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re: What is the Line of Demarcation between Generation X / Millennials ?
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:10 am to S
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:10 am to S
I always felt you can't put an exact year to start and stop the groups. But Demographers want to so it will make their studies nice and tidy. I seem to remember it use to be that Gen X was the children of people wedged between the WW2 and Baby Boomers. In other words, their parents were children during WW2, but were not Baby Boomers. They were a smaller group than either and kinda lost between the two, hence the term Gen X.
The children of the Baby Boomers use to be called Gen Y, then you have the Millennials. Somewhere along the way, they decided to get rid of the Gen Y term and put the group into either Gen X or Mill.
The children of the Baby Boomers use to be called Gen Y, then you have the Millennials. Somewhere along the way, they decided to get rid of the Gen Y term and put the group into either Gen X or Mill.
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Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:10 am to SlowFlowPro
Born in 80. It will be a cold day in he before I call myself a millennial
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:14 am to SlowFlowPro
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each successive generation is going to get smaller and smaller and smaller. 20 years is WAY too big
Agreed. People born in 1987 and 1997 have huge huge differences in time when they grew up. People who were born in the late 80s and early 90s knew a time of innocence where the world wasn't completely consumed by fear. 1997 though have always been connected to the world of networking and of fear. There is a massive difference between my generation and their generation when we were in elementary and high school.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:25 am to SlowFlowPro
the internet/windows 95 
i see kids at my old high school have school district issued ipads to go along with their smartphones
i remember smuggling my flip phone to school just in case shawdy chirp me
i see kids at my old high school have school district issued ipads to go along with their smartphones
i remember smuggling my flip phone to school just in case shawdy chirp me
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:26 am to anc
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My line of demarcation has always been November 3, 1982. A huge rise in the stock market that day. The Carter-era recession was declared over. And Michael Jackson released Thriller a couple weeks later, starting the era of celebrity worship that has led to Kardashians being famous.
David Lee Roth left VanHalen in 85, clearly demarcating the end of GenX.
Everything went to shite after that, Sammy Hagar and Millennials.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:28 am to S
84, so that makes me gen X and 9/11 
My motto is work harder play hardest, so whatever that means
My motto is work harder play hardest, so whatever that means
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:49 am to S
1980 here....I definitely think I fit more into the Xers group than the Millennials.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 11:52 am to GeauxColonels
82 here but I fit in best with the greatest generation.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:01 pm to genro
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'86 but more of an X-er too. 3 older siblings
Same here. Grew up listening to whatever my older siblings listened to, so no surprise I'm partial to Gen x music.
My only real millennial tendency is watching people play games on youtube
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:34 pm to S
I would say if you were the first born child from 1986-2002 you are a millenial.
Anyone who has lived a substantial amount of time before the major breakthroughs (the internet, cell phones, satellite TV, etc) became commonplace, is a Gen-Xer. About 1970-1985 would be a good time frame for Gen-Xers.
Anything after 2002, you are Generation Me. God have mercy on their souls.
Anyone who has lived a substantial amount of time before the major breakthroughs (the internet, cell phones, satellite TV, etc) became commonplace, is a Gen-Xer. About 1970-1985 would be a good time frame for Gen-Xers.
Anything after 2002, you are Generation Me. God have mercy on their souls.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:36 pm to Phil A Sheo
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Posted by Phil A Sheo Born 1980.. I don't recognize Millenial's as being part of my generation
Same here. I always thought I was Gen X anyway.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:37 pm to Darkknight
RIP Gen Y
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:37 pm to S
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What is the Line of Demarcation between Generation X / Millennials ?
Skinny jeans
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:54 pm to S
I think 1990 and younger are absolutely millennials. As for the 5-8 years that is up for debate, I think it's based on the individual and their upbringing.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:56 pm to S
Oh look, another thread bashing millenials. Let's not forget that Gen-Xers were once called "slackers"
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:59 pm to S
Born in 1979 and I take offense whenever anyone labels me a Millennial.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:08 pm to Superior Pariah
Seems like no one wants to be a Millennial
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:08 pm to chickman1313
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i was born in 83, and i think there is a major difference between myself and someone born in 87. They had cell phones all throughout high school, we had them, but werent texting much, usually borrowing the parents phones and stuff. Basically i think the line is when high schoolers started using cell phones for everything, and in my estimation, thats people born in 87 or so.
I can agree with that. I was born in 81 and my wife in 83. We've noticed that the folks born around 87-88 and on have a whole different mindset, as a group. Her brother was born in 88. All of his friends and he just have this Millenial POS attitude. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 17, almost 18. It was because I was going to be going off to college in a year and my parents wanted me to prove I was responsible with it. That 87-88 group had them at 13 and 14, all through HS, texting/sexting, and had smartphones in college. I didn't have my first smartphone until my daughter was a year old, and I was 28.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:10 pm to TU Rob
You wish you had a cell phone to sext in high school. Don't be jealous.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:11 pm to chickman1313
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i was born in 83, and i think there is a major difference between myself and someone born in 87.
Same here.
quote:Agree.
Basically i think the line is when high schoolers started using cell phones for everything, and in my estimation, thats people born in 87 or so.
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