ellebee said:

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TresPuertas said:

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Well, I've just found out that I hate myself.

Damn.

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Well then you are probably more of a gen x then.

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Can I be a gen x'er too? I'm on the tail end of the millennial generation being born in '90. Grew up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere and didn't have internet till I was a junior in high school.

At least everyone can agree that the generation that followed the millennials are way worse. Right?

TresPuertas said:

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Wait a minute, so if I was born in 1980 I'm considered a millenial?

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19811997

the 79-84 time window is the one where most people can't decide on the generation

Generation X. George Masnick, of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the timeframe of 1965 to 1984, in part because it's a neat 20-year period. He also calls it the "baby bust," mocking "[p]undits on Madison Avenue and in the media" that call it Generation X. Ha ha, tough luck.


Millennials. In October 2004, researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss called Millennials "the next great generation," which is funny. They define the group as "as those born in 1982 and approximately the 20 years thereafter." In 2012, they affixed the end point as 2004.

I've seen it defined as those who graduated HS in 2000 or later, however with all generations, there are some transition times that are hard to define. I was born in '83. We didn't get the internet at my house until I was a Jr or Sr in high school. Cell phones were mainly a thing you had in your car for emergencies. I think that people who were born even 3-5 years later had much different experiences due to the technological shifts that occurred during our childhoods. Fast forward another 5 years and kids who grew up with smart phones are even different.

I'm smack dab in the middle of the millenial generation.

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What ever happened to Generation Y?

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they have pretty much dumped that designation.

Furlock Bones said:

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amercer said:

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What ever happened to Generation Y?

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they have pretty much dumped that designation.

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Y = millennial

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/Generation-Y.html

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Because children born during this time period have had constant access to technology (computers, cell phones) in their youth, they have required many employers to update their hiring strategy in order to incorporate updated forms of technology. Also called millennials, echo boomers, internet generation, iGen, net generation.

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I mean, i had an Atari 2600, and later a Nintendo and SNES, but i never used a cell phone until 2001 (and i actually talked on it, didn't text all the time), never used the internet until my senior year of high school, and didn't have an email address until I enrolled at A&M. Hell, I filled out my A&M application (as well as many scholarship apps) on a typewriter.

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Hell, I filled out my A&M application (as well as many scholarship apps) on a typewriter.

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same

Ultimately, I don't think it really matters. Most of us are millennials by name but I'm sure most of us don't have that typical millennial mindset. So who cares if our DOB falls into the millennial range?

cuz the media loves to talk about you and you get to navel gaze 24/7

Interesting article. Being born in 79, I can definitely relate.

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People my age (born in 88) were basically the generation that saw the world change during our childhood / adolescence. As kids, there was no cell phones, no internet, no smart phones.

Mid-to-late 90's is when the internet really started making its way into most homes, and cell phones became common, what, around 2001-ish?

When I drove up to college in 2006, I had a map of Texas with me.

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Mapquest print out for me in 2005.

Well, technically 2004 when I first visited college station, didn't need a map after that when I actually made the drive to go.

What if I road my bike to an old video rental place because we didn't have blockbuster?

How about if your 1st video game console was a Super Nintendo?

According to your little article, I'm Generation Y. Like I said earlier, didn't grew up with internet. Didn't have a cell phone till I went to college etc.

Not true. How do you think they post all of those Taliban and ISIS videos

The got internet in 2012

Behavior isn't a reliable indicator. I know people in their 40's and up who are more obsessed with social media than most college students. Probably has something to do with the fact that it isn't all novel and exciting to people who grew up with the internet.

What about Sale of the Century?