What year should be the cutoff to be a millennial?

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

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, dvd players, cd players...you acting like someone born in 81-87 REALLY dealt with that. by the time i was old enough to have my own stuff (bought for me) it wasn't limited 80's technology

Im talking early 80's.from 81 to 87 to me is a huge difference.

How many people born in 81 had computers DVD players etc at 7-10?

Late 80's early 90's there weren't many people who had computers. Nobody had dvd's or cell phones except rich people with the huge Zach Morris phone

 

[Londilon]

Generational Breakdown: Info About All of the Generations – GEN HQ

most generations last for 20 years. new Millennial's will stop at the year 2020.

So anyone who reaches 21 from the year 2000 - 2020 is a Millennial.

 

[Rice'N Beckford]

Im gen z
fukk Milennials

You cornball ass kids are soft fukk up

 

[Londilon]

You do realize damn near every generation has been ~15-20 year cohorts, more to do with defining generations than technology use and whether y'all were in elementary at the same time. I don't know why y'all can't just read the articles on the generations as opposed to making these "I don't think it should be this way because they had cell phones at 10" types threads.

Its because a lot of the Generation Z want so badly to be a Millennials because the news and everything on the internet is tailored to Millennial.

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

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.

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...

Exactly the internet plays such a huge part and made such a big difference in just a few years time that i judge millenials/non millenials on how early you grew up with the internet because I think it was that big a cultural shift that it determines generations imo

I used typewriters in school. I didn't even have a computer class till 7th grade which consisted of one floppy disk and Oregon trail

 

[Londilon]

But u have to take into consideration the technology boom over the past 10 years or so has changed things as dramatically as we've seen

Also if the textbook definition is people who became young adults at the turn of the millennium then millenials would cut off by the mid 80's and turn into gen y

A lot of Gen Z have no history about the internet before 2000. This is why they think that no one used the internet before the iPhone became a thing. Want to know something? Amazon existed in the 90s first as a online bookstore.

 

[Londilon]

2000 is when it should start because you were born in the millenium hence the prefix milleni- and end at 2010

logic

how can a baby have any effect to whats going on in 2000? Someone born in 2000 is a gen Z.

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

A lot of Gen Z have no history about the internet before 2000. This is why they think that no one used the internet before the iPhone became a thing. Want to know something? Amazon existed in the 90s first as a online bookstore.

Of course it existed I'm talking about it booming and becoming mainstream to where everyone had a computer

In the 80's and early 90's you know me a person who had a computer but he was the only one

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Im talking early 80's.from 81 to 87 to me is a huge difference.

How many people born in 81 had computers DVD players etc at 7-10?

Late 80's early 90's there weren't many people who had computers. Nobody had dvd's or cell phones except rich people with the huge Zach Morris phone

we had computers in my house by 91 (and even if you didn't own one - you had them at school), a windows computer in 94, AOL - i.e. the internet - in 96, my parents had cell phones in 96/97 - this is when they were becoming mass market, not when it meant every kid had one, but when a lot of adults who weren't rich could start affording them. this is a middle class home, we weren't on no fresh prince of bel air shyt. and again, i already stated tech is not the end all be all to a generation. look at gen x (mid 60's - late 70's/early 80's)...tech changed rapidly there as well and there are still much bigger themes that tie it together as a generation

i am tripping on DVD players...those weren't hot until around 2000+

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

we had computers in my house by 91 (and even if you didn't own one - you had them at school), a windows computer in 94, AOL - i.e. the internet - in 96, my parents had cell phones in 96/97 - this is when they were becoming mass market, not when it meant every kid had one, but when a lot of adults who weren't rich could start affording them. this is a middle class home, we weren't on no fresh prince of bel air shyt. and again, i already stated tech is not the end all be all to a generation. look at gen x (mid 60's - late 70's/early 80's)...tech changed rapidly there as well and there are still much bigger themes that tie it together as a generation

i am tripping on DVD players...those weren't hot until around 2000+

Yeah some people had computers but I'm taking about when it boomed to the point where everyone had to have a computer which wasn't till late 90's 2000

My friend had it around 96 and u could go in chat rooms but that was the extent. And the phone rang and got u off it so u couldn't stay on long

It's not like now where I have social media and people are on it all the time

 

[Black Magisterialness]

For me its basically around 83 to 95. My brother, who was born in 94 has some shared experiences with me culturally. My sister who was born in 97 doesn't know a world before the internet and cell phones.

 

[filial_piety]

Exactly the internet plays such a huge part and made such a big difference in just a few years time that i judge millenials/non millenials on how early you grew up with the internet because I think it was that big a cultural shift that it determines generations imo

I used typewriters in school. I didn't even have a computer class till 7th grade which consisted of one floppy disk and Oregon trail

It's the most telling difference imo...

I mean the internet has been around for a few decades now....But I can remember when I first used it...and it was in 1996 and my HS library had two computers that had access to it. My parents would later get windows 95 in 1997. BUT prior to 1995, the internet was just unheard of amongst most people. I mean most people probably heard the word "internet" back in 1995, but they wouldn't be able to tell you anything about it really..completely unimaginable.

We're in many ways the last generation to do things the same way our parents and grand parents did them, which is the most telling because that is a major cutting point in the generations.

I mean even thinking about employment prospects is a big factor....before 9/11. I had had a few jobs by then, prior to that I never worried about whether jobs would be available or whether gas prices were out of control....shyt when I started driving...gas was 1.10 a gallon and with most jobs you applied to them in person and on paper. Before 2001, I never thought about illegal immigration and job security...or terrorist attacks being the norm. The psychology behind all of this is just completely different.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

I know they count it in 20 year increments but I was born in the early 90s so I consider people between 86 and 96 in my generation.

If I was to make an official declaration on millennials it would be this, if you were inside a classroom on 9/11 you're a millennial.

 

[Londilon]

Also people forget that in 85 the NES was a big thing. Then a few years later SNES came out and then the PS1 was out in the 90s along with N64. A lot of Gene Z's do not know the history of a lot of the technology they use.

 

[Londilon]

I know they count it in 20 year increments but I was born in the early 90s so I consider people between 86 and 96 in my generation.

If I was to make an official declaration on millennials it would be this, if you were inside a classroom on 9/11 you're a millennial.

people born in 85+ were also in a classroom (high school)