>GenZ 1997 – 2012

I refuse to be grouped into GenZ

I see. So you’re arguing that “rotary phones and rabbit ears to the internet” is a smaller technological change than “dumb cell phones to smart phones”.

You might be right about that, but I think it’s debatable.

*during their formative years. That's the distinction between generations, the experiences during formative years prior to adulthood.

How do you figure that millennials experienced more technological change than any generation before when the silent generation, boomers, and gen x all lived through the exact same technological changes?

Gen Y is millennials. I'm lazy and hate having to remember how to spell it. But now I had to anyway, so failure on my part. Hah.

Is that before or after “millenials”

Exactly. I dont have much in common with older GenX, just mid to late. When people take entire generations and make blanket statements it never works. There's a 15 year age gap and so many differentials to account for.

You just sound like a cunt. You're a millennial cunt though.

You're nowhere near X.

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I'll be 37 this year and I definitely feel like I fit within the scope of Gen Y.

Sigh, of course you are right about the averages, maybe its more of a misnomer then, like call us anything but millenials, i really would have thought 1995-2005 would be millenial

I was born in 57, and I'm not sharing my box of Coffee Nips.

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Shhhh... Just thank grampa for the candy and throw it out when he's not looking.

Also, Werther's slap.

I don't discount your experience, but in fairness, 15 is still a VERY formative period in a person's life, and it's still accurate to say that your development was heavily affected by what was happening at the turn of the millennium. The generations aren't defined by young childhood only.

I would agree though that the way we divide generations right now isn't especially helpful for making meaningful inferences about lived experience besides development of technology and wartimes. Things move too fast, and have since the 70s.

But it's also unhelpful to make too many micro-generations. I was born in 90, and I feel like my experience was vastly different than that of someone born in 95 or 85, but it's because I'm focusing too closely on my own personal experience instead of population averages.

I just hate the name and all it implies, i know when i was born and the way i grew up, and it has nothing to do with the millenium, i was born as close to it as my first daughter…1985 - 2015

Nah man, we’re millennials. But like the Oregon trail generation whose schooling straddled the internet

I would also add that while this is true the edges of the spectrum of each generation tend to get a little gray. I was born in 2000 and share next to no values or opinions with my fellow zoomers and I'm sure a lot of other people born at the start or end of their respective generations feel the same way.

We need to change the name then, because i think of millenials as people younger than me and more annoying. I was fifteen at the turn of the millenium so like i dont associate my real childhood with it, more with nirvana and shag carpetting and a wood panelled station wagon

I love to break it to you but i’m as millenial as my seven year old daughter born in 2015, i was born in 85…nintendo generation im not a fucking annoying millenial glued to my phone and entitled little bitch

I'm not arguing the logic, only how it is defined in culture.

Millennials across the board have one thing in common, which is that whether you're at the beginning or tail end of it, you experienced more and faster technological change than any generation before and also more than Gen Z has so far.

The gap between 1981 and 1997 shows how arbitrary it actually is. If you were born in 1981 then by the time you were 12 Windows 95 was not even a thing. If you were born in 1997 the Iphone was already a thing by the time you were 12. Totally different worlds.

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