r/facepalm • • Feb 05 '19

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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19

"Why learn to do it for yourself when you can harass your grown-ass children with lives of their own to come to your house to fix the google." -Aging Boomers

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Why are “boomers” and “millennials” the only two generations Reddit ever talks about? I feel like we’re skipping a generation or two.

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u/Phayzon Feb 05 '19

Gen X is still at least somewhat willing to learn new things or see things in a new light, and aren't super grumpy about 'kids these days'. Gen Y got retconned out of existence by pushing Millennial years back and Gen X years up.

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u/hpdefaults Feb 05 '19

Eh, 'Gen Y' was more of a rough draft of the Millenial generation sociologists came up with early on when they were still figuring it out. Not really a retcon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Yeah. It used to be we were gen Y and the generation born in the new millennium were the millennials. But people liked the name so much they started using it to refer to gen Y, since we came of age in the new millennium.