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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's apparently a name for the generation born in the late '70s and early '80s
Weve all heard about millennials, and the generation that came before them, commonly known as Generation X. While most descriptions paint some pretty stark differences between those two generations, some have noticed that people born roughly between the years of 1977 and 1985 dont seem to fit neatly in either category.
Writing for Business Insider, Marleen Stollen and Gisella Wolf explain the problem thusly:
The years of our birth lie between two huge generations. We had to bridge the divide between an analog childhood and digital adulthood and we are reminded of this day after day. We live with one foot in Generation X and one in Generation Y [aka millenials]. This is an uncomfortable position to keep up and we arent fond of it.
Well, now there is a new term floating around to describe this so-called microgeneration. These folks are now being referred to as xennials (a combination of Gen X and millennial).
Read more: http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/simplemost/there-s-apparently-a-name-for-the-generation-born-in/article_b9d13701-40c7-5d71-9369-6b75981f53d2.html
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)This explains me well:
As we were growing up, technology matured along side us, the Business Insider authors wrote. We had time to get used to it and were still young enough to feel right at home with it.
Generations do not make a radical switch just because a year passes.
doc03
(35,454 posts)1965 and 1977?
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)kcr
(15,329 posts)The description sounds just like me, and I'm a Gen-Xer. Part of the reason our generation is so small is the arbitrary dates given make the timeline for our generation smaller than the Boomers and Millenials. Plus we're a bust to begin with. They should have started the dates for Millenials later. My son is at the tag end of the date for Millenials and he's a teenager. It's ridiculous that he's in the same generation as people near 40.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)Speak for yourself:
Why Generation X Might Be Our Last, Best Hope
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/08/why-generation-x-might-be-our-last-best-hope/amp
kcr
(15,329 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Concepts such as "people born after year Y always had the internet and social networking" glosses over the fact that children and teenagers growing up in various parts of the country and in various socioeconomic strata have very different access to and familiarity with these things. "Gen X" and "Gen Y" are stereotypes based on age and are just as bogus as other stereotypes based on broad correlations of gender, race, language, etc. with other personal characteristics.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)I work with a whole bunch of the 1980-1984 cohort and I have a lot of trouble seeing them as anything other than purebred Generation X.
Take my Gen X Quiz, don't worry it's short.
Question One: Did you have a cell phone in high school?
Question Two: There is no question two.
If you answered "No" to the first and only question, congratulations here is your Nirvana t-shirt and your choice of a Beavis and Butthead or Daria DVD box set.
moriah
(8,311 posts)Nothing wrong with Nirvana, but "Something I Can Never Have" from Pretty Hate Machine....
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)If you don't remember where you were when the Challenger happened, you're not Gen X.
Similarly, if you don't remember where you were when 9/11 happened, you're not a millennial (you're Gen Z)