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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]

How old were you in the 90s? I grew up in a lower-middle-class family in rural part of the country. We had the Internet at home and school by the mid 90s. ICQ was popular, before shifting to MSN Messenger, and then AIM. Napster came out before 2000, and before that there was Scour. By my college years in the early 2000s, a lot of us already had Nokia cell phones. Facebook didn't come until my senior year of college, although AIM continued to be more impactful for a few more years.

From a technology perspective, I think people born in 1982 have a lot more in common with people born in 1985 than 1979. Except for the 2008 recession, the usual 1982 cutoff makes a lot more sense than 1985.[/quote]

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