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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Jan 1981, so as close to the Pew line as one can get, and really am a Xennial.  I didn't get a cell phone until I was in graduate school and didn't get an email addresses until college.  I filled out my college applications in hard copy, read a paper map to find my way around for the first decade I was driving, and know how to use the Dewey decimal system for research.  I backpacked across Europe for three summers with no cell phone and only paper maps, only getting on Internet at cafes every 2-3 weeks. I got all the way through college before camera phones became ubiquitous.  Lots of formative experiences that Millennials mostly don't have.  I "adulted" before I had a cell phone or regular internet access, let alone social media.

My Millennial younger siblings had social media in their teens or earlier and cannot recall a time when everyone didn't have a camera phone to record antics.Their college experience was very different, as a result.  They also don't recall how to communicate without texting, have always been in direct communication with our parents (unlike me who spent months in Europe with no phone), and can't read a map to save their lives.

But I'm also not Gen X.  I don't relate to the music or culture.  I don't know the politics.  It was all older than me.

I'd put myself solidly in a separate category.[/quote]

+1 born in 79 (a month shy of 1980).

Nobody had a cell phone till just after college graduation and then they were flip phones. My freshman year in college was the first time I used email. I didn't have a photo phone till mid or late 20s? I used maps and followed highway signs to get around when driving. These are xennial things, millennials generally don't relate

[b]I read elsewhere that Xennisls differ by having an analog childhood and digital young adulthood. I think that generally sums it up.[/b]

There are also significant differences in music, tv, movies for xennials who had an 80s childhood / 90s teens vs millennial experiences [/quote]

1977 here and I agree, especially with the bolded part. I took a word processor/printer to college at a big state school, and a couple of girls on my floor in my dorm had those. One girl had an actual desktop computer. I got my first email address at college and it was a DOS system that could only be accessed from the computer lab using command prompts.

Friends who are 5 years younger had a totally different experience with education, TV shows, movies, music…. [/quote]

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