So as someone who also is lumped into that category, I think it is intentional that the "Generation" they have created and are hyping is so large as to cover at least three discreet cultural groupings of people ( 80 to very early 90's, 90's to dot-com bubble, post twin towers ). However each of those groups who's cultural upbringing and psyche will vary greatly don't make a compelling group to market to, so they have taken the least common denominator of all three groups and lumped everyone into that so they have something they can sell to.

People who are one generation down also look at individuals who talk like this with distain, but all of us have a small portion of people our age who do participate in this kind of behavior and even though its a minority its a plurality so thats what gets marketed.

Yeah I totes have no idea what this article is talking about.

I see literally none of this. Born in the early 90s. I'm a "millennial" right?

Or is this using the definition of millennial that is those born in the early aughts - just now turning the age it's legal to collect information on them without verifiable parent's permission (thanks, COPPA!)

As a millennial who talks with the next generation relatively often (younger cousins and the like), I don't think they talk like what was described in the article.

BTW: I've heard the term "Generation Net", as in the generation that grew up after the explosion of AOL / Internet. Generation Net is younger than AOL and never knew a world without the internet.

In my experience, "Generation Net" types with more proper english... pretend to be older, so that they can be taken more seriously online. Without pictures or face-to-face contact, "Generation Net" plays on equal grounds among us on the internet / online forums.

From an online perspective, "Generation Net" is growing up faster than us. They have to deal with griefers in their Minecraft and swatters on their streams on a regular basis. Their face-to-face social skills seem a bit stunted, but that could be only because they're awkward teenagers right now.

What year ranges are we talking about? Millennials are themselves sometimes called the "Net Generation".

I've been calling them the tablet generation. Tablet kids.

Tiblets.

Phablets kids. They use big phones (phone-tablets, phablets) and not tablets.

Tibsh

Are you perhaps a 25+ millennial? I'm at the front (as in, the beginning) of what is generally called the millennial generation, and I feel old around the younger millennials. 20 years is a long time.