Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@marjolica @thordis there's no one definitive definition. I've also seen
1946-1964 - baby boomers
1965-1984 - gen x
1985-2005 - millennialsEtc... 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.
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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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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
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@thordis for those that don't know what the generation cut dates are I found this:
Generation Birth Year
Generation Alpha 2013–2025
Generation Z 1997–2012
Millennials (Gen Y) 1981–1996
Generation X 1965–1980
Baby Boomers 1946–1964
Silent Generation 1928–1945
Greatest Generation 1901–1927However pooling Boomers and Alphas as in the questionnaire doesn't make much sense though.
@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.
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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 I'm curious to know (if we can know) which generation is the most privacy-concerned and less likely to answer the poll
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@catsalad @thordis @IanAMartin And Gen Y? Is that some abbreviation of Generation Why?
@Datterich @catsalad @thordis @IanAMartin
Generation Y is what they called Millennials before they called them Millennials
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@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.
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@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
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.
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@thordis Xennial here - on the cusp of millenials and gen X
@szczurtorebkowy @thordis also seen us called "the lucky ones" and "the Oregon Trail Generation"
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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:
I am one of 10%.
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@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
@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! -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis I choose boomer, but I could also be genX Depending on where you put the cutoff.
It's a bit ridiculous calling myself a "boomer" given that I was still in kindergarten when the Beatles broke up and I share none of their growing-up experiences, but marketers love oversimplifying things.
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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 1984 here
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@marjolica @thordis I bet more babies were born during or shortly after the early 70s nightly power cuts
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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 standard issue millennial
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@thordis I choose boomer, but I could also be genX Depending on where you put the cutoff.
It's a bit ridiculous calling myself a "boomer" given that I was still in kindergarten when the Beatles broke up and I share none of their growing-up experiences, but marketers love oversimplifying things.
Yeah the boomer designation really covers two generations with two very different life experiences. The ones at the older end are old enough to be parents of those of us at the younger end, and I don't relate to them/their experiences at all.
We are actually "Jonesers" or "Generation Jones": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
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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 Millenial, born 1990
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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
I picked Gen X, but really I'm one of those middling Oregon Trail people who fits cleanly in neither the X nor the Millennial box. Ultimately I have decided that the dividing line should be century of high school graduation, which is why I choose as I did. -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
Technically Xennial cuz I cannot relate to 90% of the supposed suburban comfort of Gen X.
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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 GenZ 🫡
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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
FYI: The correct spelling is "millennial", not "millenial". You've left out one of the "n".
