If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

These aren't real generation Xers.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

These aren't real generation Xers.

O.k. but the same could be said for a person who was 10 (born 75) when the Breakfast Club came out. I was around 10 when Saturday Night Fever came out and that was most definitely before my time.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Gen x includes babies born in 1980 and 81, so not this.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

Wikipedia lists Gen X as early to mid 60's to early 80's. I agree that the dividing line seems to be fairly fuzzy depending on which source you are looking at.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Boomers were the Woodstock generation. Not people who were 5 when Woodstock happened. People born in 64 cared more about Michael Jackson than the Beetles.

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Boomer. No question.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Ok we get that you're a Millenial who wishes you were a Generation Xer. Can't blame you for that. But just accept the fact that Xers include those who were in HS in the early 80's and not those who were born in 1981.

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OMG. That’s twice in one thread! It’s The Beatles, people. What generation are you?

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Ok we get that you're a Millenial who wishes you were a Generation Xer. Can't blame you for that. But just accept the fact that Xers include those who were in HS in the early 80's and not those who were born in 1981.

I agree with that. I think that early/mid 60's can be part of Gen X. People born in 1980/1981 graduated HS in '98/'99 - which was well past the Breakfast Club/Saint Elmo's Fire era.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Boomers were the Woodstock generation. Not people who were 5 when Woodstock happened. People born in 64 cared more about Michael Jackson than the Beetles.

It isn’t defined by events per se. The post war baby boom, i.e., large numbers of babies being born, lasted until the mid sixties. Gen x was originally known as the baby bust, because the birth rate dropped substantially, and millennials as the second baby boom.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Ok we get that you're a Millenial who wishes you were a Generation Xer. Can't blame you for that. But just accept the fact that Xers include those who were in HS in the early 80's and not those who were born in 1981.

I agree with that. I think that early/mid 60's can be part of Gen X. People born in 1980/1981 graduated HS in '98/'99 - which was well past the Breakfast Club/Saint Elmo's Fire era.

Saint Elmo’s Fire and the brat pack we’re all boomers.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Ok we get that you're a Millenial who wishes you were a Generation Xer. Can't blame you for that. But just accept the fact that Xers include those who were in HS in the early 80's and not those who were born in 1981.

Demographers set the guidelines not random dcum posters. I’m an older side xer, and I was 10 in 1980. You are talking about boomers.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Boomers were the Woodstock generation. Not people who were 5 when Woodstock happened. People born in 64 cared more about Michael Jackson than the Beetles.

Woodstock isn’t what demographers use, the grouping is based on the post war baby boom which lasted until the mid sixties.