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:dead: damn yall trying to make us sound like some old farts.
I think yall are confusing Gen X with Boomers which is hilarious to me.


We grew up with the internet. Dont forget Gen. X were majority of the dot.com founders, first Internet adopters in mass, first internet forum users, first to pirate music etc.

Maybe you mean our adoption to Social Media lagged behind Millenilas?

Gen X becoming more conservative is expected as people tend to become more conservative as they get older.

Nah, I said what I meant. Xennials mark the boundary, somewhere around 78-85.

Someone born in 76 at the end of GenX was 24 in Y2K, 19 when Windows 95 came out and 20 when AOL stopped charging by the hour - they didn't grow up on the Internet the same way someone born in 1982 did unless they were a full-on costume-at-the-D&D-game level nerd.

By the time Xennials were late teens it was mainstream, taking over culture and there wasn't a way to avoid it. Most of our social lives grew around it whereas GenX could stay offline longer if they wanted to because they'd built their social lives offline.

Millennials are getting their first smartphones before they've left school. Whole different experience, but Xennials are the bridge. One foot in, one foot out.

I was 18 in 2000, my bro was 24 - we had the same childhoods up until I got on CompuServe in 1995 when he'd already left for University - my friends were all using SMS and ICQ before we left school, spending lunch hacking the library computers so we could play Quake. My bro got given an email address when he enrolled at university in 1994, didn't use it once in four years and it wasn't seen as a weird thing because he wasn't a nerd and he had all his important numbers written on bits of cigarette paper around his flat somewhere probably.:snoop:
 
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Nah, I said what I meant. Xennials mark the boundary, somewhere around 78-85.

Someone born in 76 at the end of GenX was 24 in Y2K, 19 when Windows 95 came out and 20 when AOL stopped charging by the hour - they didn't grow up on the Internet the same way someone born in 1982 did unless they were a full-on costume-at-the-D&D-game level nerd.

By the time Xennials were late teens it was mainstream, taking over culture and there wasn't a way to avoid it. Most of our social lives grew around it whereas GenX could stay offline longer if they wanted to because they'd built their social lives offline.

Millennials are getting their first smartphones before they've left school. Whole different experience, but Xennials are the bridge. One foot in, one foot out.

I was 18 in 2000, my bro was 24 - we had the same childhoods up until I got on CompuServe in 1995 when he'd already left for University - my friends were all using SMS and ICQ before we left school, spending lunch hacking the library computers so we could play Quake. My bro got given an email address when he enrolled at university in 1994, didn't use it once in four years and it wasn't seen as a weird thing because he wasn't a nerd and he had all his important numbers written on bits of cigarette paper around his flat somewhere probably.:snoop:
This could be a separate thread. But cook, I think there's something to that generation and older is more likely to get fooled/tricked by the net and social media. Where are generation and younger are simply more experienced.
 
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