Re:The Middle Child – 90s Kids and Why We Aren’t Millennials
by RobbieHacks on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:29PM
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Where is the author getting the age ranges??
"Currently aged 16 to 25, we are forced to be grouped into this almost derogatory term, “Millennial”
Um excuse me but last time I checked someone who is 16 is not a millennial, bus instead gen z
Early 2000's isn't Millennial, that's Gen Z. That's one of my frustrations. I remember seeing an article talking about Millennial college students partying on Miami Beach during COVID, and I was internally screaming "THOSE AREN'T MILLENNIALS, THOSE ARE GEN Z!" But I digress...
Of course, really using years isn't a good way to define a generation. I think it's better to define them by behaviors, events, and especially technology.
For example, one of the defining factors for being a Millennial is the growth of the Internet. It effectively didn't exist during our childhood. Our first Internet experience was on dialup. We could barely stream phone-quality audio. Video was out of the question (Yeah, RealPlayer existed, but it was garbage quality). We got to witness the invention of the MP3 and used Napster (and later Kazaa or Limewire).
We were the last generation who would knock on a friend's door to ask if they wanted to ride bikes together.
Now, depending on where you lived and how quickly your family adopted new technology, you might not have had an Internet connection until the early or even mid 2000s. Or maybe you had one, but rarely used it. These "late bloomers" could make someone born in 1995 identify more with Gen Z than with Millennials.