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Why are Millennials considered the worst
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BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Can't hear you. Listening to EDM on my smartphone and taking a #selfie
It's a myth that we only care about ourselves. We also care about important social causes like lgbt characters in comic books #tumblr
It's a myth that we only care about ourselves. We also care about important social causes like lgbt characters in comic books #tumblr
JJDinomite
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Will the next generation be referred to as the "Meme Generation"?
How would you define a generation then?
I don't think everyone born in 1945 exactly matched up with those born in 1960.
In the end, the very extremes of a generation will often have more in common with the previous/next generation then the one they are in.
terrisus
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Exactly. I started dating my first girlfriend in 1998, and I have no doubt I could've had a child before the start of the new millennium.
Bunch'a crazy kids trying to group themselves in with stuff.
terrisus
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This actually looks pretty decent:
The Green/Red/Yellow part, that is.
And then start Millennials after the end of the yellow.
brianjones
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memes
social media
youtube comments
90s nostalgia
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90s nostalgia
The kids aren't the ones doing the grouping though
I thought 1984 was the traditional starting date for an even 20 years?
TouchMyBox
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You're not alone OP.
I've heard quite a few people in their 20s talk shit about millennials whenever someone younger annoys them.
I can imagine an Onion article "Area Man Discovers He's a Millennial".
I've heard quite a few people in their 20s talk shit about millennials whenever someone younger annoys them.
I can imagine an Onion article "Area Man Discovers He's a Millennial".
Maiden Voyage
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Wait, so I am gen x, gen y, and a millenial? Cool.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Poor Terrisus
terrisus
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That would make at least a bit more sense.
And clear me out of the whole Millennial mess, since I was born in 1982.
But, some places seem to like to have it go back to 1982.
terrisus
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This is why the whole thing is pretty stupid. I think society moves too fast these days to classify 20 years as a generation. I really don't feel super connected to people more than 5 years older or younger than me.
This guy said 9/11 was great!
Captain Tuttle
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terrisus
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You misspelled "Millennial," so that makes you a Millennial :þ
way more
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Those are all about 18 years in length. Millennial is too so what is your problem?
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
We should talk to the guys who declared Pluto not a planet, maybe they can rule you out of this whole millennial mess.
terrisus
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And, really, this is what it comes down to.
I mean, I got my first computer at home in 1992, my first computer with internet at home in 1996, and broadband at home in 1999.
I was 10, 14, and 17 for each of those respectively.
Meanwhile, demographics like this lump people who weren't even born when any of that happened in with me.
To be fair, I'm alright with Pluto not being a planet.
Although it does mess up the whole "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine" mnemonic, since now she's not serving anything >.>
I do. I am 23 and have a lot of shared experiences with 30 year olds. The main difference is I can name more Pokemon.
Goro Majima
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I was born in 1981 and I can almost swear I saw something that stuck me into the millennial group as well.
All I know is that when I was a kid I was part of Generation X and then I was Y and then I was a Millennial and now I'm a Y again.
Make up your minds!
All I know is that when I was a kid I was part of Generation X and then I was Y and then I was a Millennial and now I'm a Y again.
Make up your minds!
way more
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People who were born in 85 were 7 when they got their first comp, internet at age age 11, and internet at age 14. It kind of sounds like they did did share your life, way fucking more than Gen X'ers did. People born in the 90's just grew up with having shitty internet and then discovered broadband when they were 10.
I'm not sure saying you have nothing in common with people who don't remember life when the internet was slower is quite as major as Gen X'ers not even having a thing called The Internet till they were in college.
Actually the more I read your timeline the more it feels exactly on point for what it means to be a millennial. You are nearly the archetypical Millennial.
bananafactory
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To me the bigger differentiator is social media and cell phones. Social media didn't exist when I was in school and cell phones were something only a few rich kids in highschool had.
I think the existence of those products for youth today vastly change how they socialize and interact with others, compared to the crowd of older millenials who didn't have a cell phone until college or later
……forgetit
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TangerineCloud
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Anecdotal evidence, but I've found people over the age of 35 tend to be waaaay worse about spelling over the internet/auto-correct mistakes than millennials these days. Just sayin'.
True Underdog
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Ehh. I find there is always more you can relate up to. But the more I hang out with older people the more it becomes obvious they see my generation as more apart from theirs than I feel. I look at younger people the same way. You may play pokemon, but you haven't even played third gen? Whhhhaaaaat?
there seems to be some confusion with gen y and millennials here. At least what I learned in one of my Canadian marketing classes says otherwise.
What I was taught was that gen y and millennials are the same thing.
baby boomers:1940-54
gen x:1955-79
gen y(millennials):1980-94
gen z(we referred to this one as tweeners):1995-2010
My teacher said that the information above is true for the US as well, but that the years would differ on when the generations begin and end by a few years depending on where one is in the world.
I also don't trust that timeline, as it is descibing a singular generation but wants to separate it into 2 groups.
What I was taught was that gen y and millennials are the same thing.
baby boomers:1940-54
gen x:1955-79
gen y(millennials):1980-94
gen z(we referred to this one as tweeners):1995-2010
My teacher said that the information above is true for the US as well, but that the years would differ on when the generations begin and end by a few years depending on where one is in the world.
I also don't trust that timeline, as it is descibing a singular generation but wants to separate it into 2 groups.
terrisus
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Well, maybe I'm in that narrow gap between people who don't know how to use spell-check, and people who don't know how to spell.
Or maybe I'm just pedantic >.>
lazybones18
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because it's the truth
The Lone Courier
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AzureTranquility95
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You're definitely a Millenial. Did you think you were Gen X?
OP should have posted that chart instead of this;
very confusing. Okay, I'm a millenial... still, get off my lawn!
How dare you! I was going on plane rides before that shit went down! Haven't been on a plane once since that event transpired. It was a horrible day for everyone.
Okay, it started off great except for that one incident in 2001.
Khalifa Jayy
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No entrepreneurship.
No drive.
No skills.
No drive.
No skills.
Stock market crash. Recession. Electoral quagmire.
It's not like young millennials are the only one's using social media and cell phones; they just used them at a younger age. Many older millennials or gen-x/gen-y'ers have been using them as long as they've been around to use.
It certainly has had an affect, but there is a significant overlap in how the internet has affected millennials young and older, and younger gen-x/y'ers. The more important socialization continues to be face to face as well; so the impact the internet has had socially is still hard to quantify.
User 73706
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Old people don't want to be old and try to take it out on young people.
Young people don't want to be young and try to take it out on old people.
Young people don't want to be young and try to take it out on old people.
brianjones
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Kills me I'm in this generation
Edit plus this generation is the first to be earning less than the previous because baby boomers gave us the 80s, thatcher and Reagan dismantling the social security system their fathers gave us after ww2.
Fuck baby boomers selfish right wing cunts.
Young people don't realise that they'll turn into old people with some accumulated wealth who are also vested in their property prices, security, comfort and the desire not to live in a share-house that comes with age.
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