Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

Pterry

@Viss @thordis depends in the country I'd guess, and the again there's a difference between rural and urban areas. Before the internet was widely available, everything was a lot less homogenous. (I'm going with Xennial atm.)

Kevin Granade

@PermaSolarPotter @david_kehm @thordis I and the people I know don't accept gen X as an identity. There was a rationale for commenting on the baby boomer generation as a distinct thing, but gen X and later are arbitrary, and regardless using it as an identity instead of discussion of the environment the group experienced is nonsense.
The manufactured history of labeling generations seems to be taking hold now and people are identifying themselves and others with their generation.

ShadSterling

@contrasocial @ReggieHere @hajni @thordis I wonder if Gen X is ignored because, coming after boomers, thy didn’t get the benefits and don’t get the blame, but being immediately after they had it good enough that they don’t complain about everything getting dragged away by the boomers, but millennials got so much less they could see sooner how bad it was headed for

Daniel Lakeland

@urbanfoxe
Man I felt that for real for real.
@hajni @thordis

Quixoticgeek

@marjolica @thordis there's no one definitive definition. I've also seen

1946-1964 - baby boomers
1965-1984 - gen x
1985-2005 - millennials

Etc... as that way each generation is exactly 20 years.

The origin stories podcast had an episode last week called "boomers" which talks about the various ways the generations can be defined.

Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦

@thordis Not sure about your server but the fediverse as a whole has leaned Gen X the last few years. Perhaps you'll start changing that.

caminaensilencio

@szczurtorebkowy Xennial too ️

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@thordis too old to be gen z, too young to be millenial

Captain Button

@thordis

Based on the personality descriptions I read in Newsweek* a few decades back, my older siblings are clearly Boomers, while I am a leading edge X'er.

* Or a similar magazine.

Ton Zijlstra

@thordis none of us are marketing shorthand labels here, no.

C. R. Collins 🌳 🐸

@quixoticgeek

I prefer Generation Jones for us later born Boomers.

@marjolica @thordis

EarthMomma

@thordis

I am 68 and in my day and age we did not have these labels to identify you by age so I m NONE OF THIS.

You can group me into some mass group because of my age but I am neurodivergent so the label DOES NOT FIT.

If you want ot know what age we are, I am 68

Ian K Tindale

@marjolica @thordis this must be a regional or foreign assessment of things. Even into the early 60s there was rationing and food shortages, everything was in black and white, people were wearing ex-forces demob clothing. Houses were missing and bomb craters were in every street. It certainly wasn’t a time of ‘boom’. It’d be a significant time before any rebuilding could be afforded and the onset of ‘swinging London’ in the late 60s was more a public relations effort than anyone’s actual reality. Maybe in other countries it was, but certainly not in the real world of post-war Britain.

ts 🚇

@thordis I'm curious to know (if we can know) which generation is the most privacy-concerned and less likely to answer the poll

Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦

@Datterich @catsalad @thordis @IanAMartin

Generation Y is what they called Millennials before they called them Millennials

MarjorieR

@u0421793 @thordis but there was a baby boom after WW2 ended.
Lots of people, who had interrupted family life because of the war married or just reunited and had children so the birth rate rocketed. Hence the term Baby Boomer.
I'm one of those children.

Reg

@ShadSterling

Could be. Gen X were mostly too young to vote against the new wave of neoliberalism in the 80s, but still hung onto some of the benefits before they were completely stripped away for the Millennials.

Gen X is also much smaller than both the Boomer and Millennial generations so that might be a factor.

@contrasocial @hajni @thordis

Clem Fandango

@szczurtorebkowy @thordis also seen us called "the lucky ones" and "the Oregon Trail Generation"

Expert Plus 🍀🔱

I am one of 10%.

MeanderingOK

@ShadSterling @contrasocial @ReggieHere @hajni @thordis
Gen X is a pretty small group comparatively. It was the effect of the latter Vietnam era combined with more mothers joining the workforce. We were truly the latchkey generation. There have been studies attributing the crime dip of the early to mid 1990s to Gen X being so much smaller than the other gens during the prime "crime" ages. I still know of some paying off their student debt, too, sadly. We're an odd group, overall!