What year should be the cutoff to be a millennial?

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

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[The Coochie Assassin]

Okay well it was his presidency I got the years mixed up I remember seeing Mandela being on the News and South Africa rejoicing

I was born in 1990 too...I knew you were talking about his presidency, not getting outta prison

I still call BS on that too tho I think you created this memory after learning about history while growing up

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

I was born in 1990 too...I knew you were talking about his presidency, not getting outta prison

I still call BS on that too tho I think you created this memory after learning about history while growing up

why would I do that

this isn't something cool to brag about

If I wanted to post history I would have made it more elaborate

LMAO why would I tell everyone here I'm unemployed and don't get p*ssy only to lie about being born in 1990?

argue with me about what I experienced?


you dudes are straight retarded

by that logic I don't believe you were born in 1990 either

People on the coli will argue you with you about anything even your own experiences

 

[Shadow King]

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

While that's all true, technology has changed how we are exposed to those concepts and how we deal with them...i.e. the "Millennials Don't Go Out Thread" you can see the different views on young adulthood for someone who turned 21 in 2005 vs today.

 

[Londilon]

dawg you don't remember Mandela being freed in 1990 when you were born in 1990 you heard about the shyt LATER

he is a stupid troll who has no knowledge of historical facts but claims to know everything about history lol

 

[MalikX]

Millennials means you came of age during the 2000s/turn of the century.

So that's 1980 to 1995 but, honestly you can squeeze some of the 70s babies in there like 78 and 79 because they would've been college kids then. Anybody born after 95 would've been in diapers and are Gen Z.

 

[MalikX]

I was born in 88. I went to college three years later than I should've so most of my friends were 91-93 babies. Fit right in. Basically anyone born between 86 and 93 feels like one generation. It's when you get to them 95, 96, 97 babies, there's a massive cut off and you start going into Gen Z. Completely different generation. I won't shyt on them but, I feel more connection with older people born in the early 80s than I do with people born in the later 90s and beyond. They can't imagine a world without Snapchat, Instagram and Youtube.

 

[MalikX]

Remember that time Kanye called himself a millennial?

nikka older than me and I can't call myself one lol. When did they start calling millennials millennials? That word wasn't thrown around till a few years ago.

Well one...being a rapper keeps him into a state of arrested development and more connected to youth culture than he would've been as a normal everyday dude. But I mean, most generations are 20 years. I honestly think some of the later 70s babies are millennials. You can have your older millennials (78 - 84), middle millennials (85 - 90) and later millennials (91 - 95). All it means if you were of age or coming of age at the turn of the century. So if you were at college smoking and getting laid in 2001, it applies. If you were in high school or middle school then, it applies. And if you were in 5th grade, it applies. You're just excluded if you were baby then or 30 years old.

 

[How Sway?]

I always thought it was anybody born between the early 80s and the mid 90s .

As for me personally I can relate to most people born around 95/96 but after that I start to feel the gen shift.

In other words Im to them.

 

[8WON6]

i was born in 82. I'm 35. I have very little in common with anyone 25 or younger.

 

[winb83]

I was born in 80 so i know im not one but I find it interesting that there's so many different opinions of when the millennial generation starts.

I've seen anywhere from like 81-86 being the start. Now it seems they are saying millenials start in 82.

Imo I don't think early 80's should be included in the millennial category. What does someone born in 82 have in common with someone born early 90's? Two completely different experiences

Millennials to me grew up with technology. Had computers at an early age. Had cellphones or at least cellphones becoming popular and available when they were at least very early teenagers

A millennial is someone who came into adulthood around the start of the new millennium. If you were born in 1982 then you graduated from high school in 2000. If you were born in 83 you graduated from high school in 2001. Those are nail on the head for becoming an adult at the start of the new millennium. The problem is the term has kinda gotten away from what it originally meant. Even you're equating millennials to technology when it's really about when the generation became adults.
millennials - Dictionary.com

The term millennial was first introduced by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their 1991 book Generations. It was coined to describe the generational cohort of people born between 1980 and 2000. One of the reasons behind the name is the fact that the oldest millennials were graduating high school in the year 2000 (the beginning of the new millennium).

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

Millennials are Generation Y. It's another term for them. Again being a millennial isn't about technology as much as it's about when you came into adulthood. It's why the generation after gen Y is called Gen Z or Zoomers. Millennials are often the children of late generation Baby Boomers who were born closer to the 60s. They become adults by the early 80s and have kids. Earlier generation baby boomers are the parents of Generation X.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

my brother was born in 84 and i was born in 89 and even that five years made a difference

My bro remembers shyt from the 80's and spent his entire childhood without access to the internet. I don't remember shyt before 93 and we got our first desktop computer in 97/98? (not sure) so I remember pretending to be sick so i could stay home and fukk around on the net

That made a difference in our approach to tech. My bro graduated high school in 2002 and everything was face to face and thru home phones while I was using message boards, AIM and Myspace in high school.