PEW Research Center Says Anybody Born After 1996 Is Not a Millennial

[Snaploud]

They don't know what you are...but you're apparently not a millennial. Several years ago, they placed a cut-off of 2004, but they changed their minds.

Some people are tentatively calling you Generation Z (just as some millennials were previously called Generation Y).

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...e-millennials-end-and-post-millennials-begin/

 

[Timewalker]

What are they going to call people when they run out of letters?

 

[Spot261]

Start again or get creative I guess

 

[Discofan]

They don't know what you are...but you're apparently not a millennial. Several years ago, they placed a cut-off of 2004, but they changed their minds.

Some people are tentatively calling you Generation Z (just as some millennials were previously called Generation Y).

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...e-millennials-end-and-post-millennials-begin/

Are they sure it's not: Generation... Why?

 

[Lord Garth]

I was born in 1979, so I'm in that gray area between Generation X and Millennial. Those of us born from 1978-1981 are starting to be unofficially called Xennials. We're on the cusp like Generation Jones before us...

... but anyway, 2004 seems kind of ridiculous. If someone argues I'm a Millennial, okay, but I'm definitely not the same generation as someone born in 2004.

I don't think of myself as being in the same generation as someone born in 1996 either, but the I guess I can live it as a label. There's precedent for it. If the oldest Xennial was born in 1978, then that's an 18-year difference from the youngest Millennial. The Baby Boomer generation is also supposed to be 18 years (1946-1964).

 

[Timewalker]

As a "baby boomer" I just don't get this business of using letters of the alphabet to label generations.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

What are they going to call people when they run out of letters?

The Greek alphabet. The most recent generation is referred to as Gen Alpha / The Alpha Generation by a lot of sources.

https://www.careerplanner.com/Career-Articles/Generations.cfm

Or they could go back to more descriptive names, but unlike letter based names, those don't tend to stick as the generation is currently ongoing, but rather are usually applied to the generation near the tail end or after the fact when you can reflect on the events and cultural trends of that generation. For instance, Gen X'ers were originally called Baby Busters at the time because of declining birth rates, but that didn't stick as time went on, and Gen X was popularized in 1991 by Douglas Coupland.
https://www.thoughtco.com/names-of-generations-1435472

 

[Discofan]

It's better than "The generation we hate because they'll outlive us by decades".

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Is this gonna be like margarine? First it's OK, then it's bad for you, then it's OK again as long as you don't eat 5 pounds of it every day.

Technically I'm early GenX, but mostly I'm in the "don't give a fuck" demographic. It wouldn't matter a shit of most of some of these groups didn't actually fit the mold of their group so well (the last few groups mostly).

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I'd name them generation cellphone. They seem to be unable to survive if you take these implements from them. Apparently, the device taps into their nervous system and eats what's there in the line of brains to replace them with "apps" that trigger and control a hive mentality - essentially a Ceti-eel with a Borg-effect. That generation is propably the biggest bot net ever.

By the by: the fact that these stupidifying devices are called smart phones is once again a proof for the universe's irrepressible sarcasm.

 

[Discofan]

I'd name them generation cellphone. They seem to be unable to survive if you take these implements from them. Apparently, the device taps into their nervous system and eats what's there in the line of brains to replace them with "apps" that trigger and control a hive mentality - essentially a Ceti-eel with a Borg-effect. That generation is propably the biggest bot net ever.

By the by: the fact that these stupidifying devices are called smart phones is once again a proof for the universe's irrepressible sarcasm.

Well, the phone is smart, the person using it though, not necessarily.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I disagree, Discofan (welcome to the board, btw ) if the phone was smart, it'd malfunction after 10 minutes to force people to think themselves and interact with each other directly.

 

[Gepard]

 

[Discofan]

I disagree, Discofan (welcome to the board, btw ) if the phone was smart, it'd malfunction after 10 minutes to force people to think themselves and interact with each other directly.

Thank you!

In that case, the smartest of all phones is just to meet the person in the flesh and talk to them directly.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'd name them generation cellphone. They seem to be unable to survive if you take these implements from them. Apparently, the device taps into their nervous system and eats what's there in the line of brains to replace them with "apps" that trigger and control a hive mentality - essentially a Ceti-eel with a Borg-effect. That generation is propably the biggest bot net ever.

By the by: the fact that these stupidifying devices are called smart phones is once again a proof for the universe's irrepressible sarcasm.

Yeah, kids these days are such idiots with their multi-tasking and grasp of technology, amirite? Don't you think people in the generation prior to yours lazily labelled your use of the internet the same way?

There was a person like you complaining about the next generation wasting their time, energy, and minds on some newfangled technology since the dawn of humanity.

Kids these days with their fancy stick drawings in dirt...
Kids these days with their fancy cave paintings...
Kids these days with their fancy smoke signals...
Kids these days with their fancy cuneiform...
Kids these days with their fancy hieroglyphics...
Kids these days with their fancy papyrus...
...
...
printing presses...
telegraphs...
typewriters...
computers...
the internet...
smartphones...
etc. etc. etc.

And this generation will make fun of the next one's dependence on some future technology, because no one ever learns a damn thing and continues making the same stupid stereotypes about the generations after theirs.

Also, given the way the generations prior to the current one, including my own, kind of left them a giant shitburger (especially, but not exclusively, in the US, at least for some of these) in terms of the environment, war, politics, college costs, medical costs/coverage, debt, gun violence, drug abuse, etc. to deal with, making them the only recent (American) generation to inherit a worse situation than the one before, maybe we should lay off them a bit and deal with our own problems.

Take a look at the kids who are speaking up in the wake of the school shooting in Florida last month and tell me that they aren't intelligent, articulate, and confident representatives of their generation.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Typewriters, pfffft. Newfangled contraptions, the Devil's machine.

 

[Lord Garth]

Works for me. I'd rather be Generation X anyway.

Though I seem to have something in common with the 2000-2017 Generation because I wear nail polish too... except it's black.

 

[BillJ]

I never understood the need for a label of when I was born...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I never understood the need for a label of when I was born...

That's because it's something that other people are applying to you.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Though I seem to have something in common with the 2000-2017 Generation because I wear nail polish too... except it's black.

Thank you!! My eyes were having trouble interpreting that tiny little image. Now that you've pointed it out, it's so obvious... I should be ashamed!