So I hear that they're calling my generation "Generation Y".... y, i don't really know.



But apparently we're nomadic, never think of our future, and live for the moment. Kind of fits my picture up until recently, where I've been trying to plan ahead a bit more and have gone back to school and stuff.

So anyway, what "Generation" do you fall under? Do you relate to the stereotypes?


... and yeah, that's all...

mrdespues said:

I think I am in Gen X - I have no idea what that means.

mrdespues said:

I think I am in Gen X - I have no idea what that means.

JustErin said:

X here too
we are the cynical, skeptical generation, never take anything as given. The only advertising that works on us is testimonial (it's good, I tried it and liked it a lot) word of mouth and that which makes us believe WE decided to try it.

Babyboomers are the grateful generation, WOW! everything impresses them - they've gone from black and white photos, wartime hardships, and no TV, to THIS!

the Y's think the world owes them; short attention spans, fickle loyalties

something like that
[Edited 7/2/06 22:18pm]

Generation X is a term for the generation of people born in the Western world (especially people born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, the United States and the United Kingdom) following the post-World War II baby boom generation. While the exact dates bounding this age demographic are highly debated, those born from the 1960s to the early 1980s are generally agreed-upon as possible members of this group. The term is used in demography, the social sciences, and marketing, though it is most often used in popular culture. The generation's influence over pop culture began in the 1980s and has only grown in the 1990s and 2000s.

Although the origins of the term "Generation X" go back at least as far as the early 1960s, it was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, in which Coupland describes the angst of those born between roughly 1960 and 1965, who, while technically part of the Baby Boom Generation, feel no connection to its cultural icons. In Coupland's usage, the "X" of Generation X referred to the namelessness of a generation that was coming into an awareness of its existence as a separate group while at the same time feeling completely dwarfed and culturally overshadowed by the Baby Boomer generation of which it was ostensibly a part. The term Generation X has come to mean something else in popular usage (see below), having been appropriated by the generation following the Baby Boomers -- leaving Coupland's Generation X once again nameless. Generation X has also been described as a generation consisting of those people whose teen years were touched by the 1980s, although many who are considered part of this generation had their teenage years stretching into the 1990s.

Another common description of Generation X includes within it those people who grew up in a period of transition (1945–1990) beginning with the end of World War II and the decline of colonial imperialism and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Thus, the transition between colonialism and globalization is thought to separate the Baby Boomers from the Baby Busters, a sub-generation of Generation X made up of the earliest born members.

Generation Y refers to people born in the 1980s and 1990s. In Western cultures, they were brought up entirely in the age of personal computers and electronic gadgets. Younger gen-Xers and all generation Y children were brought up in the thick of it.

I'm part of the Generation Å.

i must be generation X according to that...

whatever, it's all generalising anyway and this is a pointless thread.

...and this is a pointless thread.

mrdespues said:

Yeah, bring back JPW he was much better!

New Power Generation

And I know for certain Dook,JerseyKRS and Imago are D-Generation

PANDURITO said:

Don't group me with those sissies.

jerseykrs said:

this version of kathy griffin more favorable? My Life On The D-List

I'm 38 and have no idea what my generation is called.

vainandy said:

Old

PANDURITO said:

Bastard! I'm about the same age.

MickG said:

I'm older