Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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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?
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@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?
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@thordis standard issue millennial
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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?
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@thordis Millenial, born 1990
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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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?
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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?
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@thordis GenZ 🫡
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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FYI: The correct spelling is "millennial", not "millenial". You've left out one of the "n". -
@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.
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @marjolica@social.linux.pizza @thordis@theforkiverse.com I'm right on the border between millenial and gen Z depending on who you ask
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guess you're looking for the term Gen Y oO
@fravul
Yes!
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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @marjolica@social.linux.pizza @thordis@theforkiverse.com I'm right on the border between millenial and gen Z depending on who you ask
@darkphoenix @marjolica @thordis i consider myself gen x more than I do a millennial. I'd use the term xenial, if it didn't annoy me so much.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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Generation Jones! (We have been wrongly grouped at the tail end of the Boomers)
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@david_kehm @thordis
Not!
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@darkphoenix @marjolica @thordis i consider myself gen x more than I do a millennial. I'd use the term xenial, if it didn't annoy me so much.
@quixoticgeek @darkphoenix @marjolica @thordis I've been called* "geriatric millennial" so I naturally identify as gen x out of spite, mostly.
*not me, but the people born in my year, etc etc.
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Ask #OldPeopleOfMastodon and see how many boomers there are! -
@thordis Fediverse DOES have a network of smaller Gen Z servers
but they tend to be Queer or Furry focused. and occasionally Game Development
they are also quite insular for valid reasons, and I'm certainly not going to list a bunch so everyone can go bother their users
but they are with us. you just need to move in the correct circles and they will pop up to make you feel ancient
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@david_megginson @thordis It's strange, I remember being told the Beatles broke up by my father. I can even remember the expression he used!
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@thordis
I keep getting surprised when I notice yet another co-cohort or older human. Not that one always can tell, but on previous social media I kept getting the impression that most of the folk I knew were a couple of decades younger.@hypostase @thordis Boomer here
