That is what I think about when thinking about Gen X. I have clear examples because I’m myself in the millennial range, my (much) older brother is Gen X and my parents are boomers. I’d never lump my bro with the boomers and I consider gen X as a whole pretty chill. They’re all the bands I grew up listening to and carried the bulk of what made the 90s great. Boomers have fine individuals but as a whole they’re nasty.
I’m from 1980, so technically Gen X, but I’ve always associated more with millennials. My first phone (after I moved out of my parents’ house where we had landline) was a Nokia 3210 and I got my first email account in 1996.
It makes much more sense when a generation boundary is marked by some sort of significant societal shift. Like Boomers are people born after WWII ended. I guess Gen X kinda makes sense being defined as a generation that grew up after the civil rights act and the establishment of rock & roll. But it seems like there should also be something between that and the internet. Maybe the advent of video games. Someone who grew up with video games and VCRs in the 80s has a pretty different experience from someone who grew up in the 70s.
I’ve always been told the defining turn from boomers to Gen X was the end of the boom. Readily available birth control for men and women made family planning the norm. Gen X just doesn’t get a fancy name because they never got there “define with this” phenomena
Pew and a bunch of other think tanks are moving past generational studies as it seems that you are correct that you have more in common with people within 5 years of your age than people in your “generation”.
You need studies to demonstrate these effects in a scientific manner so yes/no as it could be done by a scholastic institution if it wasn’t done by think tanks.
As a person born nearly a decade after you, I pride my generation (Gen Y/millennial) as also experiencing life before computers and the internet in your home, but still developing (sort of naturally) with all that (but still remembering what it felt like to be really and truly bored). Gen Zers born after a similar gap as between me and those born later, don’t remember life before the internet or 9/11.
AFAICT Gen X should really just be split into Boomers and early millennials.
I’m a late gen X (1978) and do not associate with boomers at all.
We’re basically millennials before the internet.
That is what I think about when thinking about Gen X. I have clear examples because I’m myself in the millennial range, my (much) older brother is Gen X and my parents are boomers. I’d never lump my bro with the boomers and I consider gen X as a whole pretty chill. They’re all the bands I grew up listening to and carried the bulk of what made the 90s great. Boomers have fine individuals but as a whole they’re nasty.
I’m also a late Gen X. Please, please, PLEASE don’t group us with Boomers. We’re nothing like them and proud of it.
Also GenX. Fuck everyone that isn’t my generation or I don’t know personally.
Gen X reporting.
Meh.
I’m from 1980, so technically Gen X, but I’ve always associated more with millennials. My first phone (after I moved out of my parents’ house where we had landline) was a Nokia 3210 and I got my first email account in 1996.
You, my 1980 cousin, are Xennial! We have an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials?wprov=sfla1
See you in the third act :)
It makes much more sense when a generation boundary is marked by some sort of significant societal shift. Like Boomers are people born after WWII ended. I guess Gen X kinda makes sense being defined as a generation that grew up after the civil rights act and the establishment of rock & roll. But it seems like there should also be something between that and the internet. Maybe the advent of video games. Someone who grew up with video games and VCRs in the 80s has a pretty different experience from someone who grew up in the 70s.
I’ve always been told the defining turn from boomers to Gen X was the end of the boom. Readily available birth control for men and women made family planning the norm. Gen X just doesn’t get a fancy name because they never got there “define with this” phenomena
I was born in 77. I am the Star Wars generation.
'78
Space Invaders
https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/generations-age/
Pew and a bunch of other think tanks are moving past generational studies as it seems that you are correct that you have more in common with people within 5 years of your age than people in your “generation”.
They needed think tanks to figure that one out?
You need studies to demonstrate these effects in a scientific manner so yes/no as it could be done by a scholastic institution if it wasn’t done by think tanks.
As a person born nearly a decade after you, I pride my generation (Gen Y/millennial) as also experiencing life before computers and the internet in your home, but still developing (sort of naturally) with all that (but still remembering what it felt like to be really and truly bored). Gen Zers born after a similar gap as between me and those born later, don’t remember life before the internet or 9/11.