Evan ProdromouWhy are people born after Gen Z called Gen Alpha and not Gen AA like a spreadsheet column
Were Generation A just Adam and Eve?
Huubje
Lukas Eklund
Camilo
Bradley M. KühnWhen my (our) generation was dubbed Generation X, I thought “well that's some post-modern bullshit”. I'm a weird GenX myself as my parents are/were young baby boomers parents. (Most GenX have Silent Generation parents).
This idea that a letter (not a word) defines our generation … it is what our #punk rock nihilism communicated.
The idea that those behind us are defined by a bullshit letter sequence now? 🤢
IMO Gen Alpha (AA) will be our new Greatest Generation. I have faith in them.
@bkuhn I think we got the name from Douglas Coupland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X%3A_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture
Jordan Biserkov@evan
If you zoom in far enough in that spreadsheet, you'll notice it actually says AlphA
If you zoom in far enough in that spreadsheet, you'll notice it actually says AlphA
UltrasonicMadness (he/him)@evan It would make it too obvious that these terms are primarily used by those who spend too much time looking at spreadsheets. That and those looking to insult others for no reason.
Jima 
@UltrasonicMadness @evan This would seem to be insulting people who spend a lot of time looking at spreadsheets, for no reason. 🙄
Dreamwinder@evan Nothing in life should function like Excel. I realize Excel wasn’t the first spreadsheet program, but nonetheless, it is a place of madness that never functions as it should, and we have enough of that already.
Rebecca Wallace@evan Sometimes my kids make me scream AAAAAA
Jane
clew
James Endres Howell
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
jurishon
diffie :3 (bindiff)
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESbecause AA is Alcoholics Anonymous and Gen Z doesn't drink alcohol (extrapolating to Gen Alpha: cigarettes aren't rebounding for example)
Gurre Vildskägg@evan
Just call 'em by the decade they're born in.
Boomers are the last "generation" that made sense.
Just call 'em by the decade they're born in.
Boomers are the last "generation" that made sense.
Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺@Gurre @evan I never managed to learn these terms. I thought they would fade and I wouldn't have to learn them.
But reading this makes me realise they'll never die, new ones keep popping up. I need to look them up somewhere.
I think I know boomers (born right after WWII) and millennials (born around 2000). But X and Y and alpha? Are there more? Why don't they teach this in school? And when its referred its never with an explanation attached.
@Gurre @evan I think it stems from marketing, when you sell a report on consumer behaviour and preferences, its customary to set a "cool term" for the segment of the population you've analysed and you're declaring all new and special, that requires new special marketing strategies, or at least new tactics.
To me these labels are 'boomer labels', I thought they would go away... Not helpful at all if you need to look them up.
prokyonid@leanderlindahl @Gurre @evan it gets worse, because the terms don't necessarily make sense and have overlaps!
X is after boomers and is largely arbitrary as a name.
Y and Millenials are the same. Y is just to follow on from X. Millenials weren't actually born around 2000, but are called that because they're the first generation to 'come of age' after 2000. They were born from roughly the mid 80s to the mid 90s.
Z is to follow X and Y, and are also called 'Zoomers' for largely arbitrary reasons.
@leanderlindahl @Gurre @evan However, the entire idea of classifying generations this way is mostly just to propagate us-v-them culture war nonsense. Just for one example, in the US early millenials and late gen-X tend to have more in common with each other than with the rest of their respective cohorts because of their status as 'of-age' adults at the start of the 'War on Terror.' It'd make more sense for them to be their own cohort than lumped in with two others.
@prokyonid @leanderlindahl @evan
wørd to all of that.
Aedan Cullen
urig
Arapalla
Brian Danger Hicks@evan In Norway they're Generation Æ
Johanna, CanCon variety@evan Given that we started at X, we could've just called them A. None of us will be around long enough to make it BACK to X, so there's not likely to be confusion.
OTOH, are today's kids the alpha release version of our cyber-integrated species? 🤣
Great, we'll have a stable release candidate sometime after 2080.