How do you do fellow gen z

I hate being lumped in with all the zoomers in gen z. To me, gen Z is really two generations, gen Z is 1997-2006 and zoomers are 2006-2015. There’s just a huge cultural gap, at least in my experience. I’ll talk about how all my school computers used windows XP, and zoomers will just stare at me like I’m ancient or something.

Yup, 2000 and I cannot relate with anyone even a couple years younger, we still didn’t have social media till 12-14 y/o. It’s so different to kids who’ve been online their whole lives.

'01, and I agree. I’ve always had computers at my disposal to some extent, but kids these days have even more technology around them. Makes me wonder what kind of paradigms we’ll have 20 years from now.

Get off of my Millenial lawn! 👴

(I cannot afford a lawn)

Wait wait wait… Am I gen X?! My world just crumbled

Gen X is 1965 to 1981; if you just missed the mark for Gen Z, you’re possibly a millennial, aka Gen Y (1982 - 1996).

As someone from 1996 I feel split :[

Yep! I’m dumb, thanks for the correction, I’m feeling a bit less old now :)

Hey, it’s all good, welcome to Team Millennial. Here’s your complimentary ‘I Am Older Than The Internet’ T-shirt, and your back pain medication.

So I am Gen X born 1980. And who decided this?

That’s an interesting question and I wasn’t sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.

According to this source, which I can’t verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:

No official commission or group decides what each generation is called and when it starts and ends. Instead, different names and birth year cutoffs are proposed, and through a somewhat haphazard process a consensus slowly develops in the media and popular parlance.