I just realized that I don't know what generation I fall under...

[armyowalgreens]

I'm sure there are actually a lot of other young people like me.

I was born in 1989. Which is reaching the very outer limit of Generation Y. But it also seems slightly too early for generation Z.

MTV generation seems to be pretty fitting but everything I've read says that you should be born before 1986. I also seem to fit into the Generation Z description as well.

Are the years of birth only a rough estimate?

[trof]

1. I'm in Generation BBWWII*

*Born Before World War II
Not quite 3 months before Pearl Harbor.
Pre-boomer.
:-)

[liberaltrucker]

6. Damn, you're old!

:hide:

:toast:

[trof]

19. Yep, and getting older every day.

;-)

[Skittles]

24. how will you ever know if you're getting senile, trof?

I mean, you landed at the wrong airport as a pup :D

[trof]

25. GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!1!

:rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. We're in the same un-generation -

I was born sixteen days after they bombed Nagasaki.

My older friends call me an "almost-Boomer."

But, I like to think of myself as having appeared on the cutting edge of Boomerism...................

[catzies]

23. So were my parents. They're in-between-generations like you and so am I

They're not quite booomers, and I'm not quite GenX. :shrug:

[Chan790]

2. Yes.

Well I think so...but that very question has yielded a flame war on DU in the past. Generally which generation a person belongs to is best measured by one's cultural touchstones, not chronology...so say the sociologists. There are those who will argue that it's all about the chronology.

Chronologically, I'm Gen-X(born in 1979) but considering that I don't remember a time before home computers and barely remember a time before the internet, have no recollection of the Cold War or Reaganism and have nothing at all in common with Generation X in terms of cultural signifiers(for example, I don't think I ever listened to pop radio in the 1980s at all, never watched much TV and have never seen Star Wars), you'd be hard-pressed to make the argument that I am generation-x.

[armyowalgreens]

4. Some of my earliest school memories are of me emailing President Clinton...

So that was at least the mid 90s.

I cannot remember a time without a home computer or CDs. I grew up watching Nickelodeon (Doug, Rugrats, Spongebob etc.).

I think I am a Generation Zer.

[HopeHoops]

3. Well, shit - that's a hard call.

My eldest daughter is only two years younger than you and I don't think she has ever bothered to try to classify herself. I think it is time for your generation to just fucking make up your OWN name if you want one and stop letting the media whore marketing departments fabricate stupid labels FOR you.

I was born in 63 so they say I'm on of the last "boomers" (65 seems to be the arbitrary cutoff). That's weird since my parents were both among the FIRST "boomers". I don't have a label I fit into either. Screw it. As Popeye says, "I yam what I yam".

[liberaltrucker]

5. I guess I'm a Boomer

DOB 3/11/1954. But, who determines the demarcations?

Hell, I'm just lil ole lt, aka Ron.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Gen Y, I'd say.

I think "they" say Gen Y was until the early 90s. :shrug:

I feel like don't really fit a generation. I'm too young to be a Baby Boomer (born two years after in 1966), but I never identified with Gen X.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Y is usually from 1980 to mid 90s. So I'd say you're Y. Z starts in mid 90s.

[ShenandoahAspen]

9. I'm not sure what generation I'm under either. Maybe Generation Y?

I was born in March of 1981, a little less than two months after Reagan was inaugurated and 12 days before he was shot. I don't really identify as Generation X. I don't remember much about the 80s(although I do love the music from that decade). I vaguely remember reading stories about the Cold War, and seeing Cold War era maps, but I remember a lot about the 90s -- the Clinton years, getting on the Internet for the first time in 1997, and collecting Beanie Babies. If I were to define myself, I would say I would say Generation Y, even though most everything I've read says it began in 1982. Although I have to say I prefer the term "Millennials" for the name of that generation. It sounds cooler than "Generation Y" and I feel as if I come to age at the dawn of the new millennium.

[enigmatic]

10. Here's my generation

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2009/03/blank-generation-richard-hell-voidoids.html

[omega minimo]

11. Buddy

ya gotta quit worrying! :pals:

[snailly]

12. Be yourself, not what the media wants to group you

These constructs are what you believe them to be. They do not really exist.

[Bucky]

16. That's terrible advice. If you're not part of a hive, you might as well not be a consumer at all.

Now everyone shut up and go buy something.

 

[snailly]

17. You are truly an idiot.

Re-read what I posted.

[Bucky]

18. :o)

 

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. ;-)

you clearly are not an idiot.

[snailly]

27. I have to agree!

Whoops! Been a long week, folks. I apologize, Bucky!

[snailly]

28. I am so sorry, Bucky!

Yes, I deserved that face palm! LOL

[begin_within]

14. You're in Generation YNOT

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. Be your own generation -

you're far too smart - I've seen it - to fall into any kind of category, and maybe, by virtue of the year of your birth, you'll be in some demographic, but you're going to read history and know everything about what came before you, and that, just that alone, will separate you from the vast majority of that - and other - demographics.

It's the coolest thing in the world, knowing history. It gives you the widest and biggest perspective on your own current events, and makes you smarter than everyone else, the ones who are condemned to make the same mistakes that were made in the past.

Yes, they're not written in stone, and the borders are elastic.

I'm not sure you have a generation yet, so maybe you should start defining it for yourself, hmmmm?

[whistler162]

21. Schaumberg or maybe Robert5?

[lukasahero]

22. I'm suppsedly a boomer

but really have a lot more in common with Gen-Xers. I'm on the date cusp as well and it's frustrating. Here's my solution: I consider myself Gen-X but when people ask, I say boomer. :)

[carlyhippy]

26. I have the same problem....by some accounts I am a baby boomer

by others I am on the fringe of GenX 1964 here.......I think I fit more in the Boomer generation...however I do think there is a hidden "Jones" generation that I am also a part of.....I feel I have no generational identity...

[Neoma]

29. I was born the same year.

My fiance is generation X, so I borrow off of him. But heck, let us join forces and we can declare ourselves Generation Smarty-Pants. Or something like that...

[Deja Q]

30. Should it matter? All of us have traits that transcend this puerile marketing drivel.

Ageist, puerile drivel. :(

[Odin2005]

32. Actually, generations have a sociological reality.

At least according to a couple social history books I've read called Generations and The Fourth Turning, according to the books generations last about 20 years each and is part of a 4 generation long cycle in which generational collective personalities repeat themselves over time, so us Millennials are a "civic" generation similar to the WW2 Generation, Generation X is a "nomad" generation similar to the WW1 Generation, The Boomers are a "prophet" generation similar to the young Progressives of the 1890s, and today's preschoolers will be an "Artist" like the Korean War Generation. "Prophet" generations come of age triggering a period of cultural upheaval, while "Civic" generations come of age by triggering a period of institutional reform and upheaval in the infrastructure of society.

[Odin2005]

31. Smack in the middle of the Millennial Generation (1982-2001)

I'm an early Millennial, born 1986.