Generation Xer's do you feel more similar to baby boomers or millenials?

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Anonymous wrote:I am in the microgeneration between x and millennial - the xennials.

In reading the definitions of the microgeneration, it explained why I never truly felt like a gen xer

This is a new one to me. What years make up xenials?

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Anonymous wrote:[b]1971 and I am more of a Millennial because I appreciate they they ushered in the flexible schedule and the casual-dress workplace.

My parents are typical selfish Boomers who tick all the boxes:

Didn't save enough for retirement
Can't figure out how to recycle so don't bother
Need constant desktop support for basic life
Self-involved to the point that they are checked out of grandchildren's lives (and not just mine)

How have things like this become what defines a generation? I think of generations as those who have a shared culture - they can relate to the same movies, fashions, experiences. Not oh this generation ushered in a flexible work place, or this generation didn't save enough for retirement. I mean how are you to know whether an acquaintance saved enough for retirement, but you can sure tell whether or not you like the same music.

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Anonymous wrote:1978 here. I think a lot of us younger Gen Xers bridge the gap between the Boomers and millennials. There are aspects of both that we can’t relate to, but a lot that we can. It’s a unique position to be in, really. We are the pragmatists who can deal with both sides - if they cared to listen to us, that is. Shrug.

This is why I think the micro-generation 1975-1985 ish makes sense. The "Oregon Trail" generation or the "Bridger" generation, sometimes Xennials. Basically those of us who grew up without the internet and cell phones, etc. but were introduced to these things early enough to adapt to them fairly easily.

/older Millenial

I think 1980-1985 would be more appropriate

1980 is too late. I’m 1978, and when I was in high school, email and the Internet were just starting to become a thing. When I got to college in 1996, the senior class at the time hadn’t started college with routine email use, but my class used email for everything. Not many of us had cell phones in college, but right after college, almost everyone did. We didn’t grow up with that kind of technology, but it came around in time for use to embrace it while we were late teens/early 20s, and we adapted/embraced it more readily than out older genx peers.

At the same time, I think 1985 is a little on the late side to claim this, because they got a lot of this same technology as younger teens, so they grew up with it more than we did.

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Anonymous wrote:Born in ‘65 and can not stand the boomers - their music and culture. So tired of it being jammed down your throat and told how great everything boomer is.

Millennials...I think they are going to be a very bitter generation.

I think this is part of the generation x experience. We grew up hearing boomers yammer on about the glorious 60s and how cool and radical their generation was.

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^^NP. I think 1977-1982 should be the range for xennials. Those of us born during those years shared mostly the same music, TV, and email/internet didn’t exist for many years of our childhoods.

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Xennial here (1980), or Oregon Trail microgeneration (I've heard this discussed as 1978-1982). I think I'm closer to the Millennials than Gen-X. Too young to really experience the 80s and came of age in the 90s. I'd consider myself an older Millennial rather than Gen-X since I never really got the disaffected, slacker part of that generation. The 90s were fun and optimistic overall. Defining generational experiences were the internet as a teenager, Napster in college, 9/11 at 21 and back to back financial shocks (Dotcom crash and Great Recession). I fortunately had a long enough start to my career so that it wasn't derailed at the outset like many later Millennials.

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I posted above and I am a 77 baby, but graduated with mostly 76ers. I am most definitely in the analog childhood/digital adulthood demo. First email as a freshman in college, got a cell phone right out of college.

I was a kid in the 80s and a teen/young adult in the 90s.

Again, I never felt like I fit the genX stereotypes.

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Will the world end after gen z? Since we ran out of alphabets.


I was born in 1965. I feel like a Gen Xer.

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I feel boomers are selfish and millennials are foolish. I try not to be either.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither.

My parents were the Silent Generation, right before the Boomers.

I identify with them. They were also a small generation—self-sufficient, independent and non-whiners.

Born in 1970

My husband born in 1971, me in 1970, were just saying the same thing. Our parents were silent generation born between 1941-1943 and it makes sense their kids were Gen X as the generations were both small and characterized as independent and self-sufficient.

The Silent Generation helped shape 20th century pop culture, with pioneering rock musicians, iconic filmmakers, television legends, beat poets, gonzo journalists and groundbreaking political satirists.

Generation X is independent, resourceful, and self-sufficient. They value freedom and responsibility in the workplace. Many in this generation display a casual disdain for authority and structured work hours. They dislike being micro-managed and embrace a hands-off management philosophy.

Hell yea— I work from home and my husband is an independent consultant.

My kids are Gen Y. They are fairly cynical/practical. The 14-year old started his own lawn business to make $. They are less about social media than their 20-something millennial cousins.

I thought the silent generation were born in the 30s- too young to fight in WWII, but old enough to fight in Korea. I think those born in 1941-43 were too young to fight in Korea.

No. Google it

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I was born in 71 and hate all things reminiscent of the 60s because I grew up with boomers yammering about that decade being the best ever.

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1981. I’m 38. Right on the cusp. I understand both sides, relate to neither completely. Watching Boomers and Millenials is like being the middle child at home around the dinner table in a family of 6.

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1996 is the year the internet became ubiquitous. 13 is the commonly accepted milestone age where you transition from child to teen. So I'm going to declare that the real Millenial generation starts at 1983 -- the first generation of kids to go through their entire adolescence with the Internet. (the next generation will be those who turned 13 in the smartphone world - so I think that will mean 1994 - on.

A little harder to draw the line between Boomers and Gen X, but I'm going to say that Boomers are everyone who experienced the 60s and 70s as adolescents onward. So starts at 1947 and ends at 1967.

So: Boomers are 1947-1967.
Gen X are 1967-1983
Millenials are 1983-1994
Xennials are 1994 -on.

As the pace of technology and world events quickens the generations shorten.

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I don't feel more similar to either. This generational fighting is old and tired. It's all so lame.

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Anonymous wrote:Xennial here (1980), or Oregon Trail microgeneration (I've heard this discussed as 1978-1982). I think I'm closer to the Millennials than Gen-X. Too young to really experience the 80s and came of age in the 90s. I'd consider myself an older Millennial rather than Gen-X since I never really got the disaffected, slacker part of that generation. The 90s were fun and optimistic overall. Defining generational experiences were the internet as a teenager, Napster in college, 9/11 at 21 and back to back financial shocks (Dotcom crash and Great Recession). I fortunately had a long enough start to my career so that it wasn't derailed at the outset like many later Millennials.

1978 here and that’s my experience as well. Along with what you noted, one major thing was the start of normalizing online communities and engagement. For me it started with ICQ, AIM, and chatrooms before progressing to GeoCities, message boards, LiveJournal, and MySpace. I had an original clickwheel iPod and over 25000 songs from Napster.