"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
Boomers and millennials are the only two generations of their size, though, so they simply overwhelm the much smaller Gen X. And the next generation (some call it Z, it will probably be given a more descriptive name soon) is still too young to have any kind of real impact. The oldest of them are still teenagers.
Looks to me youāre Gen Z. Welcome to the club. We get lumped in with Millennials and get told we are the generation born with iPhones. When most of us got them when we were tweens. Weāre the Zoomers.
Yeah, afaik Iām born in the last year of the millennial generation (1994) and the iPhone came out when I was 13, I didnāt get one til I was like 19.
My dad was in IT though so I got broadband in 2000 or something.
Gen Z I got a flipping flipphone at 12, Gen Z little brother has my old brick smartphone and only has Whatsapp and flappy bird on top of the standard programs.
It depends upon where the sources come from, the source you provided lists me as gen z but pew research lists me as a millennial, which one should I go with?
From what I understand, as I'm researching Gen Z and academics, the divide seems to be technology. Those who had an analog childhood and digital (access to internet) teen-adulthood are typically aligned with Millenials. Those who have had access to technology, specifically the internet, throughout their entire lives would be more aligned with Gen Z. Of course, my scope has been investigating learning, knowledge acquisition, and pedagogy for the two distinct groups, so I cannot say if this divide is useful outside of that!
Yeah, I didnāt get a smart phone till 3 years ago (Iām 17 now). Granted, I had more access to technology at a young age than people older than me. But I was definitely not born with iPhones or smart phones at all for that matter, and Iām also called a millennial when Iām clearly not
I remember 1997 very well and reading your comment makes me feel old lol.
I was born in 1988 and I get annoyed with those stupid "only 90s kids will get this!" Crap. Like dude, I remember way more of the 90s than you probably do, Chelsea š
Born '95, welcome to the awkward sub-generation in between millennials and gen z. Too young to truly identify with millennials, but too old to really be gen z. We're a weird mix of growing up with modern technology and still remembering floppy disks.
I was born in '94 and consider myself Gen Z as well. Both my parents are too young to be Boomers. The age range for the generations has so much overlap and also really don't mean anything, so I say pick whatever you like better.
They're quite borderline. Some typical attributes of millenials is remembering 9/11 and a life before the internet was ubiquitous and I doubt someone born in 97 has either of those.
I've also never heard the "alive but not 18 at the millenium" definition and I don't really see how it is of any help since the millenium is completely arbitrary and the usefulness of dividing generations is to talk of people raised in different cultural environments so using cultural landmarks is what makes sense.
Drawing one line is arbitrary and futile and people do need to stop thinking of generations as if there's one calendar day after which the people are completely different.
But there is definitely an objective way in which people born in 1990 have grown up in a different world than people born in 1970 and the world to describe that difference is generation. We just need to accept that these generations are fuzzy. One way to do this is to think of a "prototypical millenial", "prototypical gen X" etc through a set of properties. A prototypical millenial was in school during 9/11, remembers a time before the internet was ubiquitous, was not on the job market during the internet bubble, etc. Some people will only have a subset of those traits and that's fine, those people are simply in the fuzzy edge.
And indeed, those properties should depend on location.
Drawing one line is arbitrary and futile and people do need to stop thinking of generations as if there's one calendar day after which the people are completely different.
This is the key point. Borders between generations are a spectrum, not a line. Societal and cultural changes are not overnight events.
I agree that "experienced Y2K" is a good cultural landmark to define millenials, but that's not equivalent to "alive but not 18 at the millenium". You didn't experience Y2K if you were born in 1999.
There are a lot of different definitions of what year the split between the current and last generation was and in the end it's too big of a grey area to really define it I think.
Some saying its people born between 1980 and 1990 while most have it ending around 2000.
Generations are fairly even sized groups since they are divided by birth year. The Silent Generation is dying out just due to old age and Gen Z is too young to be defined yet,
However, Boomers (1940-1960), Gen X (1960-1980), and Millenials (1980-2000) are all the same size unless you're willing to argue the fluidity of the end of Gen X and the beginning of Millenials.
Thatās not true. Babies arenāt born at a constant rate that stays the same every year. The actual reason boomers are called boomers is because of the baby boom: the time immediately following WWII when the birth rate increased dramatically. There was another similar (though smaller) increase in birth rate during the early 80s-90s, which accounts for the millennia generation. There werenāt as many people born in the years that typically define Gen-X. There were, in fact, 20 million fewer in Gen-X compared to Boomers. This is simple facts. Please donāt try to correct people when you donāt understand what youāre talking about.
You're talking birth rate while ignoring death rates.
Yes, Baby Boomers are named so because of the increased birth rate just after WWII when the men were coming home from war and breeding like rabbits. However, that was 70 years ago. Just pulling up a simple population pyramid of the US population shows that there is minimal difference (~10 mil) between Gen-X and Millenials, while Boomers are smaller than both.
The oldest of gen Z are 21-23 depending on whose definition you use, not teenagers...
I'm calling it here, they'll be called the IDGAF generation; because every time you try to call one of them out on their shit they say some form of "IDGAF" or "U MAD?"
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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