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PeanutButterSmoothie · 2023-02-11T19:27:34+00:00

I was surprised to find out the other day that my sister (born Jan '81) is technically considered a millennial. She won't accept this as she, like myself, regards millennials as the hipster generation, revelling in wokeness etc. She remembers renting VHS tapes, owning a Sony cassette walkman, watching MTV, and the introduction of the world wide web. Gotta say I was surprised and my first thought is that lots of people in their early 40s probs don't regard themselves as millennials.

EsmeSusanOgg · 13/02/2023 12:52

Isbemorelikemeandbelesslikeyou · 11/02/2023 22:23

@EsmeSusanOgg @2Old2BABPpresenter

Seems 77 is Xennial?

No. 77 is comfortably Gen X

79, 80, 81 are the transitional years and sometimes called Xennial.

BigMandysBookClub · 13/02/2023 13:20

I fit into this category. Millennials are supposed to be defined by a childhood on the Web and using smartphones. I didn't get my first brick phone until 17 and never used the internet until about 15, so I'm not sure how that works.

I'm definitely more Gen X than Gen Y. I had older siblings, so Gen X culture big part I my childhood, plus I'm extremely cynical and hate authority. I probably have some values of Gen Y though because I didn't reap the benefits of the time and face similar material challenges to Gen Y.

GlasgowGal82 · 13/02/2023 13:27

TheIsaacs · 11/02/2023 20:08

To be boomers, your parents would have been 15 at the oldest when they had you. Baby boomers are born after the end of ww2, in the post war baby boom.

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You know that WW2 ended in mid-1945 right? It was perfectly normal for 18 and 19 year olds to be married and having their first babies in the 1960s.

hellosunshineagainxxx · 13/02/2023 13:35

BigMandysBookClub · 13/02/2023 13:20

I fit into this category. Millennials are supposed to be defined by a childhood on the Web and using smartphones. I didn't get my first brick phone until 17 and never used the internet until about 15, so I'm not sure how that works.

I'm definitely more Gen X than Gen Y. I had older siblings, so Gen X culture big part I my childhood, plus I'm extremely cynical and hate authority. I probably have some values of Gen Y though because I didn't reap the benefits of the time and face similar material challenges to Gen Y.

You're wrong. Millennials are defined by an analogue childhood largely similar to the previous generations with the internet and tech growing as they became adults or into adulthood

BigMandysBookClub · 13/02/2023 13:37

RandomMess · 11/02/2023 21:56

I'm a slap bang mid Gen X - very grateful tbh.

Just wish my Baby Boomer parents would let me inherit from them

What, a baby boomer thinking of younger generations? Ha ha. We are more likely to see Jacob Reiss Mogg in a lime green Addidas tracksuit.

Ginmonkeyagain · 13/02/2023 14:04

Millennials are people who came of age in the millennium not people born around then - so the oldest millennials will be around forty now.

Those of us born in the late seventies/early eighties are Xennials - people who had analogue childhoods but digital adulthoods.

EsmeSusanOgg · 13/02/2023 14:34

hellosunshineagainxxx · 13/02/2023 13:35

You're wrong. Millennials are defined by an analogue childhood largely similar to the previous generations with the internet and tech growing as they became adults or into adulthood

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Yup. Millenials are the last analogue child generation, but the first teens/ young adults to really have social media/ smart phones etc.

EsmeSusanOgg · 13/02/2023 14:38

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 11/02/2023 22:37

I was born 1966, (57 in August,) which makes me Generation X, but I am right at the start of it virtually. I think they start at 1965. DH was born 1965. We are both 100% Gen X, and not a scrap of 'Boomer' in us, even though we are only just out of the Boomer range. We have NOTHING in common with any boomers we know.

I get on better with people younger than me, even up to 30 years younger (like late 20s) than I do people even 5 years older. I like todays' music (as well as 90s, 80s, and 70s.) And like video games, netflix, recent films and film stars (as well as older ones going back to the 1970s.) I book tickets and meals on my smartphone, I have travelled to about 20 different countries, (a few alone,) and I have lived on my own in London, (for 3 years,) and also Paris (for 6 months,) and I feel about 27 in my head.

