Gen z gen x ect

[Ds8and9]

Why do we use these terms we never used to. It pisses me of. When it's mentioned on a post I have to look it up. I forget 10 mins later and have to look again. Yes I know that's a me problem. But still pisses me off 😬

Oh I was never taught that

People try to put us d-down
(talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around
(talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold
(talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old
(talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

The Who - My Generation - 1965

I'm Gen X though, so I don't give a shit about nothing. Get Nirvana on, shut up.. bovvered.

Yes, same. This is not new. I read the Coupland novel as an undergraduate student.

I get irritated by them too. I can never remember the exact cut-offs for them all but IIRC my parents are slightly too old to be baby boomers and I'm slightly too young. I've only heard them used regularly in the last few years and have to look them up regularly especially Gen Z / Millenial.

I knew of baby boomers. Then a few years back heard talk of millennials. I knew I couldn't be either so looked it up. Apparently I'm Gen X, but hadn't heard mention of it until I hit my 50s!
I find it strange that DH is a boomer and both my DCs are Gen Z. I thought they'd be millennials having been born at the turn of the millennium. But apparently millennials were born in the previous millennium 🤯

I hate the gen x thing too op because i can never figure out what it means...same as cis etc i cant figure that out either. And all the ND and ASD talk, its confusing.

I do. My parents (who were the silent generation) used to speak about the Baby Boomers in less than appealing terms, eg less hardworking etc, and say people born after the war were different as they’d had different experiences - tale as old as time! So yes, I certainly knew those when I was fairly young.

Generation X was used a lot around the time of the novel I remember.

But I understood them all to be marketing terms really, or for any purpose eg polling that requires groups of people to be generalised somehow.

The term Generation X was surely popularised (not invented) by Douglas Coupland. You may be too young to remember, but it's been around for decades.

The terms probably arose because we're seeing greater generational differences, although much of that may stem from wider changes in the world.

Broadly I agree with you: people can't be lumped in together based on a crude reckoning of their age. It's a manufactured convenience for marketers and social commentators.

When I was a teenager Gen X and Baby Boomers etc had slightly different cut offs to what they have now. That is the problem I have. I was never a Boomer but sometimes articles have Boomers being born up to 1968.
It is logical as to why Boomers were called Boomers - the baby boom after WWII. And the Lost Generation being born from 1880 to 1900- to coincide with the huge percentage of our population of young men who were killed in WWI.
The Millenials makes sense too - born around the turn of the century.
Some things do not make sense at all.
The generations have become shorter in length in recent times - which is not accurate to real life as generations have been leaving home older, having kids older etc. If anything the catagories should be lengthening from 17 years to 25 years.

I thought millennials became adults at the turn of the century? So born from 1982 onwards (to whenever Gen Z starts)

Maybe the names are what they are when they are adults, which would explain Zoomers

As I'm on the cusp of the Boomer/Gen X cut off I think it's all a bit silly . I don't feel I have much in common with people born in 1946 or 1980. I certainly don't remember the Sixties and I was drowning in nappies in the Nineties.

It's the cutoffs I can't remember.

I also find than I'm gen x but my younger brother is millennial but our experiences are more similar than my older cousin who is gen x but at the start rather than the end.

Pisses you OFF*. OFF OFF OFF

And where on earth have you been?! These terms have been used for decades.

Dyslexia Dyslexia dyslexia

Learning difficulties learning difficulties.

And clearly under a rock

The UK baby boom was earlier than the US. So when we were younger and pre social media, when US discourse hadn't dominated English speaking culture to the same degree, we did have a different date range for Baby Bommers.

I'm classed as a millennial born in 84, yet so is someone born in 1996. I left school in 2001, yet someone supposedly in my generation only started school in 2001. They then left school in 2013, well my second dc started school in 2013. Yet we are allegedly the same generation? Even though our childhood/school life was nothing alike as it was different times.

This has been a thing, I think the Boomers made it up in the 60s. I'm born in 1995, so I'm either a young millennial or old gen z, depending on who you ask.

Zoomer = Z+Boomer, apparently they're called that because they reflect how the baby boomers were when they were young

It is logical as to why Boomers were called Boomers - the baby boom after WWII.
So 1964 is seen as just after 1945?

i think it started in the 60s or 70s, became more talked about recently. i'm gen z.

@Martinii yeah, i'm 20 and i'm gen z, my sister is 26 and gen z, but 13 year olds are also gen z?