The myth of Generations

[RichmondBread]

Do you buy the concept of concrete groupings of generations, like "Boomers" or "Millennials"? I don't buy it because the oldest members and youngest members, of each labeled generation, have less in common with each other than they do with cusp members of other labeled generations who are much closer to their age. I think that you share your generation with people close to your age, even if you don't share the same labeled generation. It's like a sliding scale.

The oldest Millennial and the youngest Generation X'er have more in common with each other than they do with people who are ten to twenty years older or younger than they are. They can't identify with those people. It's just common sense. Should we change how we look at generations?

 

[Architect]

ok boomer.

 

[RichmondBread]

ok boomer.

Stupid

 

[Deleted member 1476]

an excellent thread mr bread

 

[Dorado]

Yes, it's a spectrum, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere if we're going to talk about generational differences.

 

[Danish_Retard]

The idea of generations is a very recent phenomenon and has stopped being as relevant since the advent of social media. There is no longer such a stark difference between "generations", and the need to identify with a generation seems to have died with social media. IMO it has become way harder to label people based on their age. Yet all of this is some bullshit I learned in a marketing class so take it with a grain of rat cum.