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

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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.

Gen "Z" is 2005 - 2025

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1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

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I don't think the years in the OP are correct - they expand Gen X too much, and honestly '65 is a little late for Boomers.

Boomers were born between WWii and "the 60s" which is def. before 1965.
GenX were teens or young 20s in the 1980s.
Xennials are a small generation but they are distinct because they grew up during a major tech and media shift.
Millennials had email by the time they got to HS, and candybar cell phones in college or shortly after.
Gez Z could get smart phones in HS and have always been online.
"Gen Alpha" are kids born in 2010 or later, some now approaching teens.

Generations should get smaller (fewer years) as cultural and technological change is speeding up. There are more defining events and less similarity.

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I think this is definitely wrong about the Boomers. I think Generation Jones is real. Aside from historical events— older Boomers had very different experiences with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movements , as well as with technology. I’m not sure exactly where to draw the line, but younger Boomers and Older Boomers have very different cultural, social, and historical experiences and possibly values.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is definitely wrong about the Boomers. I think Generation Jones is real. Aside from historical events— older Boomers had very different experiences with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movements , as well as with technology. I’m not sure exactly where to draw the line, but younger Boomers and Older Boomers have very different cultural, social, and historical experiences and possibly values.

Exactly, which is why all of the anti-Boomer sentiment is ridiculous. The youngest Boomers did not enjoy the alleged advantages that people complain about, nor were they old enough to vote when Ronald Reagan was elected.

[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.

huh. Don't these two things contradict each other? It wasn't until 2000 that over half of US households had computers in them (51% in 2000). The vast, vast majority of people born in 1980 like you did not have computers in their house as children. "Zillennials" (late 90s babies) and early Gen Z (early 2000s) were the first group to consistently have computers in their house for their entire childhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is definitely wrong about the Boomers. I think Generation Jones is real. Aside from historical events— older Boomers had very different experiences with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movements , as well as with technology. I’m not sure exactly where to draw the line, but younger Boomers and Older Boomers have very different cultural, social, and historical experiences and possibly values.

Boomers have been 1946-1964 forever as defined by everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is definitely wrong about the Boomers. I think Generation Jones is real. Aside from historical events— older Boomers had very different experiences with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movements , as well as with technology. I’m not sure exactly where to draw the line, but younger Boomers and Older Boomers have very different cultural, social, and historical experiences and possibly values.

Boomers have been 1946-1964 forever as defined by everyone.

Under the definition, yes, but most discussion about Boomer are about a subset of that generation, not those board in the 60s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Gen "Z" is 2005 - 2025

Nah. My kids are 2002 and 2004 and that group loves to poke fun at "millennial things"- side parts, ballet flats/skinny jeans, "but first, coffee", doggo, adulting, being obsessed with Harry Potter, gatekeeping things like VCRs and the 90s, using the laugh/cry emoji, "I did a thing", #girlboss culture...I am told by them that millennials are super "cringe."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where is gen z??

Starting in 1996

Not in the Harvard definition.

I think the Harvard definitions are superfluous. Pew already defined the generations, and did it better.

[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.

GenX had the distinction of being graduates into two crashes and recessions.

I graduated in 2001 right after dot.com crashed hard and then of course 9/11. Other GenX may have had that brief window of good times until 2007 crashed hard again

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Anonymous wrote:Hell no. I was born 1983 and am totally an older millennial.

Technically an Xer

No way! Totally an old Millenial.

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I'm 39 (b. 1983) and I feel firmly millennial.

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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.

I think this cohort starts earlier and ends earlier. I would put it 1977-1982.

[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.

LOL so true! Millennial has spread from an actual generation to a group of entitled twenty-somethings in the office no matter what the year. I am Gen X (same age as Monica Lewinsky) and even as a young worker myself there were "millennials" who were taking the piss-- socializing, taking long lunches, get hammered at happy hours and then showing up at work the next day with just a different tie, abusing expense accounts, expecting to be promoted, flirting and BJs to get promoted... it's really not a millennial thing, but they got the reputation.