Anonymous wrote:It is so funny that Millenials have beef with the Boomers, with the Greatest Generation, with the Silent Generation, with gen X, and now with Zoomers.
Which I thought were generation Z, but ok, everything must have a snazzy name!
Is there a generation you Millenials do not have a beef with?

Anonymous wrote:All I know is that I keep running into a bunch of people in their 20s who believe that a few google searches on a topic makes them an expert on said topic.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. 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.

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.

I love it - Millennials are already at the “Back in my day we...” stage!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

Not only a student email, but a college email from certain colleges. Then it was just fun. Once they opened it up to everyone, it became stupid.

“They” being the millennials who created it. This monster’s on you all.

Anonymous wrote:Zoomers or boomers?

Boomers are seen as selfish, former hippie "I got mine (to hell with you)" types. They ruined the planet. Hypocirtes who were all for "peace", then flipped as long as they can collect their social security.

Gen X were latchkey kids, fending for themselves, while both their parents worked hard and often - as Gen X will do.

Millenials are going to change the world for the better, I have no problem with them. They are educated and speak out, for the better.

My beef is with the "Greatest" generation - who are oblivious. They are reaping all the benefits of economy flukes and timing, while not paying it forward, but feeling supremely entitled. They bought a house for nothing ($30k in the hot areas in 1963), but think Gen X is "rich" for buying a house (at today's prices), without any help. Eff that. No one gave Gen X anything, for the most part.

Rich people, with generational wealth, also do not have my sympathy.

Anonymous wrote:The whole millenial whine summed up by op:
"Why don't you love me! Why do you love my younger brother more! It's unfair! Life is unfair! I are the one that made me this way, it is not my fault, nothing is my fault!"

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I mean, someone born in 1965 is the youngest Boomer, and yet is 56 years old. That’s fairly old.

FWIW Mitch McConnell is 78. I’d look more to his peers as the issue.

McConnell is silent generation. It is these folks and the oldest boomers that have screwed us up.

TBH it seems like millennials care more about this generation stuff. It just wasn’t named in Gen X. We just side eyed everyone, or mostly didn’t bother because we were trying to function and pay rent. It’s all a bit nitpicky.

People wrote articles about how millennials were destroying everything when some of them were still in college.

That’s cyclic as well. It really does happen every generation.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. 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.

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.

I love it - Millennials are already at the “Back in my day we...” stage!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

Not only a student email, but a college email from certain colleges. Then it was just fun. Once they opened it up to everyone, it became stupid.

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I mean, someone born in 1965 is the youngest Boomer, and yet is 56 years old. That’s fairly old.

FWIW Mitch McConnell is 78. I’d look more to his peers as the issue.

McConnell is silent generation. It is these folks and the oldest boomers that have screwed us up.

TBH it seems like millennials care more about this generation stuff. It just wasn’t named in Gen X. We just side eyed everyone, or mostly didn’t bother because we were trying to function and pay rent. It’s all a bit nitpicky.

People wrote articles about how millennials were destroying everything when some of them were still in college.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. 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.

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.

I love it - Millennials are already at the “Back in my day we...” stage!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!

Is that a joke? Because you actually couldn’t get a Facebook account unless you had a student email.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I miss my college days where Facebook was only for college students. 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.

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.

I love it - Millennials are already at the “Back in my day we...” stage!

Not just “back in my day...,” but “back in my day, when Facebook was only for us!” Priceless!