Anonymous wrote:I was born mid 1964 and my sister was born mid 1965. We are definitely in the same generation, but don’t really identify with either boomer nor gen-ex.

Generation descriptions are squishy generalizations and people seem to want to put hard edges around them and that never works.

You have to put edges around it, otherwise people will segment themselves into smaller and smaller categorizations until they're entirely meaningless.

I was born in 1970 and my DH who was born in 1958 is full boomer (and yes, he tries my patience). This morning when we had to drive a long distance he asked if I could "put on the waves." I've told him 20 times that it is Waze, and that he can put it on his own damn phone.

Anonymous wrote:I was born in '61, but when I attended college in '79 I was in a Philosophy Classes. They asked us if we were baby-boomers, and me being the youngest, said I was too a boomer. The entire class replied I was too young to be a boomer. My Generation was not a boomer generation by acts, feelings,treatment and life philosophy. The original x-gen was for kids born after the 1959 period. It has now been changed to being from being born 1945 to 1964. But, speaking from experience, we NEVER considered ourselves boomers back in the 70's. We were something totally different.

That’s interesting. My friends and I that were born in 1960 and 61 always considered ourselves boomers. I had a Greatest Gen father who returned from WW2 and Silent Gen mother. We watched the moon landing and grew up listening to the shows and music of the Boomers.

I was born in 1973, my BFF was born in 1963. I think she definitely seems more like genx than my boomer parents born in the late 1940s. I always tease her that she gets all the hate but none of the benefits.

I was born mid 1964 and my sister was born mid 1965. We are definitely in the same generation, but don’t really identify with either boomer nor gen-ex.

Generation descriptions are squishy generalizations and people seem to want to put hard edges around them and that never works.

Hilarious all these Boomers trying to jump on the Gen X bandwagon because they are part of the most reviled generation.

1960-1964 The Dazed and Confused Generation! we were the most exposed to boomers yikes ! But we know them the best for better or for worse we know this about boomers ! they are a narcissistic bunch and it’s all about them .

1964 here - I'm gen X all the way

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Anonymous wrote:Those born in the 1959-64 years are “late stage boomers.” Sounds like a terminal disease.

Some of us prefer “generation Jones” as a more accurate description. We”re definitely different and impacted differently by historical and social events vs the earlier boomers. The college I attended was all male and mostly white when the older boomers were choosing schools. Early computers — at least at school — were a given. Just those two things alone : rapidly changing technology and rapidly changing social norms and opportunities make a big difference. Whatever it’s called, the generational descriptions need to take these huge shifts into account.

Oh god, I hate it when people claim these ridiculous microgeneration, like Generation Jones or Xennial. We could drill down further and further until each of us is a totally yooneek speshul generation of one.

Well, you’re “speshul” enough to throw a fit in response to something that doesn’t concern you — unless you decide that you want it to. Enjoy your anonymous hate fest of one.

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Anonymous wrote:Those born in the 1959-64 years are “late stage boomers.” Sounds like a terminal disease.

Some of us prefer “generation Jones” as a more accurate description. We”re definitely different and impacted differently by historical and social events vs the earlier boomers. The college I attended was all male and mostly white when the older boomers were choosing schools. Early computers — at least at school — were a given. Just those two things alone : rapidly changing technology and rapidly changing social norms and opportunities make a big difference. Whatever it’s called, the generational descriptions need to take these huge shifts into account.

Oh god, I hate it when people claim these ridiculous microgeneration, like Generation Jones or Xennial. We could drill down further and further until each of us is a totally yooneek speshul generation of one.

Anonymous wrote:Those born in the 1959-64 years are “late stage boomers.” Sounds like a terminal disease.

Some of us prefer “generation Jones” as a more accurate description. We”re definitely different and impacted differently by historical and social events vs the earlier boomers. The college I attended was all male and mostly white when the older boomers were choosing schools. Early computers — at least at school — were a given. Just those two things alone : rapidly changing technology and rapidly changing social norms and opportunities make a big difference. Whatever it’s called, the generational descriptions need to take these huge shifts into account.

"On the basis of the time it takes for a generation to mature, U.S. authors William Strauss and Neil Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981 in their 1991 book Generations, and divide the cohort into two waves.[48] Jeff Gordinier, in his 2008 book X Saves the World, includes those born between 1961 and 1977 but possibly as late as 1980.[9] George Masnick of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the time frame of 1965 to 1984 to satisfy the condition that boomers, Xers, and millennials "cover equal 20-year age spans".[44] In 2004, journalist J. Markert acknowledged the 20-year increments but went a step further, dividing the generation into two 10-year cohorts. The first begins in 1966 and ends in 1975 and the second begins in 1976 and ends in 1985; this thinking is applied to each generation (Silent, boomers, Gen X, millennials, etc.)"

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I was born in '61, but when I attended college in '79 I was in a Philosophy Classes. They asked us if we were baby-boomers, and me being the youngest, said I was too a boomer. The entire class replied I was too young to be a boomer. My Generation was not a boomer generation by acts, feelings,treatment and life philosophy. The original x-gen was for kids born after the 1959 period. It has now been changed to being from being born 1945 to 1964. But, speaking from experience, we NEVER considered ourselves boomers back in the 70's. We were something totally different.

Those born in the 1959-64 years are “late stage boomers.” Sounds like a terminal disease.

As someone born in the 70s anyone born before then gives boomer to me. I realize that’s not the official range. Maybe 1969 forward.