Generation Y vs Milliennails vs Generation Z

Wellllll, look at the overlap. It's no wonder people "confuse" them. It's not straightforward at all and is subject to the interpretation of the reader.

I mean, what should someone born in 1983 be "labeled" as?

To me, any label shouldn't span more than 5-7 years. Which itself is kinda horesh*t too, considering I'm in my late 30's and identify more with recent college grads.

Maybe we should just drop the labels altogether.

I thought the Silent Generation preceded the Boomers and the Greatest Generation was before that. The Greatest Generation would have grown up during the depression, fought WWII, then went on to work and drive highly productive and innovative mid-20th century. This would require a birth year of 1927 at the latest.

Exception wrote:

Wellllll, look at the overlap. It's no wonder people "confuse" them. It's not straightforward at all and is subject to the interpretation of the reader.

I mean, what should someone born in 1983 be "labeled" as?

Wouldn't millennials be a sub-type of Generation Y? That's what I am saying.

I think you have to accept 1983 as millennial but in limited cases. There are some tech savvy 1982 birth years that are more millennial than people born in 1983. Likewise there are many 1984 and 1985 birth years who are computer illiterate and didn't catch on to the technology bug. But certainly after 1986 it's a continuous flow.

Early millennials would have been in elementary school with apple computers, children's writing and publishing, microsoft works, Number munchers, etc. Early millennials had various versions of Nintendo and experienced 007 and Call of Duty on early playstation. Early millennials had Netscape Navigator, Nokia phones, AOL Instant Messenger and would have been not halfway through college once facebook launched and before it became a unified version of AIM and myspace. Early millennials would have connected to their peers on facebook through the class schedule functionality. Early millennials would have scoffed at classmates.com being the first social network and were skeptical of joining facebook because it originally appeared like another myspace. The real profile and status was instant messenger. Early millennials would have traded in their dell flat screen for a white macbook before the macbook pro came out. I think that's where it starts.

I argue Millennials end at about 1995-96 birth years and turn into something new.

I argue that the Greatest Generation confronted Nazi world domination, the Boomers confronted conformity and the rest of them learned how to operate devices that end up in land fills in poor countries.

This is the twilight of a nation.

Thankful that I can go run after work today.

craptastic wrote:

I argue that the Greatest Generation confronted Nazi world domination, the Boomers confronted conformity and the rest of them learned how to operate devices that end up in land fills in poor countries.

This is the twilight of a nation.

Thankful that I can go run after work today.

There is a really great chance, say 99/100, that i wouls absolutely beat the living sh't out of you in your prime. I am a millennial.