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Changing the timeline of generations
Right now the generations are;
Millennials: 1981-1996
Gen Z: 1997-2012
Gen Alpha: 2013-presentI feel like late 90s and early 2000s should be it’s own thing. These children were the first to grow up with the internet. I feel like the generation should end in December 2007. This was the beginning of the Great Recession.
Gen Alpha should start at the Great Recession and end in 2020; the year of covid.
So in my opinion it should be;
Millennials: 1981-1995
Gen Z: 1996-2007
Gen Alpha: 2008-2020
Gen Beta: 2020-presentThe differences between children in years I’ve highlighted are evident in how they use social media. Millennials like Facebook and Twitter. Gen Z likes instagram and Snapchat. Gen Alpha like TikTok and BeReal.
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i think it goes like this:
millennials: 1981-1999
gen z: 2000-2010
gen alpha: 2011-present
gen beta: 2020 onwards.
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I was born in 2000’s. I mainly use fb. I don’t really care for instagram or Snapchat, I don’t like the layout.
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Yeah no way you’re throwing me in as a Gen Z pal. Not having it.
I do think 95-2000 is kind of it’s own thing though. We grew up with internet, but quite a niche version where it was all forums & pixel art & silly innocuous memes like peanut butter jelly time, banana phone, etc. We still went out and rode bikes and played football, the internet wasn’t enough to justify staying in.
It’s weird, I think late millennials like myself are in this weird position of not really relating to most millennials nor Gen Zers.
And I find it very strange how Gen Zers, who have grown up with way more sophisticated tech/web than I did, have very little idea about how it all works, can’t seem to troubleshoot etc.
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They don’t make sense for the older generations either.
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Cohorts aren’t based strictly on years and dates. They also have to do with socioeconomic norms for particular groups at a particular time. When kids in more economically advanced areas were all over the internet, kids in the hood elsewhere couldn’t even fathom the idea of having a computer let alone an internet connected one, in the home. So that first group would have been pushed forward into a new generational cohort while those of the same age from the second group would technically be part of the previous cohort.
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>I feel like late 90s and early 2000s should be it’s own thing. These children were the first to grow up with the internet.
I was born in 1984 and have had the internet since 1990 (initially with Prodigy). It was ~1993-4 that AOL started airing national commercials and MTV was regularly talking about the internet.
Late 90s kids grew up with censored ‘internet’ and parental controls. Ours was relatively unfettered. Hell, early on they charged per email!
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yea this is terrible. i get it u were born in like 2002 and don’t want to be grouped with those born past 2008 but there’s nothing u can do about it.
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