As a fellow Gen Zer I feel like there is a generational gap. I want to see if I’m trippin or there actually is one.

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    4 months ago

    Notice how it’s “Older Millennial, younger millennial, etc”. You don’t use those qualifiers with the other generations

    Of course you do. I, a young millennial, have a lot more in common with my old genZer sister than she does with a young genZer born in 2011. It’s an important distinction because we both didn’t get smart phones until we didn’t have smart phones until late teens at least, while young genZers weren’t even born when the iPhone was first released.

    My parents are young boomers. For my dad that means he never had to worry about getting drafted like his older boomer brothers.

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        4 months ago

        1997–2012 is the definition used by Pew (which also uses the oft-quoted 1981–1996 definition for millennials). Statistics Canada uses 2012 too, while the US census uses 2013.

        But anyway, the earliest cutoff I could find was 2010, which is what the Australian Bureau of Statistics uses, and my point still works for 2010 kids. (The ABS’s other boundaries also don’t change the fact that I’m young millennial but my sister old gen Z, or that my parents are young boomers, either. So every point I was making still works.)