Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis Xennial here - on the cusp of millenials and gen X
@szczurtorebkowy @thordis Xennial
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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 @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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@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 @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.
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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 No idea (and don't care), born in '65.
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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.
@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis Sorry, that was really effing gloomy and I shouldn't drag other people down with that talk.
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@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.@kevingranade @PermaSolarPotter @thordis
"I and the people I know don't accept gen X as an identity."
This is the most #GenX statement I have read so far. Does a great job of describing how GenX approaches identity.
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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 1964 In the House! Boomers rule.
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@thordis Xennial here - on the cusp of millenials and gen X
@szczurtorebkowy @thordis me too
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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 American do these generational groups don't apply
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@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis Sorry, that was really effing gloomy and I shouldn't drag other people down with that talk.
heads up mate! better days will come. you're not alone 🫂
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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 Late Gen X. One year later born and I'd have been a millennial.
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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 @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis it's not all your fault, you guys got the tail end of the lead paint just like mommy and daddy, they just had to breathe it at the same time from leaded gasoline fumes
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@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis how are we lucky?
@hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis honestly I think naming generations in a fun and easily mocked way is like the 2-party system in the US, if you're playing the game you lose, the only winners are the ones controlling the refs
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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 a Xennial. Youngest Gen X or oldest Millenial.
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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 @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis If it works for you that's grand, but do note I'm the most Gen Xy GenX you can get (born in '73 so right in the middle), and at age 20 I was busy writing web sites and fiddling with all the early 90s 32 bit protected mode operating systems..
(and playing DOOM, naturally).
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@Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis If it works for you that's grand, but do note I'm the most Gen Xy GenX you can get (born in '73 so right in the middle), and at age 20 I was busy writing web sites and fiddling with all the early 90s 32 bit protected mode operating systems..
(and playing DOOM, naturally).
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@Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis It was a good time to be 20, mostly! Everything was mostly not too corporate (well, definitely not the web), and operating systems were very much still wildly experimental.
Plus computing for the average person went from 16 colours, to 256 colours, to true colour and 3D in less than 8 years
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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 wish this poll had a Xennial option. I find these kinds of tech environments skew towards us as the tech boom began during our adolescence / young adulthood.I may be a Millennial, but I'm on the cusp. I have a lot in common with young Gen X.
