Brosephine WiresDec 16, 2022

I saw a poll like this last week, but I thought it would be cool to do it again with another major migration underway. Boost so we can get a better sampling.

#twittermigration #poll

Boomer
17.6%
Gen X
45.7%
Millennial
30.7%
Gen Z
6%
Poll ended at .
Show threadPeggy StuartDec 17, 2022
@JoParkerBear My generation isn't there. Maybe because there aren't very many of us, so we don't have a name. I'm a WWII baby, pre-Boomer. #twittermigration #LetMuskHaveTheBird
Show threadAndy Paciorek 💀☕

@PeggyStuart
People born between 1928 and 1945 are known as 'The Silent Generation'
My 96 year old father was born in 1926 which lies in 'The Greatest Generation' (or in US sometimes called G.I. Generation) 1901 - 1927
Before that is 'The Lost Generation' 1883 - 1901

There was no official caterorisation prior to that.

Dec 17, 2022 at 1:37amWeb
Show threadAndyHDec 17, 2022

@AndyPaciorekArt @PeggyStuart

It's called the Silent Generation, because they went through the depression and WWII and didn't have a life until 1946.

Show threadPeggy StuartDec 17, 2022
@AndyHarrison @AndyPaciorekArt I missed the Great Depression, but my parents and in-laws went through it. My BIL was born in '38, so he’s closer. Hubs was born in '41 and I was born in '42. There were/are few of us because so many were gone for the approaching and then the actual war. My father was a preacher and too old to be drafted. My FIL was career Navy and home on leave. Otherwise we would not exist. I think we deserve a separate category. 🙄
Show threadPeggy StuartDec 17, 2022
@AndyPaciorekArt Silent because there are few of us? (Relatively speaking…or not, since we’re silent?) President Biden is my age. He isn’t so silent. 😁
Show threadAndy Paciorek 💀☕Dec 17, 2022
@PeggyStuart
I think mostly due to lower numbers and as someone else mentioned that formative years were spent in The Depression and/or WWII
Show threadPeggy StuartDec 17, 2022
@AndyPaciorekArt Yes. My parents had been married for nine years before they could afford to have my brother in 1940. My mother said they lived on oatmeal during the depression.
Show threadAndy Paciorek 💀☕Dec 17, 2022
@PeggyStuart
Hard times indeed. I am fascinated by the dust bowl and have some books of FSA documentary photography of the time.