Is it just me or is there a new generation about every 4 months lately?
My question is who comes up with these names?? Is there a commission I was never invited?
Baby boomers (named after the post war baby boom that created them) started it by calling the generation following them “generation X”. Then millennials were gen Y for a while before the millennial rebrand after the turn of the millennium for some reason. Gen Z got the nickname zoomer pretty much because it rhymes with boomer. Then we ran out of letters because the boomers decided to start at the wrong end of the alphabet, so we’re doing the Greek alphabet now. Thus gen alpha, who haven’t been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.
Given generations seem to be about 15 years or so, the line for gen beta kids is just around the corner I guess
Unless my 5th grade kid had a kid, no. You’re just getting old. Alpha’s been with us for a while now.
The marker is supposedly anyone born entirely within the 21st century and living in a world that’s connected to the internet 24/7 since birth. The “iPad kids”.
I tend to agree with the person you’re responding to in that actual generations tend to be marked by massive paradigm shifts more than chunks of years.
Like fall of the Berlin wall through 9-11 is a generation.
9-11 through COVID is a generation.
COVID until the water wars is a generation.
It’s marked by things that the basically the whole world is affected by, and we all experience it together in some way.
Agreed. There’s isn’t enough of a difference between a number of the recent gens. I feel like the millennials were the last big one that made sense to me.
I mean 90% of my dad’s humor is dad jokes and Monty Python
And it’s awesome lmao
NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!
And no singing!
Except when OP is making breaking bad references
lisa needs braces, DENTAL PLAN…
We’re calling them gen a?
We can just end the whole “gen” thing.
I think it’s alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).
But yeah, grouping people in generations isn’t really explaining much beyond “people of different ages view this new situation differently”. I think it’s a very American thing. We don’t care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.
Yeah it’s a strange, obviously inaccurate consolidation of millions of people, as if they all share a personality.
Pretty useless and somewhat demeaning trend.
