Re:The digital native is a myth
by duncan-donuts on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:36PM
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I've never heard anyone call generation Y people that were too young to remember 9/11. I thought gen y _was_ millennials. That being said I do agree with what you're saying I just found it confusing.
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My understanding was that Gen Y originally referred to older millennial. At least, as a younger millennial, that's what I always heard them called growing up until the millennial term got solidified. Meanwhile, Gen Z is the name for the people younger than the millennial cohort until someone coins a catchier one.
As an aside, I always thought that the age rage for millennials was about twice as broad as it should be. I don't really find myself identifying with the older members of the cohort.
Yeah, being born in 1978 I was definitely not Gen X growing up. Gen Y floated around a bit and seemed to refer to me, but once Millenial gelled it seemed to cut off at 1980 or later, and now they want to call me Gen X. I don't really identify with either though.
Yes. The poster is thinking of Generation Z (current teenagers).
OT: do we wrap back up to generation A in 20 years?
Hah. It started with GenX (my label) because of some book with the same name. I read it and didn't relate to it at all. It's something the news likes to do .. generalize an entire generation of Americans. Usually to write unsavory articles about how crappy they are. We got the same treatment.