Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm early 80s and don't really identify with either group. I wan't old enough to experience the 80s as a teen or 20 something which seems to be pretty formative for gen x, but I wasn't a digital native which seems like a defining thing for at least the younger millennials

I know tons of people in your cohort - born 1978-1983 - and I believe you’re known as xennials/the Oregon Trail generation.

[Anonymous]

I’m 34 so solidly in the millennial category. I do like avocado toast so if we are going off of that generational stereotype, the shoe fits.

[Anonymous]

I was born in 1983. I feel very disconnected from Gen X (I haven't even seen reality bites), and I wore skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a tunic-length shirt for much of my 20s and a good amount of my thirties. I also graduated right at the beginning of the great recession, putting me at a huge and long-lasting career disadvantage.

I don't really care that much but if I had to choose between Gen X and millennial I pick millennial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1983. I feel very disconnected from Gen X (I haven't even seen reality bites), and I wore skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a tunic-length shirt for much of my 20s and a good amount of my thirties. I also graduated right at the beginning of the great recession, putting me at a huge and long-lasting career disadvantage.

I don't really care that much but if I had to choose between Gen X and millennial I pick millennial.

Very Generation X'er.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1983. I feel very disconnected from Gen X (I haven't even seen reality bites), and I wore skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a tunic-length shirt for much of my 20s and a good amount of my thirties. I also graduated right at the beginning of the great recession, putting me at a huge and long-lasting career disadvantage.

I don't really care that much but if I had to choose between Gen X and millennial I pick millennial.

Very Generation X'er.

Yes indeed. I'm definitely Generation X and would love to wear that combo for life. I may even do so.

[Anonymous]

I've always seen the dates that correspond to the Pew Research data posted earlier. Millennials begin in 1981 (because they graduated high school at the turn of the millennium).
Gen Z starts in 1996-1997, which means the oldest Gen Z are in the workforce now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1983. I feel very disconnected from Gen X (I haven't even seen reality bites), and I wore skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a tunic-length shirt for much of my 20s and a good amount of my thirties. I also graduated right at the beginning of the great recession, putting me at a huge and long-lasting career disadvantage.

I don't really care that much but if I had to choose between Gen X and millennial I pick millennial.

Very Generation X'er.

Yes indeed. I'm definitely Generation X and would love to wear that combo for life. I may even do so.

I was born in 1987 and this is also my wardrobe. I also played Oregon Trail regularly on some old version of a Macintosh computer. I relate far more with someone born in the late 70s through early 90s, than someone born in 2004!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm late 84. I thought I was an elder millennial. Never considered myself or was referred to by anyone else as Gen X.

Does anyone else remember that Generation Y was a thing? Cause that's what I thought I was until "millennial" as a term came into vogue. I don't think I made it up, but it seems to be obsolete.

No, I remember Gen Y, which turned into Millennials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1969 here & complete GenX. But my DH, who was born in 1963, never feels like a Boomer. Our 4 kids span 2 additional generations (Millennial & Zoomer).

Exactly the same with me and DH. Our kids are definite Gen Z (born 03 & 04)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 1980 and feel more Gen x than anything but at the same time don't feel connected to those born in the 60's and experiencing the 80's as 20 somethings.

+1
I also feel there’s a stark divide between people born in 1982 or later, primarily due to technology. When I started college, less than half of us had desktop computers (computer labs were always packed), we still had landline phones, high speed internet was still fairly new, etc. It felt like tech, and it’s effect on day to day living - advanced leaps and bounds in just a few short years by the time I graduated.

[Anonymous]

born in 75 and yes I feel like a Gen X. I could have sworn that several years ago the definition of "Gen X" had me just barely at the tail end of it--so I guess the years have shifted.

My son was born in 2004 and currently a college freshman. No way is he a "millennial" that's absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:73, don’t relate to Gen x of mid 60s. But we are lumped together anyway.

1973….I’m not 73

You really can't relate to someone who is 8 yrs older?

As a person, of course. But their social memory identity is different. They talk about different shows different music and have orientation points of the 60s. I do not. I don’t expect millennials to know my bands or favorite childhood tv shows either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where is gen z??

Gen Z was that until somebody renamed them millennials when they all turned 20 and started annoying people.

No. Gen Z is after millenials.

Millenials are the generation who grew up at the turn of the millenium. So those of us coming of age right around Y2K. I turned 20 in 2000 so I fit.

Another delineation is: did you have a computer in the house during your childhood? Is yes, you are a millenial. If not until high school or later, you are Gen X.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:73, don’t relate to Gen x of mid 60s. But we are lumped together anyway.

1973….I’m not 73

You really can't relate to someone who is 8 yrs older?

As a person, of course. But their social memory identity is different. They talk about different shows different music and have orientation points of the 60s. I do not. I don’t expect millennials to know my bands or favorite childhood tv shows either.

Another 1973er here and I agree with the PP. It's not that I can't relate to my cousins who were born in the mid-60s but we definitely have different touchpoints. They have more of the hippie/disco/long haired love child memory bank whereas I'm way more neon pink polka-dot scrunchie banana clip big hair 80s as my first really definitive environment growing up.

[Anonymous]

Harvard is wrong.