Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:54
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.
I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..
How old are you and how do you identify?
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
This is fine with me. Younger Gen X will always straddle the analog- digital divide well. We all got our first email accounts, cell phones, internet everything in late high school or college and didn’t have to deal with stupid social media.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:49
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.
I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..
How old are you and how do you identify?
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
Why did they leave out 1985?
I was born in 1986 and definitely feel like I’m on the edge between millennial and gen x.
You are millennial for sure, not a bit Gen X.
You’re mighty confident for someone who doesn’t know me at all.
No definition of Gen X includes 1986. Sorry.
I didn’t say I was Gen X. I said I’m kinda in between. It’s a thing. There’s a big difference between my experience and the experience of someone who had a digital childhood. I did not.
All this special pleading is very millennial
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:36
Subject: Re:Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:1972. I feel so genx. Spent the 70s part of my life on a rural farm. My parents dropped out for a bit after my dad got back from Vietnam. Spent most of my early childhood in the back of a VW bus or listening to Kris Kristofferson records on the hifi. Hitchhiking with my mom when it broke down and then having my mom tell me terrifying stories about why I should never hitchhike. In 1980, we moved to town, I got a bunch of fair isle sweaters. Elementary school memories: standing outside in the rain at school when we had a special assembly after the iranian hostages were released. Hearing a news story on npr about gay men in California who were getting a strange kind of cancer and feeling inexplicably terrified. I was a junior high student in NH watching the Challenger when it blew up. I saw Slacker at the theatre the year I graduated from high school, and when Reality Bites came out I thought it seemed totally fake because nobody who made $400 a week would be complaining about money (my rent was only $220). A guy got stabbed across the street as I was moving into my first apartment (so many of my 90s memories seem to involve some version of "where we saw the body").
And we were kind of the "just say no" generation, but our older sisters were always sneaking us tokes and dropping acid with their boyfriends.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:34
Subject: Re:Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
1972. I feel so genx. Spent the 70s part of my life on a rural farm. My parents dropped out for a bit after my dad got back from Vietnam. Spent most of my early childhood in the back of a VW bus or listening to Kris Kristofferson records on the hifi. Hitchhiking with my mom when it broke down and then having my mom tell me terrifying stories about why I should never hitchhike. In 1980, we moved to town, I got a bunch of fair isle sweaters. Elementary school memories: standing outside in the rain at school when we had a special assembly after the iranian hostages were released. Hearing a news story on npr about gay men in California who were getting a strange kind of cancer and feeling inexplicably terrified. I was a junior high student in NH watching the Challenger when it blew up. I saw Slacker at the theatre the year I graduated from high school, and when Reality Bites came out I thought it seemed totally fake because nobody who made $400 a week would be complaining about money (my rent was only $220). A guy got stabbed across the street as I was moving into my first apartment (so many of my 90s memories seem to involve some version of "where we saw the body").
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:21
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Might be nice for people to stop acting as though they know the experience of people they haven’t met.
That's the thing about generations. It's not individual experiences, it's the group experience.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:20
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.
I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..
How old are you and how do you identify?
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
Why did they leave out 1985?
I was born in 1986 and definitely feel like I’m on the edge between millennial and gen x.
You are millennial for sure, not a bit Gen X.
You’re mighty confident for someone who doesn’t know me at all.
No definition of Gen X includes 1986. Sorry.
I didn’t say I was Gen X. I said I’m kinda in between. It’s a thing. There’s a big difference between my experience and the experience of someone who had a digital childhood. I did not.
I have no idea what you mean when you say "I didn't have a digital childhood." I'm 10 years older than you, and I didn't have a digital childhood. Got my first email address in senior of high school. You must have had email from elementary school, unless you lived under a rock.
I didn’t have email in elementary school. We had computers in the back of the classroom, but e-mail didn’t factor in. This was in Westchester County, NY, so not under a rock.
Whatever. You could have had email, if your parents had allowed it. Your childhood was digital, deal with it. You're not an Xennial or an Oregon Trailer. Just plain old Millennial. I know it's not very cool but it is what it is.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:19
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Might be nice for people to stop acting as though they know the experience of people they haven’t met.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:18
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.
I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..
How old are you and how do you identify?
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
Why did they leave out 1985?
I was born in 1986 and definitely feel like I’m on the edge between millennial and gen x.
You are millennial for sure, not a bit Gen X.
You’re mighty confident for someone who doesn’t know me at all.
No definition of Gen X includes 1986. Sorry.
I didn’t say I was Gen X. I said I’m kinda in between. It’s a thing. There’s a big difference between my experience and the experience of someone who had a digital childhood. I did not.
