Xennials, the micro generation between Gen X and Millennials

Re:Xennials, the micro generation between Gen X and Millennials by sudosteph on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:22AM (#16453578)

That experience doesn't seem much different from millenials born in the early 90s. We also played outside, made phone calls and used floppy disks. Most of my friend group didn't get cell phones or myspace until high school, forget facebook.

The only real difference I see is we had playstation or 64s first, not NES, ataris, or sega genesis. Though I guess gameboys and tamagotchi were pretty new.

Seems like an arbitrary distinction. Just because the millenial experience isn't perfectly uniform doesn't mean they aren't still part of it.

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Re:Xennials, the micro generation between Gen X and Millennials by tonyarkles on Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:04AM (#16453809)

I’m chuckling a little bit as someone who would be considered part of the Xennials (born 1983). Your comment about friends not getting cellphones until high school is what got me. I didn’t get a cellphone until nearly the end of university. From my observations going back for my MSc a couple years after getting my BSc, university life with and without cellphones is dramatically different.

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Re:Xennials, the micro generation between Gen X and Millennials by kthejoker2 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:26PM (#16454529)

....That's the "only" real difference?

Google came out when I was 15. Napster came out when I was 17. Wikipedia came out when I was 19. The iPod came out when I was 19.

I think you can appreciate that spending your entire childhood without all of these things and then suddenly there they are is a real difference from someone who got them when they were 6 or 7.

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