Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

[dot@noc.social]

@thordis too old to be gen z, too young to be millenial

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@thordis

Based on the personality descriptions I read in Newsweek* a few decades back, my older siblings are clearly Boomers, while I am a leading edge X'er.

* Or a similar magazine.

[ton@m.tzyl.eu]

@thordis none of us are marketing shorthand labels here, no.

[crcollins@writing.exchange]

@quixoticgeek

I prefer Generation Jones for us later born Boomers.

@marjolica @thordis

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@thordis

I am 68 and in my day and age we did not have these labels to identify you by age so I m NONE OF THIS.

You can group me into some mass group because of my age but I am neurodivergent so the label DOES NOT FIT.

If you want ot know what age we are, I am 68

[u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing]

@marjolica @thordis this must be a regional or foreign assessment of things. Even into the early 60s there was rationing and food shortages, everything was in black and white, people were wearing ex-forces demob clothing. Houses were missing and bomb craters were in every street. It certainly wasn’t a time of ‘boom’. It’d be a significant time before any rebuilding could be afforded and the onset of ‘swinging London’ in the late 60s was more a public relations effort than anyone’s actual reality. Maybe in other countries it was, but certainly not in the real world of post-war Britain.

[tsyum@thepit.social]

@thordis I'm curious to know (if we can know) which generation is the most privacy-concerned and less likely to answer the poll

[zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net]

@Datterich @catsalad @thordis @IanAMartin

Generation Y is what they called Millennials before they called them Millennials

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@u0421793 @thordis but there was a baby boom after WW2 ended.
Lots of people, who had interrupted family life because of the war married or just reunited and had children so the birth rate rocketed. Hence the term Baby Boomer.
I'm one of those children.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@ShadSterling

Could be. Gen X were mostly too young to vote against the new wave of neoliberalism in the 80s, but still hung onto some of the benefits before they were completely stripped away for the Millennials.

Gen X is also much smaller than both the Boomer and Millennial generations so that might be a factor.

@contrasocial @hajni @thordis

[clem@theforkiverse.com]

@szczurtorebkowy @thordis also seen us called "the lucky ones" and "the Oregon Trail Generation"

[expertplus@mementomori.social]

I am one of 10%.

[meanderingok@mastodon.social]

@ShadSterling @contrasocial @ReggieHere @hajni @thordis
Gen X is a pretty small group comparatively. It was the effect of the latter Vietnam era combined with more mothers joining the workforce. We were truly the latchkey generation. There have been studies attributing the crime dip of the early to mid 1990s to Gen X being so much smaller than the other gens during the prime "crime" ages. I still know of some paying off their student debt, too, sadly. We're an odd group, overall!

[david_megginson@mstdn.ca]

@thordis I choose boomer, but I could also be genX Depending on where you put the cutoff.

It's a bit ridiculous calling myself a "boomer" given that I was still in kindergarten when the Beatles broke up and I share none of their growing-up experiences, but marketers love oversimplifying things.

[paburu@social.linux.pizza]

@thordis 1984 here

[u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing]

@marjolica @thordis I bet more babies were born during or shortly after the early 70s nightly power cuts

[bbbhltz@framapiaf.org]

@thordis standard issue millennial

[leadore@sunny.garden]

@david_megginson

Yeah the boomer designation really covers two generations with two very different life experiences. The ones at the older end are old enough to be parents of those of us at the younger end, and I don't relate to them/their experiences at all.

We are actually "Jonesers" or "Generation Jones": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

@thordis

[proficisci90@katholisch.social]

@thordis Millenial, born 1990

[snappyhome@theforkiverse.com]

@thordis
I picked Gen X, but really I'm one of those middling Oregon Trail people who fits cleanly in neither the X nor the Millennial box. Ultimately I have decided that the dividing line should be century of high school graduation, which is why I choose as I did.