Xennials: The Elite Generation

MayDay10

PJ_Soul said:

rgambs said:

PJ_Soul said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

1984, gen x or millennial?

Very solidly millennial.

I don't think someone who was an adult before cell phones could text can be considered very solidly millennial.
We are millennial, but only barely. 

I think technology has outstripped culture and larger world events as the defining separation of generations now.

It's not really a matter of opinion... IMO, lol. Someone born in 1984 just is a Millennial, and not even really on the cusp. Millennials are now in their early to late 30s. Just because someone decided that Millennials have to have been a kid when cell phones modernized doesn't make it so. I think it's pretty weird that people are just randomly changing the definitions of generations after the fact. I also find it weird that people are attempting to define generations by technological comfort, because that is not common to certain generations at all starting with Gen X. Pretty much everyone I know who is my age (Gen X) are every bit as comfortable with technology as any Millennial is, mainly because we are all smack dab in the middle of our careers and wouldn't be effective if we didn't know all that shit, so I'm not buying this strange new defining of generations based on that.

Its not 'technological comfort'.  Within a few years, the way humans interacted with each other was revolutionized like never before (or since).  There is a group of people that saw both ends on it while developing their social circles and skills in a ripe age bracket.  It is that person's opinion that this pocket of people are a unique sub-set of a generation, and I completely agree.  

As someone said, I went from calling girls on a rotary phone to chatting on AIM within a short period of time when I was still a 'youth', middle school-high school-college aged.

rgambs

PJ_Soul said:

rgambs said:

PJ_Soul said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

1984, gen x or millennial?

Very solidly millennial.

I don't think someone who was an adult before cell phones could text can be considered very solidly millennial.
We are millennial, but only barely. 

I think technology has outstripped culture and larger world events as the defining separation of generations now.

It's not really a matter of opinion... IMO, lol. Someone born in 1984 just is a Millennial, and not even really on the cusp. Millennials are now in their early to late 30s. Just because someone decided that Millennials have to have been a kid when cell phones modernized doesn't make it so. I think it's pretty weird that people are just randomly changing the definitions of generations after the fact. I also find it weird that people are attempting to define generations by technological comfort, because that is not common to certain generations at all starting with Gen X. Pretty much everyone I know who is my age (Gen X) are every bit as comfortable with technology as any Millennial is, mainly because we are all smack dab in the middle of our careers and wouldn't be effective if we didn't know all that shit, so I'm not buying this strange new defining of generations based on that.

It is all opinion lol

It's not like generations are officially defined by scientific method lol

Somebody comes up with a term for people born in a certain (widely varying) time period and enough people agree that it sticks around, but there's no rigid criteria or certification like your tone suggests. 
As Mayday already said...
It isn't about comfort with using certain technologies, it's about how we relate to technology and how it shapes us as people.  My Dad is 64 and has been completely comfortable with technology since it exploded in the 90's, but he grew up in a house that didn't even have TV until middle school.  They were obviously poor lol

You may have adapted to social media wonderfully, but do you really think that you belong in a generation with someone who had social media accounts before puberty?  Do you not see what a huge difference that makes in a person's development?

rgambs

http://time.com/4131982/generations-names-millennials-founders/

PJ_Soul

MayDay10 said:

PJ_Soul said:

rgambs said:

PJ_Soul said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

1984, gen x or millennial?

Very solidly millennial.

I don't think someone who was an adult before cell phones could text can be considered very solidly millennial.
We are millennial, but only barely. 

I think technology has outstripped culture and larger world events as the defining separation of generations now.

It's not really a matter of opinion... IMO, lol. Someone born in 1984 just is a Millennial, and not even really on the cusp. Millennials are now in their early to late 30s. Just because someone decided that Millennials have to have been a kid when cell phones modernized doesn't make it so. I think it's pretty weird that people are just randomly changing the definitions of generations after the fact. I also find it weird that people are attempting to define generations by technological comfort, because that is not common to certain generations at all starting with Gen X. Pretty much everyone I know who is my age (Gen X) are every bit as comfortable with technology as any Millennial is, mainly because we are all smack dab in the middle of our careers and wouldn't be effective if we didn't know all that shit, so I'm not buying this strange new defining of generations based on that.

Its not 'technological comfort'.  Within a few years, the way humans interacted with each other was revolutionized like never before (or since).  There is a group of people that saw both ends on it while developing their social circles and skills in a ripe age bracket.  It is that person's opinion that this pocket of people are a unique sub-set of a generation, and I completely agree.  

As someone said, I went from calling girls on a rotary phone to chatting on AIM within a short period of time when I was still a 'youth', middle school-high school-college aged.

Yeah, I guess I'm saying that Gen Xers were a part of this group as well though. I know I saw both ends on it completely, and I'm solidly Gen X. I do not recognize this subset just because in my experience, that lines drawn for this subset just aren't accurate. They drew the line too late. It should be drawn somewhere in the early-mid 70s.

HughFreakingDillon

born 1974. 43 years old right now. Grew up on black and white dial tv. didn't get colour tv and cable until I was about 10. it was another long time after that we got our first VCR (my family was always way behind on technology because of finances). 

had a cell phone at 20. But I didn't get my first computer until I was 27, AFTER the new millenium. WAY behind the norm. and besides adult content and music, I have no real use for one anyway.

I got rid of my cell phone in my mid-20's and didn't get another one until this past November. I had never texted prior to November 2017. 

I am WAY behind on current technology because I simply don't give a shit. I used to be the one teaching my parents how to use all the electronics in the house, but now I'm pretty much in the same boat as they are. I'm in the "I don't want to learn about it, just make it work for me" crowd. 

there is some truth to the negative associations millenials get, but we have to remember it isn't their fault. they didn't spearhead this "it's all about me" philosphy. They learned this from their parents who TOLD them it was all about them. Their parents bubble wrapped them and they are products of that. you can't fault someone for how they were raised. 

Of course, all of the generalizations about any generation are just that, generalizations. But my wife has had to hire a number of millenials, and in many cases the attitude and work ethic are staggeringly different from ours. 

with some of them, there's no "can I have this day off?", it's "I won't be here on this day". They've learned the hard way that ain't gonna fly with Mrs. HFD. 
their parents schedule their doctor and dentist appointments for them. 
parents come to interviews with them. they even set the interview up for them. My wife learned very quickly that if a parent is calling, no interview for you. 

Thoughts_Arrive

At primary schools here young kids are learning coding. I have no idea wtf coding is.

Thoughts_Arrive

PJ Soul,  I am gen X. Don't deny it.

PJ_Soul

Thoughts_Arrive said:

PJ Soul,  I am gen X. Don't deny it.

I'm just referencing every single anything that defines when Gen Xers and Millennials were born. Hey, if you want to be Gen X even though you were born in 1984 have at it, lol.

hauntingfamiliar

As the 6 years younger sibling of a bunch of full fledged Gen Xers this article made me chuckle. I've always identified with Gen Xers but never completely... I was born in '77. Gen X used to end in '76 and I was considered Gen Y.... for a few years and then was lumped back into Gen X. Now I'm a Xennial! Lol Hell yeah! The description hit the nail on the head. Socialogical classification at it's best. I've been identified!

brianlux

Why, you young whippersnappers!

In my day, it was all one generation, Gen-ahtrah!

Annafalk

brianlux said:

Why, you young whippersnappers!

In my day, it was all one generation, Gen-ahtrah!

Hahaha

brianlux

Thanks you Anna!  Got any ahtrah?  Need ahtrah!

(No, actually we need rain!)