I struggle to relate to people my own age or a bit older. I get on with them, but seem to find people between 10 to 30 years younger easier to talk to. Probably because I like stuff they like, and am young at heart, and have a young mind and a young soul. I know people only 5-6 years older than me that frankly are quite boring, (to me.) They don't do much with their life, have never been abroad, don't have a smart phone, have never used a computer, and don't have netflix or amazon prime, they very rarely watch films, or listen to music, and have never played a videogame. They seem a generation older than me (like 25 years older,) not 5-6 years.

DD was born 1994, so is at the far end of Millennial but is still a millennial. 100%. She is in no way a Gen Z.

Like a few other posters, I do roll my eyes at some people who think being diverse, accepting people in same sex relationships, being opposed to racism, and nuclear war, and being a vegetarian, is something people born after the mid 1980s invented. I was born in 1966, and a young adult in the 1980s, and all of that ^ was a thing then. Some people do love to believe they invented things though!

As another pp said, Gen X are fucking awesome.

TBH, my (older end) boomer parents said those were all things when they were young in the 60s.

Whydoitry · 13/02/2023 15:01

Born on NYE in Dec 1980. I definitely feel Gen X, not Millennial. Well, technically I am, but given my DOB I choose which to identify with 😉

I grew up hearing the term Gen X a lot. Never crossed my mind that half my school class were technically Gen X and the other half Millenial. It's a bit of a silly divide tbh.

My cousin was born in 1990, so def Millenial and we were recently discussing our different university experiences. They were wildly different. When I went, there were no mobiles, social media, few people had laptops, only just had emails. Tuition fees had only just started. I think 15 years is too long to group people.

AffIt · 13/02/2023 15:04

The Xennial 'micro-generation' slots into 1977-1983 (although some make it 1985) - the general definition being 'analogue childhood, digital (young) adulthood'.

1979 here.

bobbytorq · 13/02/2023 17:26

These generations are total bollocks.

ZenNudist · 13/02/2023 17:40

I'm 1978 and my dsis is early 1980. She's about as elder millennial as you can be. Still think of her as millennial. I'm x but I tend to think I'm a baby x. I kind of missed a lot of the cool things that affected xers like I was in my teens and at school when the whole slacker stereotype came about. Not sure what a gen x stereotype is now, nor a millennial one because some millennials are now 40 and in management with good jobs and houses. Hardly the avocado eating unable to afford a house stereotype.

People tend to think that xers have it good in the way boomers hadn't good which isn't quite true.

Feelsolowrightnow · 13/02/2023 22:01

@EsmeSusanOgg 77 is xennial

MakeMineADouble81 · 13/02/2023 22:08

She's a geriatric millennial (like me!)

EsmeSusanOgg · 14/02/2023 11:13

Feelsolowrightnow · 13/02/2023 22:01

@EsmeSusanOgg 77 is xennial

Note is says 'in internet folklore'. It's a much later generational term for people who don't feel like they fit into the Gen X/ Gen Y (Millennial) camps.

Useful perhaps for marketing, but less useful for broader demographic studies. There's also a lack of agreement as to who fits into these transitional years.

EsmeSusanOgg · 14/02/2023 11:15

ZenNudist · 13/02/2023 17:40

I'm 1978 and my dsis is early 1980. She's about as elder millennial as you can be. Still think of her as millennial. I'm x but I tend to think I'm a baby x. I kind of missed a lot of the cool things that affected xers like I was in my teens and at school when the whole slacker stereotype came about. Not sure what a gen x stereotype is now, nor a millennial one because some millennials are now 40 and in management with good jobs and houses. Hardly the avocado eating unable to afford a house stereotype.

People tend to think that xers have it good in the way boomers hadn't good which isn't quite true.

Most Millenials I know have mortgages, middle-weight/ senior jobs, and pensions. Thoroughly middle-aged by any measure.

purpledagger · 14/02/2023 12:23

another xennial joining the thread.

mewkins · 14/02/2023 13:06

teezletangler · 11/02/2023 21:21

I'm 1980, so a Xennial. It is a bit of a no man's land in that like others I don't identify at all with Gen X and not hugely with millennial either.

There is a general misunderstanding of millennial though. DH is always calling the 25 year olds who work for him "millennials", and I am always pointing out that they are Gen Z. A lot of the attitudes we associate with millennials are actually Gen Z.

I agree. I'm 79 born and feel quite millennial as we were early adopters of new technology in my household 😄. The millennial snowflake term is just used wrongly.