Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

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Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

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All of this is arbitrary, I concede, but it makes no sense for PP's list to reduce Gen X to 10 years when every other category is 20 years. Millennials are mostly children of Boomers, and started in the Reagan era, 1981-2.

I am a 1976'er and there's no way I'd consider myself a millenial - not just b/c I don't feel that way or identify, but because I've never seen it on a chart bedesi this one that I am close to being a millenial

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Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

+1.

All of this is arbitrary, I concede, but it makes no sense for PP's list to reduce Gen X to 10 years when every other category is 20 years. Millennials are mostly children of Boomers, and started in the Reagan era, 1981-2.

I am a 1976'er and there's no way I'd consider myself a millenial - not just b/c I don't feel that way or identify, but because I've never seen it on a chart bedesi this one that I am close to being a millenial

You’re not a millennial. Whoever posted that chart doesn’t have a clue.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids lump anyone born pre 2000 as old as dirt.

Remember 1990s, 2000s and 2010s are three oldies channel on my XM radio.

Gen X gets lost as accomplished zero. I think Gen Z has much more on common with Boomers than the other two groups. ,

Amazon was made by a GenXer.

Social media was invented by Gen Xers.

Not really. Instagram and Facebook were both invented by Millenials. Twitter founder was GenX.

Zuck is a Gen X-er

Zuck was born in 1984 and no one considers this Gen X. "Oregon Trail Generation" or "Bridger Generation" or a whole bunch of other nicknames for a micro-generation, sure.

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Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.

No you don’t. If you’re so young, you weren’t at any of the good parties.

I was there. You were the butt of the joke. So to speak.

It wasn't a good look - even then.

Oh. So you’re old like us. Then STFU.

So you were an angry drunk, tramp stamp?

No tramp stamp here. No tattoos at all. But I don’t judge people for them.

So a non-judgmental angry drunk? OK....

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why gen x people think they are laid back or chill. They are a generation of Karen’s.

[Anonymous]

Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

Yes. and we're not chill. We're just used to fending for ourselves, being last, whatever. So that's what leads us to the whatever. We know we'll deal with it or grok it or ignore it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen x, the forgotten generation. 165-1980 We are resourceful, adaptable and know how to take care of ourselves. Maybe because a lot of us had little to no supervision growing up and had to entertain ourselves.

This. We also had to get through college in four years and get jobs right after college because you'd get kicked off your parents' health insurance the day after graduation or the day after you turned 22. And most of our parents would have laughed in our faces if we'd suggested moving back home after graduation.

+1. Or going on their cell phone plans, or Starbucks accounts. Could you even imagine??? Also paid my own car insurance and gas since HIGH SCHOOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers.

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Anonymous wrote:GenX built the Internet.

But we aren't digital natives so we don't understand it. /s

hate to give it to them but boomers bult the internet.It started with the feds and quickly moved to academia. All in the '70s and '80s. My grandfather and father are both, for real, rocket scientists.

Gen X democratized it tho.

I know about ARPANET and all of that. Boomers and the Silent Generation built the skeleton, but GenX built the stuff that you recognize.

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Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.

No you don’t. If you’re so young, you weren’t at any of the good parties.

I was there. You were the butt of the joke. So to speak.

It wasn't a good look - even then.

Oh. So you’re old like us. Then STFU.

So you were an angry drunk, tramp stamp?

No tramp stamp here. No tattoos at all. But I don’t judge people for them.

So a non-judgmental angry drunk? OK....

NP. How’s that day drinking working out for you?

[Anonymous]

Boomers and Millennials have a tendency toward being earnest and humorless.

[Anonymous]

OP is a gen Xer but acts like a boomer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is a gen Xer but acts like a boomer

Absolutely. A few of those on this thread.