Why are millennials hated and zoomers loved?

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Anonymous wrote:As a Gen Xer this whole thread makes me laugh and for us cynics well done. Carry on! Carry on!

I mean it’s all SO IMPORTANT.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

It’s pretty classic to dis anyone 5-10 years plus or minus. You’ll figure that out when you’re just past what you now see as viable.

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Anonymous wrote:Even when millennials were just becoming a "thing", we were hated. I feel like I only hear positive things about zoomers.

You thinking everyone hating you is actually a millennial thing. The millennials I know are great people but show little respect for others and are extremely sensitive. If anyone says the slightest hint that could be considered an insult they are offended forever.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

Absolutely. I see that. But it’s not universal. It’s important to interact with individuals and not go by studies. The generalizations are super problematic. Life is not just tech and statistics.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

Absolutely. I see that. But it’s not universal. It’s important to interact with individuals and not go by studies. The generalizations are super problematic. Life is not just tech and statistics.

Yeah, but boomers generally suck at discerning what’s reliable information and what’s garbage.

I agree with the fellow old millennials that Facebook was better when it was only open to college students.

Let’s also be clear: Boomers have always skewed Republican. They’re the ones who brought us Nixon, Reagan, and finally Trump. They’ve always been shitheads.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

Absolutely. I see that. But it’s not universal. It’s important to interact with individuals and not go by studies. The generalizations are super problematic. Life is not just tech and statistics.

Yeah, but boomers generally suck at discerning what’s reliable information and what’s garbage.

I agree with the fellow old millennials that Facebook was better when it was only open to college students.

Let’s also be clear: Boomers have always skewed Republican. They’re the ones who brought us Nixon, Reagan, and finally Trump. They’ve always been shitheads.

The hippies are boomers. They didn’t all suddenly become pod people. Some slid into Republicanism, many did not.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

Absolutely. I see that. But it’s not universal. It’s important to interact with individuals and not go by studies. The generalizations are super problematic. Life is not just tech and statistics.

Yeah, but boomers generally suck at discerning what’s reliable information and what’s garbage.

I agree with the fellow old millennials that Facebook was better when it was only open to college students.

Let’s also be clear: Boomers have always skewed Republican. They’re the ones who brought us Nixon, Reagan, and finally Trump. They’ve always been shitheads.

The hippies are boomers. They didn’t all suddenly become pod people. Some slid into Republicanism, many did not.

Nope. Think about it. Hippies were half silent generation, have old Boomers. A big chunk of Boomers were too young to be hippies. Look at the voting stats. You’ll see I’m right.

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The 1980 election is a great example of what I’m talking about. The median boomer (born in 1955) would have been 25 years old.

You’d think, by common perception, that they would skew liberal, being younger. Wrong. They were evenly split between Carter and Reagan. Same with the 1984 election, when the median boomer would be about 30. Just as conservative as the rest of the country. It holds for the 1988 election too, when that median boomer is 35.

If boomers were ever more liberal than their parents, it ended by the time they were in their mid-20s.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

Absolutely. I see that. But it’s not universal. It’s important to interact with individuals and not go by studies. The generalizations are super problematic. Life is not just tech and statistics.

Yeah, but boomers generally suck at discerning what’s reliable information and what’s garbage.

I agree with the fellow old millennials that Facebook was better when it was only open to college students.

Let’s also be clear: Boomers have always skewed Republican. They’re the ones who brought us Nixon, Reagan, and finally Trump. They’ve always been shitheads.

The hippies are boomers. They didn’t all suddenly become pod people. Some slid into Republicanism, many did not.

Nope. Think about it. Hippies were half silent generation, have old Boomers. A big chunk of Boomers were too young to be hippies. Look at the voting stats. You’ll see I’m right.

This is why zoomers are more fun. They’d have produced a scathing but hysterical video by now.

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I mean, someone born in 1965 is the youngest Boomer, and yet is 56 years old. That’s fairly old.

FWIW Mitch McConnell is 78. I’d look more to his peers as the issue.

McConnell is silent generation. It is these folks and the oldest boomers that have screwed us up.

TBH it seems like millennials care more about this generation stuff. It just wasn’t named in Gen X. We just side eyed everyone, or mostly didn’t bother because we were trying to function and pay rent. It’s all a bit nitpicky.

People wrote articles about how millennials were destroying everything when some of them were still in college.

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Anonymous wrote:The 1980 election is a great example of what I’m talking about. The median boomer (born in 1955) would have been 25 years old.

You’d think, by common perception, that they would skew liberal, being younger. Wrong. They were evenly split between Carter and Reagan. Same with the 1984 election, when the median boomer would be about 30. Just as conservative as the rest of the country. It holds for the 1988 election too, when that median boomer is 35.

If boomers were ever more liberal than their parents, it ended by the time they were in their mid-20s.

Wow I didn’t know that.

[Anonymous]

It is the age. Millennials were loved when they were zoomed aged. GenEx was loved when they were zoomed aged. Boomers were loved....

It is a promising age.

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Anonymous wrote:It is the age. Millennials were loved when they were zoomed aged. GenEx was loved when they were zoomed aged. Boomers were loved....

It is a promising age.

Umm, are you kidding? No one loves college aged kids. That’s when the “kids these days” gripping is at its height.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. It really felt safe and carefree. I agree with you that social media ruined everything. I fear for kids these days who will never be able to escape something stupid they do online and live completely through it. It’s no longer a safe space. My early 30s age group was the last that grew up with any sort of technology innocence.

Yes! It was so much better then. Everything went downhill when it was opened up to everybody. I always tell my sister (also an old Millennial) that Boomers on Facebook is how we got Trump.

I love it - Millennials are already at the “Back in my day we...” stage!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!