Anonymous wrote:I was born in July 1964. I have seen 1964 cited as the last year of the Baby Boom. I have also seen it cited as the first year of Gen X.

I don’t feel I have anything in common with Boomers and - frankly - that generation deeply disappoints me of late. Boomers had so many opportunities and now many of them seek to change the rules for younger generations. It’s like Fox News has corrupted them as much as violent video games have corrupted many young people today.

I don’t know much about what Gen X represents, so I do not identify with that generation either. I just do my own thing.

I'm generation X -1972, and I don't really know what our generation is supposed to represent either.

Anonymous wrote:I was born in ‘77. Everyone who was in college or HS when I was a freshman in HS feels like my generation. Everyone younger doesn’t.

(Recognizes this isn’t demographicly true. Just wildly extrapolating from my experience.)

My sister was born in 77 and she feels the same way. She considers herself part of generation X, but definitely at the tale end. Neither one of us consider our cousins who were born in 80 and 82 to be Xers. Don't know what they consider themselves to be.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 62 years old. I do not feel like a boomer and when we socialize with older people, even 4 years older, I feel like we are socializing with my parents' friends. Worlds apart. I cannot even imagine living in an over 55 development.
I have some head work to do. I know.

Makes sense to me. You were part of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll generation. People born four years earlier than you were not.

And yet I didn't do any drugs, liked pop music and married in my early 20s, so -nope. Those older than me were into drugs (LSD, opiates), rock, and counter culture. I think most people don't understand the culture associated with age groups- I see a lot of misconceptions here, particularly against boomers. They were the true renegades and now people think they are Fox News devotees. Not anyone I know! Not on this coast!

Well of course not everyone was doing those things. But the sex, drugs, and rock and roll culture began in the late 60's. Not everyone in HS in the 70's was partaking of it, but the culture didn't even really exist prior to 1965. Don't you think attending a Led Zeppelin concert in 1972 would have been a far different experience than attending a Rick Nelson concert in 1962?

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Boomers were the Woodstock generation. Not people who were 5 when Woodstock happened. People born in 64 cared more about Michael Jackson than the Beetles.

Woodstock isn’t what demographers use, the grouping is based on the post war baby boom which lasted until the mid sixties.

Well then demographers are idiots and should be ignored.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Ok we get that you're a Millenial who wishes you were a Generation Xer. Can't blame you for that. But just accept the fact that Xers include those who were in HS in the early 80's and not those who were born in 1981.

Demographers set the guidelines not random dcum posters. I’m an older side xer, and I was 10 in 1980. You are talking about boomers.

My boomer mother had a child in Jr. High when the Brat Pack movies came out.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Boomers were the Woodstock generation. Not people who were 5 when Woodstock happened. People born in 64 cared more about Michael Jackson than the Beetles.

It isn’t defined by events per se. The post war baby boom, i.e., large numbers of babies being born, lasted until the mid sixties. Gen x was originally known as the baby bust, because the birth rate dropped substantially, and millennials as the second baby boom.

But that seems silly. People consider themselves part of a generation because of a shared culture, not because of birth rates. People born in the early 60's were part of the higher birth rates that started in the 1940's, but they have nothing in common with them culturally.

Anonymous wrote:I was born in ‘77. Everyone who was in college or HS when I was a freshman in HS feels like my generation. Everyone younger doesn’t.

(Recognizes this isn’t demographicly true. Just wildly extrapolating from my experience.)

I agree. Born in 1979. Kids born in 1985 and afterwards feel like they are a different generation altogether. I think it has to do with the internet and computers. If you were born in the late 1970s/early 1980s you will remember classrooms without computers, teachers who couldn't figure out what to do with the computer when the school finally put one into the classroom, social life in high school and college without cell phones, thinking that the internet was for dorks and geeks who colonized the computer lab and all that and why would you ever want to waste your time on chatrooms and staring at a dull screen. There were even a few years in the early 2000s when we laughed at people who had cell phones as it seemed slightly pathetic. The kids who were born after 1985 were exposed to computers and the internet and cell phones at a much younger age and have different relationships with them, methinks.

I was born in ‘77. Everyone who was in college or HS when I was a freshman in HS feels like my generation. Everyone younger doesn’t.

(Recognizes this isn’t demographicly true. Just wildly extrapolating from my experience.)

Funny how many people responding aren’t born between ‘60 and ‘64. I was born in 61 and always considered myself a boomer. I think the defining moment for our generation was the moon walk. I remember my family gathered around the TV watching it in awe and every boomer I know remembers a similar experience. I graduated from college into a recession and many of us late boomers have struggled to achieve all the milestones of adult life. My parents were Greatest Generation and my children are millenials. I think we’re all nice, hardworking people.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 62 years old. I do not feel like a boomer and when we socialize with older people, even 4 years older, I feel like we are socializing with my parents' friends. Worlds apart. I cannot even imagine living in an over 55 development.
I have some head work to do. I know.

Makes sense to me. You were part of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll generation. People born four years earlier than you were not.

And yet I didn't do any drugs, liked pop music and married in my early 20s, so -nope. Those older than me were into drugs (LSD, opiates), rock, and counter culture. I think most people don't understand the culture associated with age groups- I see a lot of misconceptions here, particularly against boomers. They were the true renegades and now people think they are Fox News devotees. Not anyone I know! Not on this coast!

I was born in July 1964. I have seen 1964 cited as the last year of the Baby Boom. I have also seen it cited as the first year of Gen X.

I don’t feel I have anything in common with Boomers and - frankly - that generation deeply disappoints me of late. Boomers had so many opportunities and now many of them seek to change the rules for younger generations. It’s like Fox News has corrupted them as much as violent video games have corrupted many young people today.

I don’t know much about what Gen X represents, so I do not identify with that generation either. I just do my own thing.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

Why do you have such strong hate for Boomers? I'm an Xer and got sick to death of all their 60's nostalgia back in the 80's, but other than that I have nothing against them.

You must not remember the part where they were constantly telling us they were better than us.

No one cares. You need to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

If you were born in 1964 then you are technically a boomer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20boomer

Wrong. Read the wiki article on Gen X.

Demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe rejected the frequently used 1964 end-date of the baby-boomer cohort (which results in a 1965 start-year), saying that a majority of those born between 1961 and 1964 do not self-identify as boomers, and that they are culturally distinct from boomers in terms of shared historical experiences. Howe says that while many demographers use 1965 as a start date for Generation X, this is a statement about fertility in the population (birth-rates which began declining in 1957, declined more sharply following 1964) and fails to take into consideration the shared history and cultural identity of the individuals. Strauss and Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

Why do you have such strong hate for Boomers? I'm an Xer and got sick to death of all their 60's nostalgia back in the 80's, but other than that I have nothing against them.

You must not remember the part where they were constantly telling us they were better than us.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.

Which is generation X. Why the confusion?

It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.

Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.

Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.

The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.

That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.

Ok we get that you're a Millenial who wishes you were a Generation Xer. Can't blame you for that. But just accept the fact that Xers include those who were in HS in the early 80's and not those who were born in 1981.

I agree with that. I think that early/mid 60's can be part of Gen X. People born in 1980/1981 graduated HS in '98/'99 - which was well past the Breakfast Club/Saint Elmo's Fire era.

Saint Elmo’s Fire and the brat pack we’re all boomers.

It was the era that the movies came out. I was in college in '85 when Saint Elmo's Fire came out. It resonated with me because I was in college and I was even partying with my friends in Georgetown at the time. It was definitely a movie for my crowd at the time, not the people who had already graduated, married, started families. And it wasn't a movie for kids. It was a young adult in the 80's movie.