Cut-off date for being an official millennial.

[Brillopad]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/millennial-how-old-is-generation-y-cutoff-date-pew-research-center-a8235731.html

As this subject has been mentioned on here several times I thought this may make for interesting reading.

[Niamh.]

I missed out by 3 years :laugh:

[Brillopad]

I missed out by 3 years :laugh:

My son was born in 1996 but only 21 so I don’t think it applies to him.

[Niamh.]

My son was born in 1996 but only 21 so I don’t think it applies to him.

My youngest brother fits in :laugh:

[Brillopad]

My youngest brother fits in :laugh:

Re-reading the article I think it does apply to my son - just - as he will be 22 by the end of 2018.

[Cherie]

I always assumed mine were but they are too young :omgno:

[Niamh.]

I always assumed mine were but they are too young :omgno:

Yeah I thought mine would be too because they were born in the noughties but apparently not. My youngest brother is 30 and he is though.

[Smithy]

Yay I’m part of the better generation :cheer:

[Oliver_W]

Sounds about right, I roughly thought it was "university aged, to 40", so I was off by a few years each way.

[Cherie]

Sounds about right, I roughly thought it was "university aged, to 40", so I was off by a few years each way.

If you are born 1996 it makes you 22 so most people would have finished university

[Oliver_W]

If you are born 1996 it makes you 22 so most people would have finished university

Did you notice the sentence after that one?
so I was off by a few years each way.

[James]

I always thought the generations went something like this -

Baby Boomers: born ~1945 to ~1965

Generation X: born ~1965 to ~1980

Millennials / Generation Y: born ~1980 to ~1995

Generation Z: born ~1995 onwards

[Cherie]

Generation X :dance:

[y.winter]

Seriously, what does it matter? Who really cares about it other than Buzzfeed's editors?

[Withano]

Whats the point in grouping several ages together and giving them an unbrella term? Does anyone know? A millenial born in 96 would typically have more in common with a Gen Z born in 2000, than a millenial born in 1981. Seems a bit daft.. unless theres something obvious that I've been missing?

[Oliver_W]

Seriously, what does it matter? Who really cares about it other than Buzzfeed's editors?

Almost nothing matters tbh, but people like to categorize things, and it could be argued there are differences between the generations.

[user104658]

Apparently there's also a tiny subset generation that I'm part of that only lasted a couple of years. I can't remember what it's called... But basically, if in your childhood you remember NOT having things like Internet, no mobile phones, etc but also in your teens DO have those things. Basically one foot in and one foot out of the "Internet generation".

It is a weird one really. I mean, my childhood involved both being online / on forums etc by my early teens... But also playing games that loaded off of cassette tapes not long before :think:

[user104658]

Oh also, when people talk about "Millennials" in the media, these days to be honest they're actually talking about early Generation Z... They generally mean people who are in their early 20's. Who are not actually millennials at all any more.

[Alf]

Are Millenials also known as Generation Snowflake?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Generation X

it even sounds cool


we piss in muilleniums or whatever they are called

:dance:

[Withano]

Apparently there's also a tiny subset generation that I'm part of that only lasted a couple of years. I can't remember what it's called... But basically, if in your childhood you remember NOT having things like Internet, no mobile phones, etc but also in your teens DO have those things. Basically one foot in and one foot out of the "Internet generation".

It is a weird one really. I mean, my childhood involved both being online / on forums etc by my early teens... But also playing games that loaded off of cassette tapes not long before :think:

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[Tom4784]

Seriously, what does it matter? Who really cares about it other than Buzzfeed's editors?

Older people that want to blame the world's problems on young people despite the fact that it's been their generation running the show for decades.

[Brillopad]

Older people that want to blame the world's problems on young people despite the fact that it's been their generation running the show for decades.

Daft comment. No one really cares it’s just interesting to know. Trust you to see nothing but negativity.

[AnnieK]

Older people that want to blame the world's problems on young people despite the fact that it's been their generation running the show for decades.

In my experience the young blame the old for having it easy and ****ing it up and the old blame the young for being entitled and wanting it all. When really we need to fix the NOW and all pull together to try and fix this cluster **** we are in now, not just play the blame game.

[smudgie]

This baby boomer doesn’t blame her millennial kids for anything..apart from premature ageing.:joker:

[Tom4784]

In my experience the young blame the old for having it easy and ****ing it up and the old blame the young for being entitled and wanting it all. When really we need to fix the NOW and all pull together to try and fix this cluster **** we are in now, not just play the blame game.

It's often one sided though, the whole 'blame Millenials for everything' schtick is something started by the older generation, bringing up the fact that Millenials aren't running **** and the state of the earth currently is the fault of the previous generations is just a response to that. If it weren't for the people that do blame the younger generations for everything then there wouldn't be a blame game in the first place.

[Maru]

I started reading about the Millennial timeline the past several years or so and there are 4-5 variations of it going around. I'll wait until they come to some kind of consensus, but this particular timeline was one of the more restrictive ones I'd read about...

I'm in the same boat as TS, we're the same age (I think?). The internet came kind of late for my age group, so we didn't really have the same "perks" the core Millennial population had... so I feel there's probably a gapgen, but to keep it simple, they just lump us all in with Millennial. Whatev's.

[Marsh.]

My son was born in 1996 but only 21 so I don’t think it applies to him.

Of course it doesn't.
:rolleyes:

[Marsh.]

im millenial fluid, which means some times i identify as a millenial and other times i don't.

[Marsh.]

Generation X

it even sounds cool


we piss in muilleniums or whatever they are called

:dance:

Joke is on you. Millennials are open minded and love piss play. :dance:

[Maru]

It's often one sided though, the whole 'blame Millenials for everything' schtick is something started by the older generation, bringing up the fact that Millenials aren't running **** and the state of the earth currently is the fault of the previous generations is just a response to that. If it weren't for the people that do blame the younger generations for everything then there wouldn't be a blame game in the first place.

No joke, I opened Twitter, Dezzy, and this was in my feed... pure coincidence

Parkland student brags he hung up on Trump White House call, while classmate drops F-bomb on TV
http://bit.ly/2oOniev

One student bragged about hanging up on a phone call from the White House, while another said he is thankful for the chance to improve a world that previous generations have destroyed.

What a great attitude :clap1:. I'm so glad my future is in their hands... Except p-lot twist it isn't... it's in all our hands. I'll be voting in our primary come Tuesday.

[Maru]

Generation X are forever burned into my brain as 30ish years old, as clearly the 80's were just yesterday... but I have to remember now I'm 30ish :laugh: So now I am the same age as my mortal enemy according to my memory...