Hello fellow Oregon Trail generation, we now have a name to avoid being lumped with millenials.

[Ns1]

"Xennials"

What are Xennials? They're people born in the late-70s and early-80s, who lived an analog childhood and digital adulthood. Xennials came of age at a pivotal point that makes them the lynchpin between Gen X and Millennials. Generation X moved into adulthood without many of the digital conveniences we now have, while Millennials can't imagine a world without them. Xennials act as a memory bank, recalling what it was like before smartphones ruled the world, but comfortably Snapchatting and adapting to new methods of communications.

Sarah Stankorb coined the term in a 2014 article in Good Magazine, also calling it the “Oregon Trail Generation,” after the beloved late-70s computer game. Stankorb recognized Xennials as a lucky generation, missing out on some of the misfortunes that have heavily impacted the generations on both sides of it. “We landed in a fleeting sweet spot before the Recession that plagued Millennials’ launch. Yet we were still young enough that when the market crashed, we hadn’t yet invested much and didn’t lose as many homes or as much in retirement savings, unlike many Gen Xers,” she writes. And, in a country currently plagued by violent episodes, Xennials grew up in a fairly peaceful pre-Columbine and 9/11 America.

https://mymodernmet.com/are-you-a-xennial/

 

[AdamK47]

Another made up thing to classify something.

 

[Red Squirrel]

IMO it should end at 1990. I was born in 86 and just annoyed that I don't make the cut.

 

[JujuFish]

recalling what it was like before smartphones ruled the world

So if you're millennial, you can't remember anything past a decade ago?

 

[Zeze]

I'm 1981. I thought we are generation X, no?

 

[Zeze]

I like it, but hate the name. It makes it sound like we're related to millennials.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I fit pretty-much all of those things... except I was born in early 70s. And I never had a poster of NKOTB up in my room.

 

[Contmanest]

I like the Oregon Trail Generation myself.

 

[brianmanahan]

did you just assume my generation?

i totally fall into this though, except i hated NKOTB

 

[DietDrThunder]

I'm 1981. I thought we are generation X, no?

Freshman year of college the year you were born. Hey, I could be your long lost dad!

TVs and radios were analog and my first CS class was writing Assembly Language code on punch cards, feeding them into a card reader to run on an IBM mainframe.

I’m to old to be a Xennial, but on the trailing edge of being a baby boomer.

 

[aigomorla]

8:8 apply to me.. i guess i can call myself a Xennial.

There needs to be one more added to that list..

Going to blockbusters to rent VHS movies.

 

[brianmanahan]

Going to blockbusters to rent VHS movies.

i never went to blockbusters because drug mart was closer

most of the time i went to the library though, because free

 

[Ken g6]

I mostly fit this except I'm still not on social media, which I kind of regret. If Facebook had come along a couple of years earlier I could have kept up with my friends from college. As it was I made an account on Classmates, refused to pay them anything, and they turned out to be worthless. After college I was too concerned about personal information being sold to join Facebook.

 

[brianmanahan]

I mostly fit this except I'm still not on social media, which I kind of regret. If Facebook had come along a couple of years earlier I could have kept up with my friends from college. As it was I made an account on Classmates, refused to pay them anything, and they turned out to be worthless. After college I was too concerned about personal information being sold to join Facebook.

trust me, facebook isn't worth it. i don't really go there anymore because so many people make it a P&N-style cesspool.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I was born in '88 and most of those applied to me. I mean given, I was also a fucking nerd so there is that....

 

[Daishiki]

I’ve hear of Xennials before. I’d rather be called the Oregon Trail Generation.


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[Kaido]

I'm 1981. I thought we are generation X, no?

We're Oregon Trail'sters:

https://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generation/

We are basically the last generation that both played outside & also grew up with technology unfolding into our lives in a usable way. The previous generation had it harder, because they had to transition from typewriters, whereas computers were just coming out in grade school, so we had typing classes & Number Munchers and stuff like that. And on the flip side, the kids after us grew up with computers in the home being a normal thing.

What's crazy is kids who are 10 years old or younger. They were born when the iPhone came out. They've had portable touchscreens their entire lives. They learn so much faster because they have access to more stuff. Every question they have gets answered...it wasn't like when we were kids and had questions, and none of your friends knew the answer, so you asked your parents or your teachers or went to the library and then there were no more ways to find out so you just had to be satisfied with not knowing stuff.

On a tangent, I don't really think fake news is a new thing, because people in our age bracket lived off a lot of made-up tribal knowledge simply because people didn't know.

On another tangent, I sure miss waking up early to catch Saturday morning cartoons & just vegging out with sugar cereal all morning. All the good stuff was on TV starting at like 6am in the morning!

 

[BoomerD]

did you just assume my generation?

i totally fall into this though, except i hated NKOTB

l played OT occasionally, just not at school...the rest...I was there, except, I've NEVER set up a social media account and likely never will...and NKOTB was horrible. I'm just glad Donny Wahlberg went on to an acting career...like his brother, Marky Mark... and I DEFINITELY ain't the "Xennial" generation.

 

[Ken g6]

trust me, facebook isn't worth it. i don't really go there anymore because so many people make it a P&N-style cesspool.

Sure it's not worth it now. But how was it in 2006 or so?

 

[brianmanahan]

Sure it's not worth it now. But how was it in 2006 or so?

yeah it was better back then. people actually posting what they were doing and their own pictures/thoughts/jokes almost all the time, versus nowadays which is sharing polarizing P&N-type spam and grandma memes %90 of the time.

 

[Schmide]

I like it. Basically Adam from the Goldbergs.

69 about a pure GenX as you can get.

 

[Herr Kutz]

Their timeline is off. All but #8 apply to me.

 

[Skunk-Works]

Why does everyone have a label now a days? We always have to classify and and create a stereotypical narrative. I guess it makes people feel better about themselves or something.

#NoLabels

 

[evident]

Why does everyone have a label now a days? We always have to classify and and create a stereotypical narrative. I guess it makes people feel better about themselves or something.

#NoLabels

Stereotyping is the worst form of identity theft

 

[Sonikku]

Born in 84.

I am a millennial no longer!