To think I'm neither gen x or a millennial?

[Spidder]

I know, I know; I shouldn't care. But this is the adult version of poring over your star sign.

Apparently gen x is 1965-1980. Then millennials are 1981_ 1995 , or something.

I was born on the cusp. I don't have much in common with x or mill. Kind of a mix of both really. I thought we were called gen y a few years ago, but now that's been given to those born after 1995.

So, I know I'm bu to care, but aibu to not think I'm x or millennial?

Dd refuses to accept xennial. I think it's perfect. Generational stereotype conversations re constant here as the ds's are quite scathing of the older ones in typical gen z way

In my office the the gen Zs have taken to ‘Ok boomer-ing’ the millennials - because the millennials are ‘totally unrealistic and idealistic like boomers’ (I am told as a gen Xer who has to break up these disputes). So there we are.

Far as I know Gen X runs from 67 (the year Douglas Copland’s characters were born) to end 1981.

Millennials (or gen Y) run 1982 (coming of age in the millennium) to end 1994.

Gen Z (or iGen) run from 1995 (the first year of kids who grew up fully digital - decided I think by a 2008 book called Growing up Digital) to... well we don’t know yet but I guess 2010ish

User133847 DH and I both Gen X had access to the internet in 1992 it was the Janet network which was a system only between Universities iand all a bit basic. I do remember being taught how to write web pages back in about 1997.

We do love technology though, he does mathematical modelling as part of his job and I used to teach how to search databases and use the internet when it was in its infancy to first years as a teaching assistant at University. We are tech heads I suppose.

I'm a solid proud Gen X (1971). I had an Atari game console, a Commodore 64 etc etc right up through the 1998 iMac and the first iPhone. I'd definitely say I had an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood but I grew up with the tech.

No, I think you're just a millennial (sorry!)

Everyone seems to think millennials are younger than we are - we are in our 30s now!

Defo remember life before Internet and mobile phones. Though I did get my first phone as a teenager.

The younger millennials or the ones that didn't get boring and grown up as young as me :o seem a lot more woke and identity politics obsessed which I struggle to get tbh. Although I did a bit of it at school - it just wasn't such a big deal.

I think one of the defining parts of my generation for me was the feeling that the Internet was "our space" - our parents weren't on there, it felt like a whole different world we could define how we wanted. Probably that's why the identity politics exploded for the younger ones.

The younger millennials or the ones that didn't get boring and grown up as young as me :o seem a lot more woke and identity politics obsessed which I struggle to get tbh.

Apparently one if the markets of xennials is they tend to be more conservative then millennials

I'm definitely a Xennial (82) as is my DP (79) - feel too old for Millennials but too young for Gen X, and also the analogue childhood / digital adulthood I think perfectly captures that small gap we fall into. But the fact that Gen Z are now calling Millenials Boomers is like because I consider myself far too young to be a boomer and yet to be honest I probably conflate millenials and Gen Z together as being 'young' and I'm not sure I really 'identify' with them - the whole gender identity thing being a classic case in point. I'm left of centre and very MN gender critical as it were so the fact that younger people probably think of me as hateful and also boomerish in attitude is a bit .

@Spidder it is actually not weird to define it. These are labels for demographic studies. I have seen studies on the generation alpha and they are about young children. The generation alpha are apparently the digital natives, compare to the gen z. They are the kids who who tablets and phones as toddlers and can swipe before they can read. They can also use Alexa before they can use any UI. It changes how they interact with technologies. I can see the change with my tow DC, gen alpha. DC1 has a tablet at 3 but reception didn’t give tablet homework. DC2 a bit younger and she got numbats and matheletics at reception. Friends children a tiny bit younger can turn on and off TV and music with voice assistance from when they can speak. It’s fascinating.

Yes but I'm not an xennial. I was born in 1988.

To be fair op is much more on the cusp than most people I've seen who like the xennial label. Most people I know who want to use it are born 1982-86!

Actually @BertieBotts you've pretty well summed up what I was trying to get at with the identity politics.

It's all made up by a marketing company anyway.

@Spidder

I'm fighting for skinny jeans. Mainly because I did baggy as a teen, then did bootcut. It feels wrong to buy clothes I threw out a few years ago. But I also remember being scathing of skinny jeans when they came out, because they reminded me of stays quo.

When skinny jeans first came out I thought they were only for skinny, young people and not for people my age at all. Now, I find it hard to imagine being in anything else. I'm always behind the fashions...

I'm a mid gen X so a 70s to early 80s young childhood, teen from early 80s and 20 from the early 90s. I really feel I had the best of times from those three time frames!

While I'm Gen X, I used the internet plenty through my mid-teens. Where the hell else would I find enough Babylon 5 theories to satisfy my obsession?

Yes but I'm not an xennial. I was born in 1988.
sorry I assumed you were same as OP.

I thought it was 1977-1983 ish

I always find these interesting because they rarely take into account regions. I’m definitely a millennial/Gen Y (born late 80s) but still remember rotary phones, having to type a paper on a typewriter in secondary and going to the library to use the Internet because we didn’t own a computer or printer. My evenings were spent riding my bike, going over a friend’s house and then going on the Internet, or playing The Sims in Secondary. I didn’t get a mobile until my last year of secondary because I had graduated early and was going to college. I remember MySpace being for teens and moving to Facebook because it was for college students then. Thinking back it was a pretty nice transition and I’m happy I had it that way than what Generation Z has to put up with.

I think most of the time Gen Y/ millennials are brought up they really mean Gen Z.

Yes but I'm not an xennial. I was born in 1988.

Millennials are late 80s, heck my sister is considered one and she was born in 93’.

I am Gen X. It is only in the last week that I have ever thought about it. I don't think anyone apart from sociologists cared about this thing before recently. Boomers were boomers because there was such an obvious social change , and there were so many of them. However I tend to be on the same wavelength as people born in the 70s and very early 80s. There were no screens, apart from TV, in my life until around 2000, if that is any indication.

You can't identify out of being a millennial by inventing a new category OP.

I mean I know it sucks being the 2nd most hated generation after the Boomers, but you just gotta suck it up

In my office the the gen Zs have taken to ‘Ok boomer-ing’ the millennials - because the millennials are ‘totally unrealistic and idealistic like boomers’ (I am told as a gen Xer who has to break up these disputes). So there we are.

As a solid GenX here I agree that the millenials and boomers share characteristics. That said there's a massive difference between the oldest Boomers (DM and her friends) and the youngest boomers (workmates just a few years older than me) in social outlook.

I'm generation x and having trouble accepting that millennials are adults already...

Ooooh this has made my day to be a Xennial. How do I pronounce it though? I assume 'zennial', is that going to piss off gen z?!

Yes! What am I? Summer 82 here.

@Marzipanfruit

Who the fuck actually cares or takes any notice of these labels?

Quite, just call yourself a prat for caring so much.

you're a prat for caring so much about what others care about 😜