BBC have deboomerised me.

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I thought boomers were up to 1964, BBC news had an article about "Alphas". In which boomers were designated as born between 1940 and 1960, so I am an "X" now. Given the resentments that exist towards "Boomers", maybe it is for the best.

I like the OP thought boomers went up to 1964, or at least the point in 1963 characterised by the Philip Larkin poem Annus Mirabilis.

Yes! I am a Xennial born in 1980. I think it's a really interesting niche. The joy of a childhood with no social media and when mobile phones were just for emergency use or occasional texts (too expensive). I joined facebook in 2006 but came off all social media about five years later because it felt like the junk food version of real relationships. I'm glad to have experienced enough life without it to know the difference. No judging anyone who likes it though. Love the digital workplace though and now work from home with colleagues around the globe.

@Thegoatliesdownonbroadway I have just told DH (born 1961) that he's been deboomerised and he is delighted 😅

Very very good analogy of social media !

you must have been a VERY VERY early FB user! I didn’t get into it until 2010!

Gen X is the best we get left alone

I am the last month of boomer, and so my life experience like a pp, has been entirely gen x rather than boomer.

Geriatric millennials? 44 is geriatric now?

People born 1940 to 1945 won’t be happy to be newly classified as boomers.

I don’t suppose they’ll give a toss. By the time you’re 80 you’re past caring about a label.

True

I still think people born in the early 1940s are now around 40-45 … sigh

They are now talking about micro-generations for those born on the cusp between two generations. There are Zillennials (born between 1992 and 2002) who bridge the millennial and early gen Z demographic and Xennials (born between 1977 and 1983) who are described as having an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood and often displaying a mix/balance of the typical traits/characteristics of both generations.

As someone born in 1982 I certainly can identify with aspects of both cohorts and I love the fact that I can remember life before smart phones, social media, 24/7 news etc.

I have always identified as Gen X😎

Doesn't make sense - boomers were by definition born after the war?

I’m not so sure; one of the main criterion of Xennials is analogue childhood, digital adulthood, which very much describes my life. My experiences would differ wildly from a Gen X person born in, say, 1966. They would be starting work in the early-mid ‘80s, whereas I would be barely half way through primary school. There would have been very few, if any computers when they were at school, whereas I remember there being a few BBC Micros at primary, and lots of them at secondary, including a whole lab of them in the computer department, and they were soon replaced with Apple Macs.

I’m Gen X had a very much analogue childhood, but I had a digital adulthood - in the sense that I started using the internet from age 24 - I mean is that early enough in adulthood to qualify as a digital adulthood?

I don’t see why not. Computers themselves are obviously digital. Another example might be someone born in the mid ‘70s probably wouldn’t have owned CDs or a CD player as a child, but could afford them once they hit their late teens. I don’t think most homes even had a CD player until the very late ‘80s/early ‘90s, when prices started to fall.

Not according to the BBC

Do you mean - because they're old enough to have learnt what's important in life or because they're too "past it" to care?

Both. The one thing I’ve found about getting older is that with every birthday I have fewer fucks to give. I probably won’t have any left by the time I’m 80.

Not RTFT but I saw a meme the other day that said "be patient with me, I'm from the 1900's" and it hurt 😅

I'm a 'elder' millennial, currently being laughed at on social media for still wearing trainer socks, who died and put gen bloody Z in charge of socks?!

Student Barclaycard gave them out as an incentive to open an account, around 1994. Still got mine somewhere! Prior to that some people used pagers.

I would say people born in the 60s are definitely not boomers. They had a completely different experience from someone born in the 40s.

That’s kind of the way generations work because they cover a couple of decades.

That’s kind of the way generations work because they cover a couple of decades.

..which is why these artificial 'generations' dont work. Well, that and the huge difference between life experiences of people who are the same age.