I don’t remember when I first heard “Generation Y” but I do recall hearing “Millennials” when I was in high-school in the mid-to-late 90s. I remember it particularly because I took it (whether or not it was written that way) as the graduating class of 2000, and I was just smidge off that.
What restraint! It took SEVEN whole hours for a Boomer and declare the 60s the most important decade ever. Usually that happens within the first few minutes of any discussion of the generations.
I don’t disagree that there is a certain amount of that going on. But there are certainly commonalities of experience and history that I feel plausibly informs some amount of generational identity. For me, for example, the idea of always growing up in a world where pretty much all of humanity’s information is at your fingertips and communicating with anyone and everyone via text, voice, photo, video, has always has been must somehow affect one’s way of interacting with that world. So I’d expect there to be some general differences in a group that grew up in that sort of world versus one who didn’t.
Except most of the times that you see it happening, it is only happening in your head.
Are you saying there’s not a lot of 60s nostalgia and boosterism on this board? If so, we clearly disagree.
As mentioned before, I’m an Xer, but, no, I haven’t really noticed anything like that on this board. Then again, I’m not exactly looking for it, either.
From my 46 year old perspective, it seems that most of the previous “Generations” have sort of washed out into just the general population now. For me, the only distinct subgroup is just all those annoying dopes under 30 or so, whom I have dubbed “Generation AA (Double-A)” because every time I have to deal with them I wind up wanting to beat them with a sock full of batteries.
Everyone else is just people now.