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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Xennials are a legit sub-generation. I'm a 75 baby and see a stark difference between people born in the early 80s and the mid-80s onwards. But they still vary greatly from Gen Xers.

I see GenX as 65-80ish and Millennials beginning in 81, but with a Xennial sub-gen around 78 to 83. [/quote]

The difference is the availability of technology in youth. Internet happened in late 90s, cell phones in early 00s. For those born in early 80s, internet exposure wasn't till college (and the sudden explosion of AOL IM); cell phones early 2000s after graduation from college. It made for vastly different school (and thus, cultural) experiences

I also think there are pop culture differences that matter. Grunge was an xennial thing; emo a millennial thing[/quote]

My sister was born in 81, we had a computer in our house long before she went to college, at least 4 years. I was born in 87, AIM was just getting to be a big thing maybe around my junior year of high school, 6 or 7 years after my sister's graduation. Before that it was ICQ and chat rooms on MSN. I'll agree to cell phones becoming more prominent in early 00s. But my mom had one since mid-late 90s. A cute little flip phone that the battery would die after about 2 hours of talking on it.

The early end of millennials know much more/ have experienced more than the middle and later years of the generation has. I agree that there is a Xennial generation, however I feel that it is more of 85-89... Those born in the 80s and raised in the 90s. But I mean, that's just my perception based on how I feel from my life experiences [/quote]

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