Generational breaks

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Ragoo
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Is it time to revise how we define generational splits? For instance; knowing what or having used either of these two items makes you more Gen X than Millenial.


COOL LASER FALCON
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You're a millennial. Sorry dude. Just go ahead and call your parents and ask them to write a note to get out of work because they're not being sensitive to your triggers. No sense in fighting it.
aTm2004
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Whew! Used both.
Pollo Libre
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You're a millennial. Sorry dude. Just go ahead and call your parents and ask them to write a note to get out of work because they're not being sensitive to your triggers. No sense in fighting it.

How does the haterade taste today, sir?
Madaman
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I am generation Awesome.
nuRowdy
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No. The definition is clear that Millennials are anyone born on of after January 1, 1982. Accept it. I have.
tford12
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I used the red one.

Seen the first one used, and am aware of what it is, but never had to use it myself
aTm2004
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No. The definition is clear that Millennials are anyone born on of after January 1, 1982. Accept it. I have.

Whew!! Made the cut again!
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You're a millennial. Sorry dude. Just go ahead and call your parents and ask them to write a note to get out of work because they're not being sensitive to your triggers. No sense in fighting it.

How does the haterade taste today, sir?
GregZeppelin
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.
aTm2004
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.

I see a difference between those who got their ass whipped vs those who just got a timeout.
fishinaggiegirl
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I remember both...
Geralt of Rivia
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.
Anyone who's spanked it to frustrating, line-by-line dial-up porn and still thought it was the greatest thing they've ever experienced is ok in my book.
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.


This. People who are very late 20's early 30's have some of the millenial traits, but when you go younger than that it is a stark difference.
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.
Anyone who's spanked it to frustrating, line-by-line dial-up porn and still thought it was the greatest thing they've ever experienced is ok in my book.


And then someone would go and pick up the *******ed phone and ruin everything!!!
Beer Baron
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And then someone would go and pick up the *******ed phone and ruin everything!!!
"GDit, <sister's name>, nothing you and your 7th grade friends could want to talk about could possibly be this important!"
Ragoo
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.
Anyone who's spanked it to frustrating, line-by-line dial-up porn and still thought it was the greatest thing they've ever experienced is ok in my book.

what about cable channel 99 fuzzy pron?
Beer Baron
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what about cable channel 99 fuzzy pron?
We had the giant satellite in the back yard that you'd literally aim at different satellites in space. While it was changing from one to the other you could sometimes stop it in just the right spot to get a very blurry and exciting picture.
Ragoo
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.

kinda my point. if gen x breaks somewhere around 1981-1982 then there is a very real split with kids from '82-'90 versus those born after 1990 or so. They likely all have older siblings that are gen x or their childhood friends did. Whereas kids born after 1990 are generally the oldest sibling and their teen years are dominated by social media.
Holly Golightly
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I love this thread.

Oh and I still have the first in my office
Duncan Idaho
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Sorry a push button phone would have been more Gen x than a rotary phone.
Ogre09
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I don't know what the top thing is, but remember owning the bottom one as a small child (never used it).

I did use cassette tapes, pay phones, vcr/vhs, hand cranked car windows, CRT tvs, computer mouse with rolling ball, 3.5" floppy disks, and dial up internet.
Beer Baron
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I don't know what the top thing is,
Jesus Christ
Brian Earl Spilner
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I am a milleniial and I remember the following:

Phones like in the OP
Life before the internet
Life before cellphones
Car phones
Playing outside
Ogre09
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Thanks BB, but you can call me Ogre .
Kate Beckett
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I know what both of those are.
Ogre09
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I think it has something to do with checks or credit cards...
COOL LASER FALCON
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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.

kinda my point. if gen x breaks somewhere around 1981-1982 then there is a very real split with kids from '82-'90 versus those born after 1990 or so. They likely all have older siblings that are gen x or their childhood friends did. Whereas kids born after 1990 are generally the oldest sibling and their teen years are dominated by social media.
The ones leading the millennial charge like Queen Millennial Lena Dunham are currently late 20s and early 30s. I'd say the later you're born, the more likely you are to have millennial characteristics, but that's not what really matters. Generations are defined by the mass. Just like someone who is 60 and actually has a plan for retirement is still a Baby Boomer even though they don't share a lot of the characteristics.

Consensus on when the Millennial generation starts is early 80s. I don't like it anymore than you, but we are millennials.
Diamond Geezer
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IGAS
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Beer Baron
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Didn't the term "millennial" come about simply because people born in 1982 happened to turn 18 in the year 2000? That's pretty arbitrary. Culturally I'd say most people born in the mid-80s have much more in common with people born in the early 80's than with people born in the early 90's.
Pollo Libre
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Thank the good lord HEY-ZOOS I was born in '79
Duncan Idaho
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I don't know what the top thing is,
Jesus Christ


The credit card system was down a few months ago at a local restaurant. So they busted out the knucklebusters. It was pretty funny watching the young one stare in disbelief at the carbon copy reciepts they were getting back.
Brian Earl Spilner
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The split between "early millenials" and "late millenials" should be determined by how many songs you can name from the New Kids on the Block or the Backstreet Boys.
 
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