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WTF is my generation called?

BlazerBoy

BlazerBoy

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I'm getting tired of my generations groping for some type of title. If you 25 or younger, apparantly you are just a little south of being a true Gen-Xer, and a few media sources have started calling us GenY and even Generation Z. When I was younger, we were the "Class of 2000". Now, General Motors, in preperation for a cache of new cars aimed directly at us, has officially christened us the "Millennials", claiming that we spend between $13 and $27 billion of our parents and our own money, and says we are the most ethnically diverse, and technologicaly saavy generation to date. GM also claims that we outnumber Baby Boomers by 33%, being their later batch of children.

All that, and we can't even find one name for ourselves.
 
What is a defining characteristic of your age group, BB? Higher technology is certainly a standout from your predecessors, but for the kids coming up behind you, they'll have even more and better. I know my age group used to be hippies, flower children, rednecks, peaceniks, Jesus Freaks, anti-establishment, etc. - never "baby boomers." Of course, now we're all establishmentarianist in one way or another. I always thought GenXers were called that because they had no political causes, wars, global events or other issues bigger than themselves to rally around which made them mostly selfish and all about how to make lots of money without actually producing anything and then retiring at age 30 to do more of nothing. I don't mean that to sound that negative but that age group was/is pretty self absorbed. What do young people 25 and younger really care about?
 
Most generations are named by history, not while they're still finding themselves, BTW.

Ad agencies are the only ones who brand demographic groups as "generations" so quickly.

Don't rush it. It'll happen. Now come back to bed.
 
BlazerBoy said:
I'm getting tired of my generations groping for some type of title. If you 25 or younger, apparantly you are just a little south of being a true Gen-Xer, and a few media sources have started calling us GenY and even Generation Z. When I was younger, we were the "Class of 2000". Now, General Motors, in preperation for a cache of new cars aimed directly at us, has officially christened us the "Millennials", claiming that we spend between $13 and $27 billion of our parents and our own money, and says we are the most ethnically diverse, and technologicaly saavy generation to date. GM also claims that we outnumber Baby Boomers by 33%, being their later batch of children.

All that, and we can't even find one name for ourselves.
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I have a name for it...... FUCKED!!!!!
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When I was like 5 or 6, while Elvis Walked The Earth, you were either "greaser" or "colleague" (pronounced colleej) and dressed and acted accordingly, at least in inner city Boston anyway. There was also that weird "beatnik" movement that occurred on the fringes, where people smoked lithium cigarettes and wore lots of mascara. Then of course came straights and hippies, we all know what became of that, I dont remember what they were called during the seventies because I had hair back then and it was long and I roamed the deserts of the great Southwest.

Slackers, that's it BB. you fuckers are Slackers.
 
Yep. Been around. I probably have kids your age, just like Wheezie.

Older, I bet.
 
I'm hardly old though. Middle aged is more like it. Sixty is the new thirty nudge nudge wink wink.
 
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