Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

It doesn't seem polite to vote for my own generation, but it doesn't seem right to vote against myself either. I think I will abstain. Yes, that's the ticket!

Typical generational apathy and indecision

so, are we voting for favorite, or most hated?

same thing, in this case..

I read a really bad late novel by Edith Wharton (Twilight Sleep, 1927) which is 100% on the theme of "this younger generation of people is feckless and useless, what will a world in their incapable hands be like"

It's actually the other way round in some of Henry Green's post war novels: like, here we are (the younger generation) having to struggle all the hours God sends, doing crappy office jobs, having to put up with rationing etc when you lot (the older generation) got to enjoy yourselves drinking and dancing and having sex with one another in the 20s and 30s.

as a millennial I'd like to officially disavow the generation that refers to Larry Graham as "Drake's uncle"

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/16/drakes-uncle-leads-tributes-at-prince-memorial-service-in-minneapolis/

everybody check out this song it is PERFECT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI

i tried to sit through it, had to turn audio off quick, then i tried just reading it, and i skimmed and got to the participation trophy line and i was just reminded how fucked up capitalism is for the 15th time today

who is micah tyler and why is he cloning himself so much and also why does he wear so many hats

i don't know but people keep posting it on facebook. a group of 3-4 people keep posting parody videos about millennials and the guy who hates vegans and people who do yoga

some ppl just hella thirsty for the approval of their shitty elders man

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Lines up with board demographics.

haha eff baby boomers

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Some days, I just like to sit back and watch my generation march briskly into oblivion. We are gonna the meanest and the crankiest. Can't wait.

http://i.imgur.com/TZihEZg.png

millennials do love their boycotting too much. that said i'll bet the dude in the band cheryl mentioned probably sucks and deserves it.

I don't know how Snapchat is supposed to work. The last new band I got into was Spoon. But damn, watching the Pokemon Go explosion fire up my peers like it was Elvis shaking his pelvis on Milton Berle made me realize that sun has already set on the Generation Xpire.

intimate sing-a-long with a bunch of washed up gen-x'ers sounds like an ok time, or more likely, a slice of hell on earth

Depends on how much molly is there.

i feel older than the people who are younger than me

I think at least one of my parents listens to the college rock satellite radio station or the "alternative" one that is a weird cross section of the 90s through present. It's confusing. I don't think my dad knows any artists and definitely doesn't buy any music anymore. I got him a Bluetooth speaker and then walked him through installing the satellite radio app on his phone.

My mom is really into Fallout Boy or something like that?!?

Baby boomers are weird

my parents are resolute dorks they don't even try to feign an interest in indie culture

but they both has smartphones and i, of course, do not. except the one with just wifi i use for tinder.

*have

my parents don't know anything about any cultures! I am pretty sure my dad literally flipped between stations until he found one he found pleasing.

my dad definitely is way into his iPhone, my mom kind of begrudgingly has one now and loves to text me emoji. it might be easier than the full sentences she prefers due to the rheumatoid arthritis.

my parents don't even know that my brother is a hipster. they think his slovenly outfits are a function of his thrift/stupidity

my son is a hipster: the treeship's brother story

Varg on boomers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2nIZyiH48

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/04/two-types-of-millennials.html?mid=facebook_nymag

As it turns out, there are good reasons for this. Old Millennials, as I’ll call them, who were born around 1988 or earlier (meaning they’re 29 and older today), really have lived substantively different lives than Young Millennials, who were born around 1989 or later

the Census Bureau’s definition (born 1982–2000) or Pew’s (about 1981–1997)

iirc marketing companies have just used "up to 35 years old" or somesuch for the last few years, without changing the number. So you can age out of being a millenial! :)

why does the census bureau use a made-up bullshit marketing category

I'd trust them more, considering they have some ability to track birth rates, demographics, income, etc.
so any group they've thrown together at least creates a demographic out of statistical commonalities

if they do that, yes; but then there's still the name and all its baggage

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

every generational label is covered in baggage

especially the Baggage Generation (1856-1877) !

i was literally having this distinction between old and young millennial conversation with my wife this weekend.

There's a real divide between the kids who grew up with a computer in their house and the kids who grew up with a smartphone in their pockets.

i think not being a true digital native; remembering having to phone friends on the landline of their home, or go round to their house and knock their door to see that they're in; remembering not having the internet; remembering making plans to meet people and then either you or them not being there because there was some complication and you had no way of contacting each other; and fairly crucially not having a social media account of any type until you were in your 20s, and scant evidence of your teenage years existing online is a very significant difference.

xp. yeah, not having a smartphone until your late 20s vs having a smart phone when you were 12 is also v significant

none of us are true digital natives, we're still a few years off from having neural implants

instead of jacking in, we're stuck with jacking off

I guess the equivalent for Gen X'ers is Old Gen X wouldn't have grown up with (or at least not until their teens) digital watches/VCRs/home computers whereas Young Gen X (i.e. me) would have at least known people who had them or seen them at school at a young age. E.g. I was 5 when the ZX81 came out vs 15 for someone born in 1966.

people in my peer group (born '81) and a little younger are fascinated with drawing these lines to differentiate their 80s/early 90s childhoods from the late 90s/early 00s childhoods of other people they know/observe. i'm not immune to it but it's the kind of observation about which everything that could be said got said five years ago and there don't need to be any more articles about it imho.

but the internal gen-x divides fascinate me! thinking about my own extended family, where my boomer mother's sibling cohort had kids over just a huge range of time. so my reference points for "gen xers" range from people who are now like 57 to people who are now 37, unless i count too. their childhoods were probably very similar in tons of ways (esp. the existence of the media monoculture, and a certain continuity of the general socio-technical apparatus, versus the techno-centric changes people articulate with millennial groups A B and C) but it's nonetheless a damned broad span of time!

I've usually divided Millennials into "Generation Y" AKA "Millennials old enough to remember when they weren't being called Millennials" (1981-1989) and "Generation Pokemon" (1990-whenever the cutoff date actually is).

people in my peer group (born '81)

my man

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