slo’s WEDNESDAY 3/25 poll - Generational Cohorts

[AppleDumpling]

I’m officially a boomer, born near the end of the baby boom years. Apparently there’s a subset of those on the cusp between boomer and Gen X, known as Generation Jones (roughly 1954-1965), which has some characteristics of both.

 

[Moliphino]

I'm solidly a millennial.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

DH and I are solidly Gen X (early 70s) and our kids fall in the middle to later side of Gen Z.

I recently saw a distinction for late Gen X/early Millennial called "Xinnials." It was like 1977-1984. I guess these people were young enough to not really experience the heart of Gen X but a little more grounded and old school than the norms associated with Millennials. My brother falls in this but me being the older one, he was exposed to a lot of legit Gen X. We recently had a discussion over best Duran Duran songs and I was pleasantly surprised with his opinions and knowledge.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I’m a Baby Boomer, married to a silent Generation person. We raised two X’s.

 

[disneychrista]

Gen X here. And very unsurprised at the poll results so far. There definitely seems to be a big Gen X showing here.

 

[Dan Murphy]

married to a silent Generation person.

 

[E&Cmom]

I am Gen X as is DH. He is at the very beginning though 1965.Our DDs are both Gen Z.

 

[Diznygrl]

The cutoff years between Gen X and Millennial never made sense to me, and obviously was created by someone who had no clue what it was like to be born in the late 70s/early 80s. Things changed so dramatically in those years that there is no way someone born in 1981 (me) had the same childhood as someone born all the way in 1996. Also, my brother was born in 78 and yet we are considered two different generations? We grew up at the same time in the same world! We are absolutely XENNIALS.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Gen X with 2 Gen Z kids and and an Alpha kid. Gen Z - woof. The description you gave is spot-on but it's been a disaster. Combine compete reliance on digital communication (both by choice and by necessity during COVID), with the "social consciousness", and almost no verification of facts beyond social media...it's been rough, I'll leave it at that. My Gen Alpha kid is far more skeptical of everything involving smart phones - and that's a GOOD thing! She's in much better shape to take on the world - and she's only 12!

 

[jimmymc]

Younger millennial, I think I agree with the short description above. A lot of us were raised with computers at home but didn't get cell phones until we were older. Even younger millennials still remember using cassette tapes as their primary music medium before transitioning to CDs and digital.

 

[CGB]

I'm an older Gen X married to a younger Baby Boomer with two Millenials. I used the internet in the military (late 80s) before AOL exploded in the 90s. DH was a gamer on the old Atari system. The technology boom has been awesome to watch and experience.

That said... I still didn't think I'd live to see Terminator become a real thing.... but I worry about that now.

 

[The Mayor]

I'm a Baby Boomer all the way. Born in 1954. My son (1982) and daughter (1984) are both GEN Y but don't fall in with that description.

 

[clappyclaps]

Millennial/Gen Y here, fairly middle of the generation too. I'd say the description is really quite accurate.

 

[Micca]

I hate generalizing people into groups.

That is such a boomer thing to say I'm a boomer too, but I don't like pigeon-holing people based on their birthday.