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Missing The PointWhich generation has the strongest argument that they are typically ignored?
The Silent Generation
The Baby Boomers
Millennials
Gen Z
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T. Austin Brown@MissingThePt umβ¦
Thomas H Jones II@ferricoxide @MissingThePt Iβd want to see the results of the poll, but I canβt bring myself to check any of those boxes for some reason.
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@knf100 @TechBean @ferricoxide @MissingThePt clever. Possibly from having to figure out how to program the VCR for your parents, use DOS to play video games, and microwave your own tv dinner while your parents were out?
@AustinB @knf100 @ferricoxide @MissingThePt
I learned how to type on an Atari 400.
And I liked it!
guy,in,a,hat@AustinB @TechBean @knf100 @ferricoxide @MissingThePt that's nothing. I had the mechanical one and we had to carry it to school.
@werefreeatlast @TechBean @knf100 @ferricoxide @MissingThePt the mechanical one really required some physical force to move the keys.
@AustinB @werefreeatlast @knf100 @ferricoxide @MissingThePt
The worst one I ever used was an electric typewriter with a ball that would spin to the correct letter and strike a ribbon. It never worked cleanly.
The worst one I ever used was an electric typewriter with a ball that would spin to the correct letter and strike a ribbon. It never worked cleanly.
@TechBean @werefreeatlast @knf100 @ferricoxide @MissingThePt that was the selectric. Yours probably needed a visit from a highly trained service technician from IBM.
@AustinB @werefreeatlast @TechBean @knf100 @MissingThePt
Probably why changing to a Selectric upped my rated typing speed past 100wpm (typing was actually offered as an elective in my highschool).
Probably why changing to a Selectric upped my rated typing speed past 100wpm (typing was actually offered as an elective in my highschool).
kristophr
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Roadskater, Ph.D.@AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt There it goes. I never felt like I was either Boomer or GenX so have long resented such clumsy Wikipedia-style labeling. (For reference. I was 6 months old when JFK was assassinated.) So.... not voting, although I think all the generations are whiny in their own terrible ways.
FippleStone
Ed@roadskater @AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt "although I think all the generations are whiny in their own terrible ways."
Fairly sure that take makes you a Boomer, even if only honorarily.
@EdCates @roadskater @AustinB @MissingThePt
Normal Xer response is more along the lines ofβ¦
Roger Moore@roadskater @AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt
The term "Generation X" was originally coined for people born in 1961-64, who were part of the demographic baby boom but were left out of it socially. I don't know how it got applied to the whole post-boom generation.
The term "Generation X" was originally coined for people born in 1961-64, who were part of the demographic baby boom but were left out of it socially. I don't know how it got applied to the whole post-boom generation.
@VATVSLPR @roadskater @ferricoxide @MissingThePt They couldn't be bothered to come up with a name for those of us born between 1964 and 1980.
Jeramee@AustinB @VATVSLPR @roadskater @ferricoxide @MissingThePt
They were all busy. Our parents were busy working and trying to make ends meet, while our leaders were busy trying to control the world for their MIC donors.
icastico@VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt
That is βGeneration Jonesβ.
Keith Ammann@VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt β¦ and DETACHED from the demographic to which it originally applied!?
@VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @MissingThePt
Weird, because, prior to GenX, the generational cohorts sociologists *targeted* were generally 20-year chunks. Wasn't until technology accelerated things that that changed to 15-year chunks (even there, you have sub-cohorts like "Xennials"). That acceleration also caused them to retroactively decide, "no, there's actually 'Boomer I' and 'Boomer II' sub-cohorts".
dagnymol@VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt And millennial was invented for those coming of age at the millennium (i.e. those graduating high school in 2000 or thereabouts) and it was expanded so far that those it was invented for are treated as weird outliers within the classification that was invented for them; once the millennium came and went with neither flying cars nor global apocalypse they had no more use for us.
@dagnymol @VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @MissingThePt
Yeah. Originally they cut GenX by five years to create the Millennial cohort, but then they cut the end off Millennials, too (so, it's now 1981 to 1996).
That said, some of these changes are more based in *marketing* cohorts than strictly sociological ones. So, the boundaries seem to depend on who you ask and when. :p
@ferricoxide @VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @MissingThePt The marketing cohorts could explain why elder millennials started getting memory holed around the time we reached the dreaded 35.
@dagnymol @VATVSLPR @roadskater @AustinB @MissingThePt
Nah. You'll all be remembered for being a bunch of whining participation-trophy kids. But at least the older millennials didn't quite have the degree of world-nerfing that later-millennials' parents wanted to perpetrate.
Any way, GINORMOUS π on the above.
Resuna@resuna @VATVSLPR @AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt Except for the crap about "jonesing", I feel seen.
The Saanich Daily@AustinB @ferricoxide @MissingThePt You can just hit the vote button without making a selection and it will show the results
@TheSaanichDaily @ferricoxide @MissingThePt #til more useful info from the generation that was expected to do their own laundry by guessing what the pictures on the dial meant?
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I hate it. Well done.
I hate it. Well done.
Der EmilThis one that exists before the Silent Generation.
KriPfeifer@DerEmil @MissingThePt That would indeed be very interesting. I am researching on that generation and they lived really through dreadful times. Here, I voted for Gen Z.
@DerEmil @MissingThePt
The generation before the Silents was the GI generation, who absolutely were not ignored.
The generation before the Silents was the GI generation, who absolutely were not ignored.
Danny
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Redrua@MissingThePt Perect. No notes.
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Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy@MissingThePt I see what you did there. My generation isnβt even an option because OK boomer.
Ali@MissingThePt Dammit.
Cycling Stu@grissallia @MissingThePt <joins in staring>
Mark Asser@MissingThePt I see what you didn't do there, and it's fabulous.
Janet D. Stemwedel@MissingThePt Stares in GenX
your auntifa liza π΅π· π¦ π¦¦@drfreeride @MissingThePt indeed. they truly missed the point in this one.
OldAndCranky
Somcak@MissingThePt username checks out.
Michele@MissingThePt @EthanHolmes hahahahahahahaha
podkaynelives@MissingThePt π¨βπ³'s π
Brosephine Wires@MissingThePt as a millennial myself, how are we currently in second place?? It may be mostly negative attention, but we get lots of it.
@MissingThePt lol and I just got the joke π