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> if they have a question they'll ask siri. if they want help with their homework they'll ask okgoogle. if they want someone to read them a story they'll ask al

> if they have a question they'll ask siri. if they want help with their homework they'll ask okgoogle. if they want someone to read them a story they'll ask alexa. This has almost always been the case. Have you met a single millennial?

sanderjd 9y ago
I'm confused by this. People tell me I'm one of these "millennials". I think I was 26 when the first, pretty useless, version of Siri came out, and 29 when Alexa came onto the scene. I can't mesh that with it having "always been the case" that millennials asked Siri and Alexa for help with things.
- dmmc 9y ago
  I think different people consider millennials to consist of different age ranges. Mostly, I see people use the term to mean "young adults of today", primarily people in their 20s. After some quick searching, it appears the starting birth year for millenials can be considered to go as far back as 1977. Having personally been born in 1980, I've never characterized myself as what I hear a "millennial" to be, and the people I know in my age range feel the same way about themselves.
  - ryanwaggoner 9y ago
    Yeah, we older millenials are super salty about being labeled as such. But professional demographers and sociologists say you are a millenial (at least some of them, 1980 is borderline), so to the extent that these are defined groups that mean anything, you are one. I suspect that not wanting to be labeled a millenial is one of the defining characteristics.
  - sanderjd 9y ago
    > I've never characterized myself as what I hear a "millennial" to be I suspect this is true for literally everybody. Which is because these characterizations are reductive nonsense: people contain multitudes.
    - KGIII 9y ago
      How true. I'm a boomer. I'm told that I'm responsible for many ills, hold certain political views, and can't use a computer. None of which are true, but here we are. My generation had the sexual revolution, I'm so left I make Europeans blush, and I used my first computer in the early seventies. But, people like their boxes and generalizations, or so it seems.
- yorwba 9y ago
  The voice interaction aspect may be new, but books and later the web were my go-to sources when I grew up, not my parents. So to me it does feel like those "new" problems are not so new after all. Technology is just changing the mode of interaction, not the fundamental dynamic that lets kids entertain themselves without their parents.
  - sanderjd 9y ago
    Sure, I agree! Is that the point my parent comment was making? I can't find this point in that comment.

sanderjd 9y ago

I'm confused by this. People tell me I'm one of these "millennials". I think I was 26 when the first, pretty useless, version of Siri came out, and 29 when Alexa came onto the scene. I can't mesh that with it having "always been the case" that millennials asked Siri and Alexa for help with things.

dmmc 9y ago
I think different people consider millennials to consist of different age ranges. Mostly, I see people use the term to mean "young adults of today", primarily people in their 20s. After some quick searching, it appears the starting birth year for millenials can be considered to go as far back as 1977. Having personally been born in 1980, I've never characterized myself as what I hear a "millennial" to be, and the people I know in my age range feel the same way about themselves.
- ryanwaggoner 9y ago
  Yeah, we older millenials are super salty about being labeled as such. But professional demographers and sociologists say you are a millenial (at least some of them, 1980 is borderline), so to the extent that these are defined groups that mean anything, you are one. I suspect that not wanting to be labeled a millenial is one of the defining characteristics.
- sanderjd 9y ago
  > I've never characterized myself as what I hear a "millennial" to be I suspect this is true for literally everybody. Which is because these characterizations are reductive nonsense: people contain multitudes.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    How true. I'm a boomer. I'm told that I'm responsible for many ills, hold certain political views, and can't use a computer. None of which are true, but here we are. My generation had the sexual revolution, I'm so left I make Europeans blush, and I used my first computer in the early seventies. But, people like their boxes and generalizations, or so it seems.
yorwba 9y ago
The voice interaction aspect may be new, but books and later the web were my go-to sources when I grew up, not my parents. So to me it does feel like those "new" problems are not so new after all. Technology is just changing the mode of interaction, not the fundamental dynamic that lets kids entertain themselves without their parents.
- sanderjd 9y ago
  Sure, I agree! Is that the point my parent comment was making? I can't find this point in that comment.