08-03-2020, 05:14 PM
(08-03-2020, 03:03 PM)2Legit2Quit Wrote:(07-30-2020, 07:34 PM)RadianMay Wrote: Here comes the old debate of whether people born around the turn of the millennium are millennials or “zoomers”. I’m currently 19, (born 2001) and although S&H suggest that I should be a millennial, it doesn’t feel right that I’m in the same generation as 39 year olds. Even worse, I cannot imagine current 16 year olds (born in 2004) to be in the same generation either. At the same time, I don’t believe that the 3T ended until perhaps 2017 or even has just ended this year. Does anyone here share this cognitive dissonance?
I agree: People 22/23 and under today are definitely *not* Millenials, they are Zoomers.
In hindsight, people born in the late 70s through to about 1990 share a common childhood, and seem to be very similar.
From about 1990 on, there is a different flavor of millenial.
People born from 1997 on onwards are definitely a different generation.
Maybe a good updated generation list looks something like this:
Boomer 1945-1960
X 1961-1976
Millenial 1977-1992
Zoomer 1993-2009
Generation means different things to different people, and the marker police have really been out in force since technology kicked-in in earnest. In a way, I understand this, because the entire concept of "shared social experience" seems to have a decreasing shelf life as time passes. How we all interact is constantly in flux -- especially now that the social environment is often dictated by what aps we use and how we use them. OK, but does that really create generational boundaries or merely a series of social boundaries separate from the less frenetic economic, political and familial boundaries that constitute life?
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