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Born in 1979. Gen X, or Gen Y?

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Who cares. Just make sure to overvalue your childhood experiences and lament the decline of all forms of entertainment that are geared towards audiences younger than you are.
 
dumb terms are dumb.

hell, i checked wikipedia like every one else and didn't find anything useful other than i apparently didn't know who baby boomers were...i thought they were the people who fucked and made kids after WWII, not the kids themselves. those would be boomees, not boomers, duh.

if you really want to quantify- if you grew up listening to 70's and 80's music, you're genx (hard rock babies). if you grew up listening to 90's music, you're geny (alternative babies). if you grew up listening to the music of the 2000's, go away.
 
Mo0o said:
Who cares. Just make sure to overvalue your childhood experiences and lament the decline of all forms of entertainment that are geared towards audiences younger than you are.
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In 20 years what will the the kids of today be saying were so great about their childhood?
 
her209 said:
Born in 79 here also. It was awesome growing up because we got to grow up in the 80's. The golden age of TV (cartoons). Kids could go outside without parental supervision still. Nintendo anyone?
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Actually you were too young to really appreciate the 80s. Although it was probably awesome to be young in the 80s I was fortunate to be of college age that decade. It was rather fun.
 
Ronstang said:
i did lots of blow
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wut

even though someone wasn't 'mature' in a certain decade, it can still have meaning to them. i was pretty young during the shift from the 80's to the 90's. but i can still remember the changes in style; the example i gave before was the music- jane's addiction, pearl jam, soundgarden, et al. fond memories, even though i was only born in the mid 80's. also i still had an NES.
 
elitism of what fashion? i don't really see that; that's why i consider it a rather worthless categorization. i mean we already have numbers and this concept of 'age'.

i'm in my mid 20's but generally get along with ~30ish people rather than my age or younger.

i feel that's pretty specific. i have no need to say 'im early-mid gen y but i seem to identify more with the really late gen x-ers....'
 
Who cares about Generation X, Y, Z, whatever? It is completely meaningless nonsense. Baby boomers made sense; many men were sent overseas during WW2, so when they returned there was going to be a surge in birthrate. Every generation since then is basically bullshit. Just live your life and stop trying to plug yourself into a group based on who was born near your birthyear.
 
There is the Gen XY generation that exists between 75-85 which is the crossover generation. I was born in 78 and I don't feel myself to be old and I feel that I fall into that Gen XY. I'm going to say this, and this is a exclusive to this generation. If you were born after the Bicentennial but before the SS Challenger Blew up, if you watched shows like Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, He Man, Punky Brewster, Small Wonder or any of the other Afternoon Sitcoms that used to come on in the 80s. Then you are a part of Generation XY.

Heck I remember Tranzor Z and there are very few if any people who remember watching that back in 85(most underrated show out there).
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Who cares about Generation X, Y, Z, whatever? It is completely meaningless nonsense. Baby boomers made sense; many men were sent overseas during WW2, so when they returned there was going to be a surge in birthrate. Every generation since then is basically bullshit. Just live your life and stop trying to plug yourself into a group based on who was born near your birthyear.
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You COMPLETELY missed the point.
WE were never trying to be a generation. It was your precious baby-boomers that were trying to define us and put us in a group. WE have been trying to break out of those molds ever since kindergarten. And mostly what we've seen is strong opposition from a generation thats trying hard to not acknowledge how badly they fucked things up and how much potential we have.
 
1980 here, I'm gen IDontGiveAShit. That's what the Y variable stands for right? I'm lumped in with a bunch of whiny cry babies.
 
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shortylickens said:
You COMPLETELY missed the point.
WE were never trying to be a generation. It was your precious baby-boomers that were trying to define us and put us in a group. WE have been trying to break out of those molds ever since kindergarten. And mostly what we've seen is strong opposition from a generation thats trying hard to not acknowledge how badly they fucked things up and how much potential we have.
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fight the power, chuck d.
 
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