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13 Aug 2021, 2:30 am

Gen Y is missing.

I am probably at the later portion of Gen Y, just three years shy of Millennial status.

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13 Aug 2021, 6:16 am

ezbzbfcg2 wrote:

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I relate to Gen-X alot more than Millennial or even Xenial probably partly due to me getting internet later.

A lot of the younger Millennials had fully-functioning Internet since elementary school. What you're describing sounds like some of your classmates started getting Internet connections in high school. But I don't think anyone our age had Internet in grade school, and the Internet looked nothing like it does now.

In fact, all of the staples: Youtube, Wikipedia, Facebook, etc. didn't come around until we were in our 20s. I'm talking about kids who had guaranteed Internet of the people well before puberty.

I get what you mean. Some of my peers had internet when I was in 7th grade but it was dial-up then & the people with more money were much more likely to have it. Things sure are very different these days though.

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13 Aug 2021, 7:48 am

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I thought Baby Boomers were the greatest generation. They brought us peace, love and LGBTQ rights.

what exactly did they do for LGBTQ rights? Seems it was still pretty 'unacceptable' when I was a kid, like it was still treated rather taboo whereas since I've grown up seems it's much less taboo and now there are same sex marriges.

“Gay rights” organizations existed before baby boomers but it was boomers that made the movement public laying the groundwork for the massive achievements of the last decade. While it was very tough to be LBGTQ when I was young it was not as bad as the 50s with its moral panics and purges. Some “androgynous” rock stars such as David Bowie and Elton John were popular among baby boomer audiences and there was disco. I do not want to whitewash this the angry anti disco in part homophobic backlash was driven by boomer rock fans and those music stars were for the most part fearful of coming out. While these changes seem pathetic by todays standards they were changes.

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13 Aug 2021, 7:57 am

Baby Boomer. No Internet until my 30s; then, it was dial-up. Broadband Internet in my 40s. Proliferation of social media in my 50s. Smartphones mid 50s.

In order to withdraw money from a bank, you actually had to visit the bank, stand on line, and give the teller your "passbook." No ATMs until I was nearly 30.

There was no such thing as "buying" a phone until the early 80s, when I was just moving into my 20s. You had to rent a phone from Ma Bell, and they had to install the phone. You couldn't take the phone out of the room that it was in. We had "desk sets" and "wall sets." until the mid to late 70s, most phones were dial phones (now called rotary). Answering machines were luxuries until the 1980s. "Long Distance" calls (calls either from outside, or to outside your area code) were quite expensive, in the neighborhood of five dollars per five minutes in the 1970s.

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13 Aug 2021, 8:23 am

nick007 wrote:

I'm not entirely sure & cant vote. I was born in 1982 & there is some debate as to when Gen X ends & Millennial begins. Some things say that Gen X ends at the end of the 70s & Millennial begins at the begging of the 80s which would mean that I'm an early Millennial. Others say that Gen X ends in the early part of the 80s & that Millennial starts in the earlyish part of the 80s which would mean that I'm at the very end of Gen X. Wikipedia has a term for people in the middle of that confusion called, Xennials~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

Same. I didn't feel like I could vote either.

My sister is a millennial for sure. She was the generation that used MySpace and MSN chat. I was a bit old for that.

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15 Aug 2021, 12:58 am

hurtloam wrote:

nick007 wrote:

Same. I didn't feel like I could vote either.

My sister is a millennial for sure. She was the generation that used MySpace and MSN chat. I was a bit old for that.

Lots of people around my age used MySpace & MSN. I had a MySpace page for a while but I was late to the party & joined when it started slowly dying. I started using ICQ shortly after I got the net & then started using MSN & Yahoo Messenger as well rite after. About half of my friends on there were people who were a bit older than me. Yahoo Messenger was a great way to chat with my 1st girlfriend cuz we were long-distance but she was about 5 years younger than me.

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16 Aug 2021, 8:25 am

I am a millennial.My generation has had it so rough in life so far and i dont think were gonna catch up as a whole.

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16 Aug 2021, 8:30 am

Gen Y are the Millennials.

Tim_Tex wrote:

Gen Y is missing.

I am probably at the later portion of Gen Y, just three years shy of Millennial status.

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16 Aug 2021, 12:10 pm

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I am a millennial.My generation has had it so rough in life so far and i dont think were gonna catch up as a whole.

It seems every generation has it very rough in some ways or at least certain people who are part of any generation. It seems lots of people think their generation has it pretty rough no matter if they are a younger generation or an older one. Older people think kids today have it super easy & the kids think they have it very rough.

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17 Aug 2021, 7:38 pm

nick007 wrote:

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:

I am a millennial.My generation has had it so rough in life so far and i dont think were gonna catch up as a whole.

Ya i mainly meant in a financial and economic way for my generation because we have had 2 major recessions in our short lifetime.

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18 Aug 2021, 1:50 am

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:

Ya i mainly meant in a financial and economic way for my generation because we have had 2 major recessions in our short lifetime.

I got ya but the Silent Generation may of had it just as bad due to being little kids during the Great Depression & then there was World War 2.

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20 Aug 2021, 8:58 am

I am a proud Millenial! Sure, my generation gets a lot of criticism, but I can't think of another era I'd want to belong to. We are the children of the 90s, the last great decade! I wouldn't have wanted to be a child at any other time.

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20 Aug 2021, 12:31 pm

When I was a young kid, my brother would listen to Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Nirvana and such
When I was a teenager, I liked Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Pantera, Disturbed, Korn

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20 Aug 2021, 7:01 pm

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When I was a young kid, my brother would listen to Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Nirvana and such
When I was a teenager, I liked Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Pantera, Disturbed, Korn

All pretty good bands

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20 Aug 2021, 7:16 pm

Last year of the Boomers...... but raised with much older values .

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