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SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

If you ask me, these generation labels are bullshit and just a way to put people into a stereotypical box and make them an “other”. Not much better than astrology.

RickAstleyfounddead ,

But but there is difference in advancements, science, tech Also doesn’t mean genz= this Millenials= that boomers!= this

antonim ,

I don’t get the impression there are even precise definitions of these generational labels.

And I don’t think they make any sense at all outside of USA and maybe west Europe.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

It’s inherently an american concept, which is what also annoys me as some Europeans have started importing the concept even though it makes little sense (I don’t really think it makes sense in the US either but the fact that it is imported is just extra stupid).

I think people just love putting other people in boxes. Consider people complexly instead.

Glowstick ,

This exactly. At the broadest range you can say there are certain qualities that are more prevalent in one age group compared to another age group, but at the individual person level those trends are meaningless. Any individual person can be conservative or liberal, be caring or selfish, be x or y.

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

i just wanted to know your age without invading privacy. a threshold is better than a number

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Well, in that case, maybe this is interesting to you. I ran a user survey last year for my instance and anyone else wanting to answer and one question was age. Here’s the age group graph:

https://feddit.dk/pictrs/image/390cc912-7afd-4532-a619-6bc534035d9f.webp

The y-axis is number of respondents, x-axis is age group. Obviously this only applies to the people that responded to the survey and thus might not apply in general to the fediverse, but it’s probably an indication. And, well, it’s mostly smoothly distributed without any major gaps or humps (slight hump at 30-34 but not sure if that’s statistically significant).

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

thats cool. that hump might be random as well

Today ,

People 25 to 39 are more likely to respond to an age survey on the Internet?

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

That is also possible, but I think it’s more likely to show the actual distribution rather than a bias like that. But sure.

tatterdemalion ,
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev avatar

They are arbitrary but they at least serve as marking posts for real generational trends. I’m not sure there is much benefit in trying to find any categorization that isn’t arbitrary, so long as the generations are large enough.

pingveno ,

As Millennial as Millennial can be, smack dab in the middle of the cohort.

doggle ,

No clue. Everyone called me a millennial until they started calling me gen Z.

Godric ,

Gen Z, reading the thread I now understand why this platform has an allergy to edgey memes, sarcasm and shitposting not denoted with a /s.

Mars2k21 ,
@Mars2k21@sh.itjust.works avatar

Gen Z.

This place is a lot older than I expected.

Internet generation, progenitors of current online brainrot. Came too early to experience the 90s in all its glory, and too late for running console-quality games on a 6mm thick mobile device.

At least we have the 2010s to claim for ourselves. Those were pretty cool.

RBWells ,

Well I have kids your age, so a literal generation gap? Yes.

I think Lemmy has age diversity, more so than other platforms.

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

i mean, its a good thing

don ,

Late 70’s.

ClassifiedPancake ,

Generation Tamagotchi

pineapplelover ,

Z gang

Khrux , (edited )

I’m born in 98’ so I’m right down the middle but generally classed as the last of the millennials.

I feel a lot closer to zoomers, but where I’m from, I think the people who have fast-tracked adulthood with kids and mortgages are textbook millennials where as layabouts like myself share a lot more spaces with young adult zoomers.

I’m already needing to remind myself that some of the deepest internet brainrot like skibidi toilet is not a new phrase but a meme of the hour started by generation alpha and then carried by confused millennials.

Psythik ,

1998 is Gen Z. The cutoff for Millennials is around 1995-1996, and even then people born around that time are more of a Zillennial than a MilleniaI.

whotookkarl ,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

I’d be cautious that behavior, common experienced events, technology shifts, etc define categories and not the other way around. If the boundaries for generations are arbitrary then inclusion is just as arbitrary and not defined by behavior since behaviors can spread across multiple labels. We all want to belong, but tribalism can be a useful tool to divide humanity against itself. Historic generation labels where distinct boundaries can be observed and defined in an historic context makes sense to me, contemporary generational labels seem like divisive nonsense to me.

TokenBoomer ,

Boomer. We were looksmaxxing before it was cool in Ohio, fr fr, no cap.

Zangoose ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b0305aea-d1d0-4a20-a27c-f89f1276cf0c.jpeg

krimsonbun ,
@krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Gen Z. For once we are a minority on a social media platform that isn’t facebook lol

LoreleiSankTheShip ,

Same, and it’s honestly a little refreshing

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

Memes are lacking though and I finally know why

aredditimmigrant ,

Elder millennial here

SuiXi3D ,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

I’m right there with you.

Snowclone ,

Eldest of millennial.

I voted for ‘generation crash and burn’ but it got cut off on the print out, so…

Routhinator ,
@Routhinator@startrek.website avatar

Elder Millennial as well, sometimes referred to as a Xennial.

One month earlier, and I would be the tail end of GenX

aCosmicWave ,

Semi-related anecdote…

During the debates my wife made a joke that Biden is so old he’s not even a Boomer. We then gave each other a look and pulled out our phones to check. Turns out it’s true, he is from the “Silent Generation”.

deadcatbounce ,
@deadcatbounce@reddthat.com avatar

I think most of his cabinet colleagues wishes he would be.

My parents were too but they were anything but. 1920s and 1940s.

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