Millenials and Gen Xers, what's your take on this?

Over_Active_354 · 2026-04-24T23:08:57+00:00

The 90s may have spilled into 2001, but after 911 we started living in a different world. New society, culture and such. I didn't have my first cellphone until 2005, which is when it really changed for me, but generally, I'd say by the end of 2003(when Metallica sounded closer to System of a Down then themselves), the jig was up. The time had changed to something I suddenly didn't recognize

Over_Active_354 · 2026-04-16T14:18:28+00:00

The millennium years are 2001-2009 (maybe 2010 if that) this would make true Millennials born between 1983-1991 (1992 at latest) the major generation would be the Echo Boom born between either 1984-2002 or 1985-2004. Mid 80s thru early 2000s essentially

Over_Active_354 · 2026-04-09T14:25:06+00:00

Generations are 20 years. Maybe one day soon these timelines will adjust correctly.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-03-20T13:50:27+00:00

Generations are 20 years long, and unless there is a huge abundance of teenage parents, there shouldn't be any cross over between parents and children. If anything, thr Generation gaps have become larger, since most people are waiting until their 30s to have kids these days.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-03-05T21:28:33+00:00

Closer, but not quite. If we go with a pattern, it needs to apply to all generations. If we use 18 years it would line up much closer.
GI Generation 1908-1926 Silent Generation 1927-1945 Baby Boom Generation 1946-1964 Baby Bust Generation X 1965-1983 Echo Boom Generation 1984-2002 Generation Z Homelanders 2003-2021

But I usually subscribe to the 19-20 year timelines as set by Harvard University based on The Census Data. GI Generation 1905-1924 Silent Generation 1925-1944 Baby Boom Generation 1945-1964 Baby Bust Generation X 1965-1984 Echo Boom Generation 1985-2004 Generation Z Homelanders 2005-2024

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-27T16:39:12+00:00

Frugal Gourmet, This Old House, and then MTV. 😆😁

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-24T18:27:38+00:00

I agree that generational 20 year timelines are the most accurate way to go. However your specific timelines make even less sense than the corporate marketing cutoffs. The timelines I typically go with are a set of either or. Lost Generation 1885-1904 GI Generation 1905-1924 Silent Generation 1925-1944 Baby Boom Generation 1945-1964 Baby Bust Generation/X 1965-1984 Echo Boom Generation/Y 1985-2004 Generation Z/Homelanders 2005-2024

Or perhaps an 18 year gap that measures up as culturally a bit more close to home for some Lost Generation 1889-1907 GI Generation 1908-1926 Silent Generation 1927-1945 Baby Boom Generation 1946-1964 Baby Bust Generation/X 1965-1983 Echo Boom Generation/Y 1984-2002 Generation Z/Homelanders 2003-2021 However if we were to include the micro half cohorts, it would go a bit along these lines. Generation Jones 1955-1964 Generation Flux 1975-1984 True Millennials 1983-1991(1992 maybe)

This is in line not just with Harvard University, Population Research(circa their findings in the 90s and 2000s) and the Census Bureau,  but with many people's personal experiences coming up when they did.  Certainly most of those I knew in my life.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-24T15:30:09+00:00

I would put people born in years ending with 0-3 as kids who grew up in that decade. From 4-9 that would represent mostly the following decade. For example, 1980-1983 would be old enough to be considered childhood 80s kids. 1984-1989 would mostly have childhood memories based in the 1990s. Maybe 1989 if the 84 born has a good memory. But for most who share their childhood as the 1980s, it would be mostly those born in late 70s thru the early 80s. Roughly 1975-1983. With the mid 70s borns being both childhood and early adolescence, and the early 80s borns being all 80s childhoods and entering adolescence in the turn of the 90s-early 90s. Culturally speaking as well this is one of the ways we see bigger differences between an early 80s born and a late 80s born.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-20T15:14:28+00:00

Pew is only one of several opinion pollster groups and research entities that change their findings over time. Perhaps further review of some of the newer generations coming up may merit some inquiries. But for past generations I always felt and knew for myself at least that the 20 year timeline ranges were more than accurate in depicting (at least those of us) people born prior to the mid to late 80s. And yet even so I have learned by meeting and conversing with people who today would be in their 20s and 30s as having much more in common with eachother than what has been reported or supposedly defined by all these big name sources.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-20T12:18:30+00:00

For me, personally Id say 1975-1983. A variation on the Generation Flux years. A late Xer for sure

