re: Why do we still use the term boomer? It’s gen x that most millennials hate

1983 here, people around my age got the best of both worlds. As young children it was basically still the 70's. We were free, rode bikes everywhere, pick up games, and the pace of life was simple. As we became teenagers people had "cable", then randomly the internet started popping up in houses. By the time we finished high school there was AOL and AIM. We got to use records / 8-tracks when at our grandparents, started with cassette tapes, and drove with CD players. We can adapt to new Tech b/c that's all we did. NES to Xbox.

Correct. Gen Xers have raised the blue haired freaks.

According to this chart, I snuck into Gen X between Boomer and Millennial

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Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.[1][2]

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"Generations" have mostly become "grey area" these days, ever since the invention of the Home Computer and how quick the landscape can change it has created a lot of "micro generations".

For instance people born after 1984 had computers in their homes by the time they were in Elementary School. By 2001 those kid's parents had iPhones (and the 2008 financial crisis right as they are entering School), by 2006 the proliferation of Social Media and Message Boards. <--- these examples are for things that came to prominence during their Elementary / Middle School Years

I've noticed a stark different between kids born after 9/11 and those born before, though I think it's the proliferation of the smartphone that has caused the difference and not 9/11 itself.

Alpha now has TikTok and other "short form media" as a "new way of consuming"

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obviously nothing magical happens at the cut off year.

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of course, but I think it has gotten progressively harder since the mid-80s to "define a generation" as well. Like, even Zoomers act like Boomers sometime, we are just all so connected these days

I can remember back in 2015 having a conversation with a family and the parents were complaining about "all Millennials" in front of their kids who were in their late-20s, early-30s at the time. I pointed out that their children were Millennials and all 5 of them were shocked, they seriously had never thought about the fact that their parents were complaining about their Generation, and the parents didn't even realize they were complaining about their own kids generation.

I have come to the realization that there is roughly the same amount of fricktardery in every generation from Boomer to present. Just different manifestations.

Greatest Generation was a different breed, and I can’t begin to judge the applicability of my theory on it.

(Prototypical Gen-X member here with late grandparents spanning to turn of century, so not far from Lost Generation.)

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gen x

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Raised more trans people than any other generation

Shouldn’t be surprised as their hero was the OG

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Why do we still use the term boomer? It’s gen x that most millennials hate

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Gen Xers don’t care.

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