I have no idea what you mean when you say "I didn't have a digital childhood." I'm 10 years older than you, and I didn't have a digital childhood. Got my first email address in senior of high school. You must have had email from elementary school, unless you lived under a rock.
I didn’t have email in elementary school. We had computers in the back of the classroom, but e-mail didn’t factor in. This was in Westchester County, NY, so not under a rock.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:17
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1983. I feel very disconnected from Gen X (I haven't even seen reality bites), and I wore skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a tunic-length shirt for much of my 20s and a good amount of my thirties. I also graduated right at the beginning of the great recession, putting me at a huge and long-lasting career disadvantage.
I don't really care that much but if I had to choose between Gen X and millennial I pick millennial.
Very Generation X'er.
Gen X here, born 1970 and this sounds totally millennial to me. Didn't get a pair of skinny jeans until my thirties. We were def. not rocking skinny jeans in the 90s.
I feel like if you did not live through the 70s at all, you can't be Gen X.
That's my controversial opinion and I stand by it.
Your childhood has to be defined somewhat by serial killers, the Jim Jones cult, shows like One Day at a Time, Facts of Life, Different Strokes, staying up late to watch Fantasy Island, seeing Star Wars in the theater, knowing what it means when you hear "Mikey likes it," watching your mom drink Tab or Fresca, knowing where you were when Reagan was shot, watching the Challenger explode on TV . . . AT SCHOOL.
I mean, if you were three when the Challenger exploded, you're not Gen-X.
I agree with this.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:16
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.
I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..
How old are you and how do you identify?
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
Why did they leave out 1985?
I was born in 1986 and definitely feel like I’m on the edge between millennial and gen x.
You are millennial for sure, not a bit Gen X.
You’re mighty confident for someone who doesn’t know me at all.
No definition of Gen X includes 1986. Sorry.
I didn’t say I was Gen X. I said I’m kinda in between. It’s a thing. There’s a big difference between my experience and the experience of someone who had a digital childhood. I did not.
I have no idea what you mean when you say "I didn't have a digital childhood." I'm 10 years older than you, and I didn't have a digital childhood. Got my first email address in senior of high school. You must have had email from elementary school, unless you lived under a rock.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:16
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
I’ve never seen Gen Xers so worked up, lol.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:14
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
GenX going as late as 1984 is insane. No way, no how.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:14
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1983. I feel very disconnected from Gen X (I haven't even seen reality bites), and I wore skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a tunic-length shirt for much of my 20s and a good amount of my thirties. I also graduated right at the beginning of the great recession, putting me at a huge and long-lasting career disadvantage.
I don't really care that much but if I had to choose between Gen X and millennial I pick millennial.
Very Generation X'er.
Gen X here, born 1970 and this sounds totally millennial to me. Didn't get a pair of skinny jeans until my thirties. We were def. not rocking skinny jeans in the 90s.
I feel like if you did not live through the 70s at all, you can't be Gen X.
That's my controversial opinion and I stand by it.
Your childhood has to be defined somewhat by serial killers, the Jim Jones cult, shows like One Day at a Time, Facts of Life, Different Strokes, staying up late to watch Fantasy Island, seeing Star Wars in the theater, knowing what it means when you hear "Mikey likes it," watching your mom drink Tab or Fresca, knowing where you were when Reagan was shot, watching the Challenger explode on TV . . . AT SCHOOL.
I mean, if you were three when the Challenger exploded, you're not Gen-X.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:14
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:1978 here and I feel like we're lost in all of this. I'm neither strictly X nor Millennial, so I do like the term Xennial because I feel like I'm a good mix of both. My coming of age was the AIM generation, so can we just call ourselves that?
I’m the 1986 poster and I agree. I didn’t have a cell phone until college. My family got dial up when I was 10. I definitely had an AOL/AIM middle and high school experience. I applied to private high school and wrote the essays by hand. I got the decisions by mail.
There was a lot about my childhood that was analog and then early digital stuff when I was in MS and HS.
Anonymous
12/12/2022 16:12
Subject: Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.
I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..
How old are you and how do you identify?
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
Why did they leave out 1985?
I was born in 1986 and definitely feel like I’m on the edge between millennial and gen x.
You are millennial for sure, not a bit Gen X.
You’re mighty confident for someone who doesn’t know me at all.
No definition of Gen X includes 1986. Sorry.
I didn’t say I was Gen X. I said I’m kinda in between. It’s a thing. There’s a big difference between my experience and the experience of someone who had a digital childhood. I did not.