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Don’t Call Me a Millennial – I’m an Old Millennial

Markoff 10y ago
i find it amusing when i am considered millennial because i was born in beginning of 80s, since i abandoned Facebook, never been on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other nonsense, but i remember BBS, Fido, connecting modem sound, turbo buttons, ZX spectrum,C64, etc. while my cousin who is like bit more than 10 years younger feel already like entirely different generation with all his social crap and online games though it's also funny how some people think smartphone is new millennial thing, i was using extensively my mobile already in 90s more as smartphone/PDA than many people nowadays and later in 00s i was already emailing, chatting, surfing, listening music, playing games long time before iPhone was introduced, though young people tend to think we were on trees before recently i read comments to YouTube video (A long way home or something like that about walking through China and growing beard) where were young people suspicious how good was quality of photos in some video in 2009 as if before smartphones we didn't have good handheld cameras, seem to me that newer generation is more shallow and ignorant with shorter and shorter attention span, now we were pretty ignorant and shallow in 90s too, but at least we could keep attention to something without being disturbed by every present social media
- saurik 10y ago
  https://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/ https://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-gene...
theandrewbailey 10y ago
I agree, but I identify specifically as "Generation Y", because that's what we were called before all this smartphone and social media stuff was a thing.
AndrewKemendo 10y ago
Yea it's a weird thing for anyone who was born from 1980-1990. The pace of change has been too great for the ends of the spectra to have similar life experiences. If you were born in 1980 you probably didn't have a home computer before you were a teenager. If you were born in 1990 you more than likely did. Born in 1980 in the US? Sept 11 and the following 15 years of wars probably had a major impact on your job. Born in 1990? You probably only marginally remember 9/11. Someone born in 1980 probably got wiped out in the 2008 recession. Someone from 1990 just started college. Etc... So the groups are way too different to fall into the same category.
wolfgke 10y ago
An interesting discussion about this topic can be found at https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/5lgnqf/could_someone_explain_me_all_that_millenial_stuff/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/5lgnqf/could_...

i find it amusing when i am considered millennial because i was born in beginning of 80s, since i abandoned Facebook, never been on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other nonsense, but i remember BBS, Fido, connecting modem sound, turbo buttons, ZX spectrum,C64, etc. while my cousin who is like bit more than 10 years younger feel already like entirely different generation with all his social crap and online games though it's also funny how some people think smartphone is new millennial thing, i was using extensively my mobile already in 90s more as smartphone/PDA than many people nowadays and later in 00s i was already emailing, chatting, surfing, listening music, playing games long time before iPhone was introduced, though young people tend to think we were on trees before recently i read comments to YouTube video (A long way home or something like that about walking through China and growing beard) where were young people suspicious how good was quality of photos in some video in 2009 as if before smartphones we didn't have good handheld cameras, seem to me that newer generation is more shallow and ignorant with shorter and shorter attention span, now we were pretty ignorant and shallow in 90s too, but at least we could keep attention to something without being disturbed by every present social media

saurik 10y ago
https://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/ https://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-gene...

theandrewbailey 10y ago

I agree, but I identify specifically as "Generation Y", because that's what we were called before all this smartphone and social media stuff was a thing.

AndrewKemendo 10y ago

Yea it's a weird thing for anyone who was born from 1980-1990. The pace of change has been too great for the ends of the spectra to have similar life experiences. If you were born in 1980 you probably didn't have a home computer before you were a teenager. If you were born in 1990 you more than likely did. Born in 1980 in the US? Sept 11 and the following 15 years of wars probably had a major impact on your job. Born in 1990? You probably only marginally remember 9/11. Someone born in 1980 probably got wiped out in the 2008 recession. Someone from 1990 just started college. Etc... So the groups are way too different to fall into the same category.

wolfgke 10y ago

An interesting discussion about this topic can be found at https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/5lgnqf/could_someone_explain_me_all_that_millenial_stuff/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/5lgnqf/could_...