What year should be the cutoff to be a millennial?
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They're not millennials.....
many sites differ of their opinion on what is classified as a millennial. I believe it to be anyone born after 1981. Those born in 77-81 are often referred to as the Oregon Trail Generation which is between X and Y (millennials)
Lil Debbie
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Most sources i've seen have the cutoff at 2000
While I agree with your post...
Where's the fun in that?
Most of the entertainment on this website comes people talking out of their asses.
The is rise of technology has made the 20 year generational model obsolete IMO. I and a nikka born in 83 have totally different coming of ages.
ain't no way in hell nikkas born in 77 is millennials. 
You got damn right I am:HennyBron:you gonna just skip all the posts and resources in this thread after your first post and say this like it's a fact
There's no consensus, that was the first thing I said, even the post below my second said that. And it shows because every source varies.
What are the origins of generation names?
Anything after my birth year.
I grew up Gen Y and didn't hear about Millenials extending all the way through the early 80s until the 2010s.
I have more in common with people born in the mid to late 70s than any 90s baby. Their generational milestones and stereotypes don't apply.
If you dont remember the first Gulf War, Mandela being freed, Jesse running for president, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dot com bubble, those huge QUBE cable remotes with all the buttons up and down the sides, adults freakin out over the rise of grunge and gangsta rap and getting those advisory stickers slapped on albums so you needed I.D. or an adult to buy music, heroin chic, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Unabomber, Pac and Biggie pre mortem, the inescapable fukkery of the OJ show, Dan vs Dave, 'why can't we all just get along', installing Ethernet cards, msdos, withdrawing denominations smaller than $20 from the atm, 5 1/4 and 8 inch floppy disks, The Box, the school shooter era, the trench coat mafia, Clinton on Arsenio, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing...
we don't share a generation
I grew up Gen Y and didn't hear about Millenials extending all the way through the early 80s until the 2010s.
I have more in common with people born in the mid to late 70s than any 90s baby. Their generational milestones and stereotypes don't apply.
If you dont remember the first Gulf War, Mandela being freed, Jesse running for president, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dot com bubble, those huge QUBE cable remotes with all the buttons up and down the sides, adults freakin out over the rise of grunge and gangsta rap and getting those advisory stickers slapped on albums so you needed I.D. or an adult to buy music, heroin chic, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Unabomber, Pac and Biggie pre mortem, the inescapable fukkery of the OJ show, Dan vs Dave, 'why can't we all just get along', installing Ethernet cards, msdos, withdrawing denominations smaller than $20 from the atm, 5 1/4 and 8 inch floppy disks, The Box, the school shooter era, the trench coat mafia, Clinton on Arsenio, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing...
we don't share a generation
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
technology isn't the sole governing factor - it's things like health, sense of self, world events, health issues, socio/political events, beliefs, and customs - all of that collectively shapes a generation more than stupid shyt like people under 25 use snapchat of 35+ use facebook
FreedS[ohh]lave
Banned
That's what I'm saying and why millenials can't be such a large generation
If u were born in the early 80's with rotary phones VHS no internet no cell phones its a life people born a decade later can't even fathom
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
by the time people born 81-87 were 7-10 (anytime before that most people are playing with toys or outside) they had access to computers, internet, video games, cordless phones, people's parent's had cell phones,
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filial_piety
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I was born in the same year, and from what I can remember for years, I've always been referred to as Generation X...basically we're the baby boomers kids. I think the cutoff by most estimates is somewhere from 81-83.
My parents are the population boom that resulted from the end of the second world war.
So that's one way to look at it....part of this might have to include just when your parents were born...some estimate that it would either be between those who were born between 1943-1960 or between 1946 and 1964. My guess is that the cut off date should be sometime around the early 1960s. I personally would say that your parents would have had to been born between 1945 and 1960.
My pop is Vietnam marine vet from the late 60s, and my brother was born in 1970.
Both of my parents were born in the late 1940s-- I just can't see myself in the same light as someone's parents who were born in the late 60's or 70s because those parents would have just become adults in the 80s and 90s...
Just to add some clarity on the generation differences.... A while ago, I asked my parents about their Hip Hop knowledge and what it was like in the 70s and early 80s and all they could say was "
...boy that was kid's music to us...we grew up on the Supremes, and the Four Tops...you ever seen Cooley High? That's what our times were like" 
Now my brother and older cousins grew up on break dancing, beat boxing, the Fat boys, RUN DMC etc ...I remember all a dat when it was going down...and that is world's apart from what my parents experienced...
Plus...I would include knowledge about the internet, that's probably the biggest technological shift in the last 100 years, it's our modern day "industrial revolution"...and I remember life WELL before the internet became mainstream. Heck, I was still typing up my homework assignments on typewriters back then until processors really became a household product. And if you wanna throw cell phones in there...I can honestly say that no one that I knew had a cell phone in HS....that all become mainstream by the time I was a sophomore in college...shyt I still have my black Motorolla StarTec from 2000 that I refuse to throw out...
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