What's a Millennial?

[Zix]

There's allegedly a generation divide between "generation X" and "millenials". Can't say I've ever met anyone in the alleged target group (teens, 20s? :shrug:) whose values, attitudes, social habits or pet peeves are particularly different from that of my own generation (allegedly generation X).

The more I learn about these supposed generational divides the less I believe in them.

Please note this is NOT intended to be a snark at a certain other post wherein the OP indicates clearly downthread that the original assertion was actually a subjective interpretation of their own experience which is fair enough as far as it goes.

[napi21]

1. See link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

[MineralMan]

3. I call Jinx! You may hit me on the shoulder as hard as you like.

[MineralMan]

2. Check this Wikipedia entry....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

[Zix]

6. This is the same stuff they say about "generation X" but with slightly different dates.

I'm getting less and less impressed with these marketing devices.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. HERE YOU GO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

[MineralMan]

5. Three's a charm.

[Zix]

7. So... there's THREE DIFFERENT generation Ys? all with the same characteristics...

... :D

[Deja Q]

9. Three's Company

No millennial would understand that, :rofl:

[Posteritatis]

8. I love how there's like twelve generations per generation these days. (nt)

[Zix]

10. It's a friggin scam.

Swear to God!

People buy this crap and go and start Internet wars over it.

[Posteritatis]

11. At least they've slowed down on the "one generation per online fad" thing

The Friendster Generation, the Myspace Generation, the Youtube Generation, the Facebook Generation, I know I've missed a few, and that's just the last five years.

[Zix]

13. I am BIMBLY Generation. I respect MOOCOW generation but despise FRIED MINGE generation

FRIED MINGE generation does not like MUNGFACE generation but does not know why. MUNGFACE generation prefers blonds. Blonds do not date MUNGFACE generation. MOOCOW generation is annoyed with MUNGFACE generation because they WERE. NOT. THERE. And BIMBLY generation is confused. And everyone shouts at poor BIMBLY generation because they stole FRIED MINGE generation's AURA! And nobody has even HEARD of LICKSOME TOOTHPASTE generation because they are VERY. SHY. But they do exist, honest. Look! There, hiding behind that demographic! Oh, they're gone.

Here, licky licky...

I want a generation X BADGE and a generation X CLUB MAGAZINE and I want to DRESS like a generation X person and go to generation X conventions like a Star Trek fan dressed as a Klingon.

So. There you go. Now you are enlightened, my friend. Things, once bad, are now great.

[Posteritatis]

17. ... BRB, emigrating to join the aspirin generation. (nt)

[LuvNewcastle]

12. It is a scam.

They come out with a new soda and you're supposed to drink it because it was made for your generation. It's foolishness, but it works on a lot of people.

[MineralMan]

14. Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials...

They're all just kids to me. :bounce:

[Warren DeMontague]

16. No shit! Really? Cool!

This Gen X'er has been getting gray hairs for almost 20 years, now. Some old farts such as myself might find being called a "kid" insulting, or maybe just ridiculous--- but not me! Nothing makes me happier than being carded at the liquor store. Except, oh, I quit drinking over a decade ago, too.

:rofl:

[Zix]

18. Quite so. One great big happy family!

Seems to be working so far... mostly...

[MisterP]

15. Jeremy from "Zits"? I can't tell them apart from Gen Y at work:

% they're post-Cold-War, so the kneejerk reaction to "socialism" is absent (like with the de-Republicanization of the Vietnamese- and Cuban-American youths)
% their computer skills make them natural-born secretaries and typists (ridiculous WPM--and even faster when relying on spell-check). They won't be part of a Singularity or a transhuman Solar System, since those are, frankly, noodleheaded concepts. Wine and social justice will probably be more important than the entire Internet.
% they'll probably be VERY cynical and blog-fed as a group, given the choice between a Palinoid party and an IMF-Blairite one: they probably WON'T be the National Review's Second Greatest Generation, dying to spread democracy and keep water and oil safe around the globe. However, they might have standards for journalism that go beyond blogs (e.g., DU, which uses a lot of investigative journalism from AP, Reuters, ABC, etc., as well as muckrakers like Mother Jones).
% they're growing up during the Bush economic flatulence and the current post-Bush crash, which may make them solidarist

I still don't know if there will be an environmentalist or Marxist wave in the future, given than crises of justice and ecology will only get worse under the current world regime

[Zix]

19. The Singularity is the Rapture for Nerds.

I agree with you. Probably would add that any colonisation of any part of the solar system is likely to feature machiens only for QUITE SOME TIME TO COME, in the absence of some ludicrously hyper-abundant energy source. Solar-panelling the whole of the dark side of the moon would be a good start.