Evan ProdromouWhy are people born after Gen Z called Gen Alpha and not Gen AA like a spreadsheet column
Gurre Vildskägg@evan
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.