Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@u0421793 @thordis but there was a baby boom after WW2 ended.
Lots of people, who had interrupted family life because of the war married or just reunited and had children so the birth rate rocketed. Hence the term Baby Boomer.
I'm one of those children.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@ShadSterling

Could be. Gen X were mostly too young to vote against the new wave of neoliberalism in the 80s, but still hung onto some of the benefits before they were completely stripped away for the Millennials.

Gen X is also much smaller than both the Boomer and Millennial generations so that might be a factor.

@contrasocial @hajni @thordis

[clem@theforkiverse.com]

@szczurtorebkowy @thordis also seen us called "the lucky ones" and "the Oregon Trail Generation"

[expertplus@mementomori.social]

I am one of 10%.

[meanderingok@mastodon.social]

@ShadSterling @contrasocial @ReggieHere @hajni @thordis
Gen X is a pretty small group comparatively. It was the effect of the latter Vietnam era combined with more mothers joining the workforce. We were truly the latchkey generation. There have been studies attributing the crime dip of the early to mid 1990s to Gen X being so much smaller than the other gens during the prime "crime" ages. I still know of some paying off their student debt, too, sadly. We're an odd group, overall!

[david_megginson@mstdn.ca]

@thordis I choose boomer, but I could also be genX Depending on where you put the cutoff.

It's a bit ridiculous calling myself a "boomer" given that I was still in kindergarten when the Beatles broke up and I share none of their growing-up experiences, but marketers love oversimplifying things. 🤷

[paburu@social.linux.pizza]

@thordis 1984 here

[u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing]

@marjolica @thordis I bet more babies were born during or shortly after the early 70s nightly power cuts :-)

[bbbhltz@framapiaf.org]

@thordis standard issue millennial

[leadore@sunny.garden]

@david_megginson

Yeah the boomer designation really covers two generations with two very different life experiences. The ones at the older end are old enough to be parents of those of us at the younger end, and I don't relate to them/their experiences at all.

We are actually "Jonesers" or "Generation Jones": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

@thordis

[proficisci90@katholisch.social]

@thordis Millenial, born 1990

[snappyhome@theforkiverse.com]

@thordis
I picked Gen X, but really I'm one of those middling Oregon Trail people who fits cleanly in neither the X nor the Millennial box. Ultimately I have decided that the dividing line should be century of high school graduation, which is why I choose as I did.

[robotdiver@starlite.rodeo]

@thordis

Technically Xennial cuz I cannot relate to 90% of the supposed suburban comfort of Gen X.

[shirotechguy@techhub.social]

@thordis I do not identify as any of the above.

[thesargard@mastodon.social]

@thordis GenZ 🫡

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@thordis
FYI: The correct spelling is "millennial", not "millenial". You've left out one of the "n".

[darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net]

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @marjolica@social.linux.pizza @thordis@theforkiverse.com I'm right on the border between millenial and gen Z depending on who you ask :D

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@fravul
Yes! 💯

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@darkphoenix @marjolica @thordis i consider myself gen x more than I do a millennial. I'd use the term xenial, if it didn't annoy me so much.

[ruthoday2@chaosfem.tw]

@thordis

Generation Jones! (We have been wrongly grouped at the tail end of the Boomers)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones