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Generational Labels - What's yours?
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The Greatest Generation
The Forgotten Generation
Baby Boomers
Gen-X ers
The next one that we should discuss the name of
There are plenty of famously named generations, with a pretty good general idea of the time period of birth.
So - what generation are you from? Do you identify with a "generation"? Do you use generational names?
Also:
What should we call the current generation? People around 12-25 right now? Suggestions:
I for internet
C for constantly connected
Y because it comes after X
"Millenials" because you are stupid
The Forgotten Generation
Baby Boomers
Gen-X ers
The next one that we should discuss the name of
There are plenty of famously named generations, with a pretty good general idea of the time period of birth.
So - what generation are you from? Do you identify with a "generation"? Do you use generational names?
Also:
What should we call the current generation? People around 12-25 right now? Suggestions:
I for internet
C for constantly connected
Y because it comes after X
"Millenials" because you are stupid
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because I like that letter
Lots
This also seems right to me, a little bit more so than the Generation Oregon Trail I mentioned in the Presidency thread.
I'm pretty sure the most well known song among us is the Mario theme.
Ew. This makes me think of stupid ESPN things.
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Apparently I'm Generation Y.
iGen is a better one. i think it succinctly expresses all sorts of things about us.
Can you think of ones that would be more helpful or do you think we should not use them at all?
To me the year of birth is not what matters. What matters is what your parents were. Gen X-ers are those of us who had the extreme misfortune to have full-on baby-boomers as parents.
Baby boomers are those who had greatest generation (ie: people who were adults during WWII) as parents. They had parents who were adults during the great depression etc...
I loathe that one. I am not a commercial product of Apple and though Apple products are famous and somewhat ubiquitous I reject the notion that we are defined or should be best known by marketing and a music player.
generation tequila?
generation S for "significantly similar to the previous generation"?
Except we're not, really
I really don't see the point of using them honestly. At least with the Boomer one, it was being descriptive. The lastest ones of Gen X, or Y, or Next or something weird shit seem to be just constructed to provide the media with an easy generalization label to slap upon an entire swath of a generation and portray them like "see, they're like this".
Besides, how do you define a generation? Every 10 years? 18? Where do you start from in that case? There's a new group of people coming of age and entering adulthood every year and they're going to naturally be connecting with their own age group in ways which will differ from the group a year in front and behind them.
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To nerd it up all to hell, it's like saying that the release of the 4th Edition Rules for Dungeons and Dragons means the 4th Generation of Roleplaying Games.
No because V:TM rebooted like a year or two ago and had its own massive change, and there were a bunch of things that went under during 3.5E, and there's all kinds of crazy online stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the pen and paper stuff anymore.
This is especially true when you're dealing with isolated communities. Things don't change much in the backwoods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations
Going by that, I'm a Gen-X'er, as I was born in 77.
You were warned.
we are defined by personal music players, massively successful marketing campaigns, and lots of things that start with I
mostly the internet
also we are selfish individualists, thus "I"
I'd agree with this too, but amend it to say that the first half of Gen Y are the children of Boomers who went to college and got advanced degrees and waited until their 30s to have kids.
Unfortunately I think the iPod is perhaps one of the strongest symbols of our generation. It pretty much sums up the commercialism, music, culture, style, marketing, pretentiousness even, the widespread use of the internet, and technology in general.
sure, it's the format of "iGen" that pisses me off
Generation I is cool
Greatest (1915-1930 or so) - lived through the Depression, fought WW2, built a kickass economy when they got home and rebuilt Europe. So they were pretty great. Had minor problems with racial equality oops.
Forgotten (1930-1945) - Came after the Greatest so didn't look so great in comparison. Were kind of quiet with no real movement associated with them. Thus: Forgotten.
Boomers (1945-1961 or 1963 (either the Kennedy inauguration or assassination)) - Post WW2 baby boom when the greatest generation was having lots of celebratory sex. Thanatos (and a lot of this board) kind of hate them for being self congratulatory narcissists even if they were our parents (for the most part).
Gen X (1961/63-1980ish) - The theoretical 10th generation of Americans or something.
??? (1980ish - we're not really sure yet late 90s somewhere) - What this therad is about.
See now they're getting lazy. X, Y, Z? If you're not going to be descriptive, then why not have some fun out of it. The next 15 generations will follow hexadecimal notation.
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Which brings in to question: What about people who never got in on the iPod craze and related cultural attitudes?
it's not, but i think it's nice to have a label that is accurate
then they're not part of the dominant cultural trends and as such have no bearing on what defines the generation
Except we're also more community oriented, we volunteer more, we're more politically engaged, etc. It's a weird combination.
I really don't believe the parents group determines the children's. I'm clearly a Gen-Xer but my parents are slightly too old to have been Boomers. But because my folks had kids later in life for that time period, most of my contemporaries are the kids of boomers.
Apparently the Forgotten Generation had no children? No wonder they were forgotten...
(Seriously, though, if you're on the older end of Generation X, your parents are more likely to be from the Forgotten Generation than Boomers. Heck, I'm right on the cusp of Generation X and Y, and my dad is a Forgotten guy. But that's only because I'm the last of five kids.)
2 letters! Take that generation X!
thats what every generation says. it usually lasts until you start your first real job and realize that you can relate to someone in their thirties or someone in their sixeties. or untill you meet someone your age who you can't even understand because he is too different.
Yeah generally it skips two. So Silent -> Forgotten -> Gen X -> whatever is after us and Greatest -> Boomers -> whatever we are. Though obviously on the margins it's not clear.
I've always thought of myself as Gen Y - the years are fuzzy but there was an episode of Wonderfalls that dealt with Gen Y that I really identified myself with at the time.
I like Gen NES better as a label, though