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Millennials, get ready to barf rainbows: As older people get onto Snapchat, they’re bringing their older ways and interests. gg, Medium blogger. Years after t

Millennials, get ready to barf rainbows: As older people get onto Snapchat, they’re bringing their older ways and interests. gg, Medium blogger. Years after the annoyance that Snapchat is filling up with users promoting a brand, it's different now because I'm also ignoring brands that I'm not in the demo for?

strictnein 10y ago
> "Millennials, get ready to barf rainbows: As older people get onto Snapchat, they’re bringing their older ways and interests." I'm not even convinced that the stats they list show that. To me, they just show that those aged 25-34 are continuing to use the app after they make their 35th orbit around the sun. People turning 35 this year are the first millennials (born in 1981).
- disgruntledphd2 10y ago
  Being born in 1981, I've always been horribly confused about that. I kinda felt that the whole millenials thing got started way after I was in my early twenties. I thought I was supposed to be Generation X for a while, or Generation Y or maybe a millenial. It's terribly vexatious ;) But yeah, the stats (from comScore and their browser toolbars) could represent a lot of different things here, and the sampling variability is likely to be high.
  - beachstartup 10y ago
    i was born in 83. i used actual rotary phones when i was a kid. then getting an answering machine with a tape in it was a big deal. i don't know what the cutoff is, but anyone who's done those things shouldn't consider themselves a millennial. to me, a millennial is basically someone who doesn't remember what life was like before all the tech we have now, specifically cell phones (not even smart phones), and broadband.
    - castratikron 10y ago
      I consider the cutoff to be people who don't remember how the world was before 9/11, which would probably be people born after 1996 or so.
  - tinco 10y ago
    According to Wikipedia, it was coined in 1987. And apparently it denotes people who came into adulthood in or after 2000. The earliest would be ~16 in 2000, so a birthdate in 1984 would be a logical starting point. If you consider the internet age to have started a little before 2000, maybe 96 or 98 you could reckon a slightly earlier birthdate. But keep in mind this is about when the mainstream entered the internet. (Also obviously, in 1987 they couldn't have predicted what the defining aspect (i.e. the internet) of this generation would be though they might have suspected the prevalence of the computer would be a big influence)
  - strictnein 10y ago
    To be honest, I'm born in 1980 so by stating 1981 I can keep myself out of it :) There isn't really a hard and fast range, but I've seen 1980 - 1985 as starting years.
- racl101 10y ago
  " People turning 35 this year are the first millennials (born in 1981)." - weird, I always considered myself a Gen-xer having being born in 1982. Not a millennial. This whole time I've been making snide remarks at my own kin? Oh brother.

strictnein 10y ago

> "Millennials, get ready to barf rainbows: As older people get onto Snapchat, they’re bringing their older ways and interests." I'm not even convinced that the stats they list show that. To me, they just show that those aged 25-34 are continuing to use the app after they make their 35th orbit around the sun. People turning 35 this year are the first millennials (born in 1981).

disgruntledphd2 10y ago
Being born in 1981, I've always been horribly confused about that. I kinda felt that the whole millenials thing got started way after I was in my early twenties. I thought I was supposed to be Generation X for a while, or Generation Y or maybe a millenial. It's terribly vexatious ;) But yeah, the stats (from comScore and their browser toolbars) could represent a lot of different things here, and the sampling variability is likely to be high.
- beachstartup 10y ago
  i was born in 83. i used actual rotary phones when i was a kid. then getting an answering machine with a tape in it was a big deal. i don't know what the cutoff is, but anyone who's done those things shouldn't consider themselves a millennial. to me, a millennial is basically someone who doesn't remember what life was like before all the tech we have now, specifically cell phones (not even smart phones), and broadband.
  - castratikron 10y ago
    I consider the cutoff to be people who don't remember how the world was before 9/11, which would probably be people born after 1996 or so.
- tinco 10y ago
  According to Wikipedia, it was coined in 1987. And apparently it denotes people who came into adulthood in or after 2000. The earliest would be ~16 in 2000, so a birthdate in 1984 would be a logical starting point. If you consider the internet age to have started a little before 2000, maybe 96 or 98 you could reckon a slightly earlier birthdate. But keep in mind this is about when the mainstream entered the internet. (Also obviously, in 1987 they couldn't have predicted what the defining aspect (i.e. the internet) of this generation would be though they might have suspected the prevalence of the computer would be a big influence)
- strictnein 10y ago
  To be honest, I'm born in 1980 so by stating 1981 I can keep myself out of it :) There isn't really a hard and fast range, but I've seen 1980 - 1985 as starting years.
racl101 10y ago
" People turning 35 this year are the first millennials (born in 1981)." - weird, I always considered myself a Gen-xer having being born in 1982. Not a millennial. This whole time I've been making snide remarks at my own kin? Oh brother.