Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
That's funny, cos that description is almost word for word the standard description of Gen X, apart from the bit at the end.
But hey, us GenX-ers are used to having our experiences misappropriated - when we're not being completely ignored/forgotten, of course. It's the other main generational cliche about us, apart from our endless snark and weary cynicism.
️@imalcolm @Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis exactly! Im a very early gen Xer and ive worked in IT since before i finished uni. No idea where this concept comes from (ie i know plenty of people from every generation who have no idea how to fully use their tech
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@imalcolm @Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis exactly! Im a very early gen Xer and ive worked in IT since before i finished uni. No idea where this concept comes from (ie i know plenty of people from every generation who have no idea how to fully use their tech
)@imalcolm @Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis (i may have misunderstood this post. I assumed it was a general fediverse question, as it got boosted into my feed, but i just noticed it came from a forkiverse post, so, as im not even there, my answer doesn’t count)
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis - I have it on good authority (@Natasha_Jay) that this is where "elder millennials, Gen Xers and boomers come to retire from the Internet" Well, if the shoe fits...
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@olliestudio45 @hosford42 Yep. Most of the people I know on here are 50+, the seniors corner of the internet with everyone who built and maintained it
@Bumblefish all hail the OGs
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis I honestly have very little idea what ranges of years these labels represent, and I'm not sure that stereotyping people is a meaningful or good practice in general. But I looked up what wikipedia suggested and put that in.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis Generation C64
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis just barely millennial, '82.
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@The_ERROR @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis Or maybe from another country
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis I really don't like these useless titles given to each generation. It's glorified marketing and the data is pointless, considering we're all human. Oh well, marketing ganna Market. Investors ganna invest. Just my 2 cents.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis @gdinwiddie why are Boomers and Gen Alpha in the same option? Feels like "oh, and I guess we shoukd include forget the outliers".
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis
Why would boomers be lumped in with generation alpha? There's a huge gap between us!I already feel weird enough being one of the few early adopters, extreme leftists, and technophiles of my generation. Now I'm being lumped in with 15-year-olds?
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis rad data
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis not all millennials - I'm GenX (early 70's) but am, slightly, unusual in that my dad wasn't a boomer (he was born during not after WWII) and my mom is similarly not really of the boomers (she was at Berkeley in the 60's - as was my dad - though my dad was in grad school and famously wore a suit & tie to Jefferson Airplane concerts) but also because my mom has been a programmer since the 1960's (and my grandfather wrote code though mostly designed satellites and planes) so really GenGeek
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@hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis ostensibly it's centered around us being born into a totally analog world that still played outside all day without supervision and movies and TV had production values still and there were Rolodexes, but then we were still young enough for the flip to a digital society to be able to implant itself in our lives in a way that the Lead Paint Generation and Gen X was just a little too old and inelastic for. Some of them could, but not overall.
@Clem In this part of the world is also witnessing shops without almost nothing on the shelves, partial food rationing, ques without end, only two tv channels one starting to send in the afternoons, university teacher working second job to be able to raise us. Feeling for many years second category and like a poor relative to the people from the West...
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@Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
That's funny, cos that description is almost word for word the standard description of Gen X, apart from the bit at the end.
But hey, us GenX-ers are used to having our experiences misappropriated - when we're not being completely ignored/forgotten, of course. It's the other main generational cliche about us, apart from our endless snark and weary cynicism.
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@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis I don't feel lucky. I feel like I'm watching all my hopes and dreams be torn down for good, just as they were about to finally be within reach. The stuff I worked toward my whole life... I worked toward it for nothing. All the angst, trying to be good enough for my parents and then my children, only to find out it was pointless because it doesn't matter what I do or did. The world has turned to a giant dumpster fire, and I don't know how we will ever climb out of it.
@hosford42 Hugs...
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@jwcph @thordis
"I don't know which of those is which" - that's because the Americans, as usual, came along and made up their own definition of Gen X well after the fact of it being a thing elsewhere in the world (U.K. and Australia at a minimum, perhaps elsewhere as well), which was like 15ish years later than the original phenomenon, and, again as usual,
American Imperialism has been winning. I've seen U.S. articles describe them precisely, but gave them some other, lesser-known nameThe US is good at that. Look up why the democrats are blue and republicans red. It's the total opposite to what the rest of the world would expect from those colors. I have been confused by this for soo long until I noai.duckduckgo.com'd it. (Ok, that doesn't roll of the tongue, does it?)
No, I have no idea what to choose here either, and I have read up on it several times after discussions.
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@thordis my brother was born in 1980, Gen X. I was born in 1981, Millennial.
@szczurtorebkowy@Tattie @thordis @szczurtorebkowy Both Xennials. (As am I)
I prefer “Oregon trail generation”, but that just redirects to the link below.
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@Tattie @thordis @szczurtorebkowy Both Xennials. (As am I)
I prefer “Oregon trail generation”, but that just redirects to the link below.
