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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

[b]I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students.[/b] 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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

100%! They don’t have the means to discern the crap like we do. Actually, thinking back now Facebook was open to high school students too when I was in college, but it still felt so innocent because nobody outside of our “bubble” could access it. I always joke that the day my mom found Facebook is the day that this world went to hell. I strongly believe the come up of social media is the biggest downfall of this country. [/quote]

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