a Freshman in college at that time.
I "member" what this country was like before then, and it such a different world than what followed.
I think this huge change in national culture plus widespread smartphone technology (when I joined the workforce the baddest mfers had blackberries) that younger millennials grew up with is a legit divide that doesn't exist within say the GenX group.
I can buy the 9/11 thing, but the smartphone "divide" would actually be later and cause a third subset. I was born in 1991, didn't have a cellphone until I was 16 and driving, and didn't have a blackberry until I was in college and used it almost exclusively for calls, texts, and email. That's a lot different than what my siblings experienced (born in 1994 and 1996) with iPhones in high school. shite, my sister born in 1996 barely remembers 9/11 even happening, speaking of that aspect.
This post was edited on 5/2/17 at 10:46 am
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:41 am to kingbob
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I remember pre 9/11 because I travelled a lot as a kid. I remembered everyone suddenly becoming terrified of everything. While I didn't quite understand the political ramifications right away, it didn't take long. By the Iraq War, I started to get it.
I remember everyone on the right and left side of the spectrum become intensely patriotic and seeing our country come together nationally as one people united. It was everywhere you turned . Internet and MSM..It was glorious.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:41 am to 50_Tiger
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This is true, I can watch Trailer Park Boys seasons 1-11 over and over but cant make it 5 minutes into an amy moomer special.
No one really finds her funny. People only laugh because they've been told how amazing and funny she is. She's like the Nickelback of comedy. Marketed and shoved down the throats of consumers who don't really want it.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:42 am to LSU_postman
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7pm Monday-THursday because THAT WAS FREE NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS
Those were the days
Everybody had the same Nokia phone... with the Game Boy green screen
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:43 am to logjamming
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The dividing line for the millennial generation is whether or not you HAD to have a .edu college email address to sign up for Facebook.
I remember the first time I got a friend request from someone not in college. It was from a friend's younger sister and she was a freshman in high school at the time. We weren't really even real-life friends, so I didn't understand it at the time
. Social media for me kinda went downhill from there. I rarely check Facebook and I know very little about Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram or whatever else is available out there. I'm fine with this Old Millenial term.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:43 am to TheArrogantCorndog
I was all about playing Snake!
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