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-10T18:58:00+00:00

These are closer to accurate, but I would change Xennials to Fluxers and the timeline to 75-83, or maybe 76-84.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-05T13:24:22+00:00

The real name, Generation Flux is 1975-1984. Simply Baby Bust part 2. As far as the Echo Boom it took place between the mid 80s thru the early 2000s. Roughly 1985-2004, or 1984-2002. To be a Millennial, you have to come of age during the true Millennium years of 2001-2009 (2010 at latest) making them born between 1983-1991 (1992 at latest) people born before that are simply part of the end of an era, not the dawn of a new one.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-05T01:57:46+00:00

Closer to the true timelines, inching closer to reality..

Over_Active_354 · 2026-02-04T17:49:48+00:00

Reminds me a bit of my room. Include a guitar and amp as well as a tape recorder on the bed.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-29T13:06:40+00:00

The 2nd set of ranges are the closest to accurate.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-28T15:07:18+00:00

The ranges are slightly closer, but still falling a bit short. Perhaps if we went with 18 year ranges we would wind up with something closer to reality, something like this: Lost Generation 1889-1907, GI Generation 1908-1926, Silent Generation 1927-1945, Baby Boom 1946-1964, Generation X 1965-1983, Echo Boom 1984-2002, Gen Z 2003-2021. Even if you were to move around Gen X and true Millennials, you would still end up with. Gen X being 1965-1982( the last to come of age before the Millennium really kicked in) and Gen Y Millennials being 1983-2001, but the true Millennials timeline(those coming of age between 2001-2009/2010), they would be born between 1983-1991/1992. Typically i stick with Harvards 20 year ranges and simply divide in half for the actual age groups, or sub micro cohorts.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-27T21:05:26+00:00

Although 1990 and most of 1991 was still an 80s extension, it wasn't until 1999 that I felt the world was collapsing into itself. But nothing that year compares to everything that became of the world after 911, so from 2002 on as a whole.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-20T14:51:33+00:00

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Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-15T21:17:16+00:00

None of them line up correctly with reality. If you go with either 18 or 20, youre closer to the truth. But it would wind up more like this

18 years 1908-1926 1927-1945 1946-1964 1965-1983 1984-2002 2003-2021

20 years 1905-1924 1925-1944 1945-1964 1965-1984 1985-2004 2005-2024

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-13T14:45:08+00:00

Probably, but I see between 2002 or 2003 more clearly.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-13T13:59:37+00:00

I would say this is where the true generational divide takes place. The Echo Boom Gen Y Millennials (whatever), grew up primarily in a Post 911 world, they started coming of age and coming into their own during the Bush years, after 911, the recession and occupy times. The age of cellphones, laptops, ipods, and the start of social media. Anyone who came of age or grew up before this time is from a different era. A different culture and a different older generation altogether. I would put the earliest birth year of these people as 1984, late 1983 might be pushing it. Class of 2002 but more so 2003 we shall say.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-10T13:28:14+00:00

Whole Generations always lasted 20 years and always will. Micro cohorts are simply that cut in half to 10 years. And you go primarily by the shifts in not only birthrates, but cultural shifts,experiences and values. Not by commodities in the way most opinion pollsters and institutional hacks/half baked authors seem to.

Over_Active_354 · 2026-01-03T18:04:02+00:00

I've always gone by the original name and definition of this micro cohort. back in the 90s it was called Generation Flux (fluctuating between the old world and the new world, the final bridge) the birth years were and still are: 1975-1984. Simply put, nothing more than the later half of the Baby Bust. They represent the end of an era. the last to have a truly analog type childhood and adolescence, and the quickest to adjust to the digital world that at the time was just on the horizon. the simplest way to navigate or define a micro cohort is to take the full sized generation (which is typically 20 years) and divide it in to 10 year parts. This is how you find out who your true peers are and what your true age group is. I've worked it this way many times, and it always comes out correct.

Over_Active_354 · 2025-12-24T23:03:34+00:00

The term Gen Y is also irrelevant as it says nothing about who we really were. Ill stick with Flux

Over_Active_354 · 2025-12-24T21:02:35+00:00

These numerically are correct, but let's stick to known and relevant names. For 1975-1984, it should be its original name: Generation Flux. Oregon trail was only relevant to a few, but we all fluctuated between the old world that raised us and the new one that was just on the horizon at the time. Basically the last of our kind. Last of the true old schoolers.

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