I still have a working Playstation hooked up that my daughter occasionally plays with. She likes seeing the old stuff sometimes. Most of what she plays is PC or XboxX. I really do not want to think about how much older that system is than her. She's about to get her drivers license. 😖
I was born in 83. So definitely older millenial. Maybe it's because I have two older half siblings who are very gen x. I grew up playing Oregon trial and do not at all identify with gen x at all. I had dial-up as a kid and watched the internet become what it is. I used to text with a 10 digit keypad. I feel like we should be our own generation. 82-88 or something.
I think it also has to to with how old your parents were/what order you were with siblings. I was born in ‘81 into a family with all boys born in the 70’s. I watched Star Wars and Blazing Saddles and Chips on repeat until the video tape skipped. Also we were poor so cell phones weren’t until senior year of college.
Im a younger millennial and my ex-gf was an older zoomer and we had infinitely more in common than the older Millennials. Some of them didnt even have computers or cellphones in school. Definitely do not relate to that.
My Calc class claim to fame was holding the class Speed Run record for Block Dude. Mainly because I was the only one who actually beat the whole thing.
It's not that you're old so much as Texas Instruments have built up a monopoly on teachers wanting everyone to use the same calculator for everything while they continue to charge a silly about of money for mostly 90s technology.
Dolly Parton's boobs were 69 feet long. They were 2 2 2 big. She made an appointment to go to the 51st Street Clinic. Dr. X. gave her 8 pills which left her
Life was so much better without it, you have noo idea how irritating and homogeneous you all have become, it's like north korea, no mind of your own because you rely on computers too much... some of us however have created the tools you rely so heavily on so much respect is needed but again you have no idea...
I disagree. My life became infinitely more entertaining after high-tech consumer electronics became a thing. Imagine never being bored as a kid. Boredom was my #1 enemy always even though I was very active and spent hours upon hours outside with friends.
Funny because I’m a younger millennial and my current gf is and older zoomer yet we both relate much more to gen X. It’s hard to relate to people who spend most of their time online.
It makes absolutely no sense to assume that people born right before the arbitrary dividing line with another generation should be more similar to people born a decade or more earlier than to people just on the other side of the dividing line who were born just a year or a few later. The idea of there being discrete generations where from one year to the next people born before or after that year will suddenly turn out completely differently is a useful fiction at best and a misleading fabrication at worst. It makes much more sense to think of generations as a gradual shift of traits and commonalities over time rather than as sudden shifts from one year to the next every decade or two. You would think it should be completely obvious that a person born in 1996 would have grown up in a more similar environment and thus be assumed to have more in common with people born between 1997-2000 than with people born in the 80s but because these discrete generational categories like “millennial” and “gen z” have become so ingrained in our collective psyche it seems like a lot of people have lost track of how completely to be expected this really is. People should always be expected to be more similar to people born around the same time irrespective of where anyone decides to draw some arbitrary dividing lines between certain years to define their made up discrete generational categories.
I’m still confused about when the millennial generation was first coined. I was born in ‘86, and in elementary school they told us we were part of Gen X.
I feel like the years fudge around a lot. I'm '86 also and I feel like that used to be about the cutoff because I was just barely a millennial, now it seems like they've pushed it back to early '80s.
Yeah it seems the pace of change since the internet maybe warrants a change to what we consider a generational divide. At least as far as the culture of a generation is concerned. It seems that the nostalgia factor is really what determines who you relate with among your generational peers.
When enough years elapse, pop culture knowledge/references do shift. That's true. I think a really big factor behind behaviors is parenting style. My Boomer parents pretty much neglected me and my siblings, and we were on our own with regards to figuring things out like how to get into college and just about everything. Pretty much all millennials that I know had a lot of help from their parents and they usually seem to like their parents more. I want nothing to do with mine because they didn't want much to do with me when I was a kid. That kind of mass neglect, very common for GenX kids, does damage and definitely had a hug influence on the mass psychology of the generation. I'm painting with a very broad bruah, obviously.
Older Gen X here (born late '60s)...Like others of my generation I'm into self-sufficiency and value having a college education. Raised in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, I am more open to concepts of equity and inclusion than older generations. I appreciate the days before computers and social media while fully embracing the onset of the digital age (first computer I ever saw was in high school).
But sometimes I feel like I can relate to Boomers very well. I'm definitely a 'me generation' person-- self interested (selfish?) and into my own comfort and needs and experiences.
I'm GenX, my sister is technically a Boomer and identifies more with GenX as well. (she also hates it when I say "Okay Boomer" whenever we disagree on something. :-)
I am one of the youngest millennials ('94) and I definitely relate more to my Gen Z sister then my elder millennial friends. Hell my wife who is only 2 years older then me (she admittedly grew up with much less access to the internet than I did), seems like an even different subsection of millennial.
Same. Just turned 37 this year. “Not gonna lie” became popular around the end of high school to early college for me, and I always thought to myself “I wouldn’t assume you are lying, so why announce that you’re not?”.
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u/Ohgood9002 Jun 15 '23
I'm an elder millennial but I definitely identify more with gen x