The Glade 4.0

Just out of curiosity, where do the Gladers fall in here? In listing the span of birth years here, I’ve found that there’s no universal agreement as to where they specifically fall. I’ve taken the info from Wiki and defined the birth years as you see here. Pick what you think applies to you if there’s overlap or if you’re on the edge of one and feel the adjacent category is really yours.

I don't particularly care one way or the other, but it is only in recent years that the boundary for Gen X has been expanded to include me. I suspect that ten years from now, it will be pushed all the way out to 1985, and Gen Y will run all the way out past 2000.

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Coro, I think you're probably right. X,Y, and Z seem really to be only 2 different generations...pre-internet and post-internet.

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According to the dates, I'm Y. But I have absolutely nothing in common with those people and I hate them.

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I'm a late Boomer by those numbers. It's probably the group I relate to the most, although like most streotypes, it's not a perfect fit.

This. Early GenY, but really feel more like a GenX.

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Growing up, I was most definitely Gen Y, while my brother was solidly within Gen X. There were very clearly evident reasons why the two of us should be different generations, despite both being the children of the same pair of Baby Boomers. Sometime around about the time I turned 22 or 23, all of those differences that fundamentally made us members of two distinctly separate generations vanished and I have suddenly become Gen X. I have a great deal more in common with my brother than someone born after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I suspect that what happened was we had no idea what made Generation X and Generation Y what they were because not enough of us were adults, yet. The best definition for Gen Y that I can see is that they aren't Gen X, but they remember a time before the new millennium that we all made such a big deal out of. But they're different from Gen X, somehow!

Y and Z present the same problem. Gen Y is about eight to ten years long, now. That... isn't a generation of humanity.

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Yeah, this. Born May 10, 1982, but that wasn't always GenX.

Late Gen X by those numbers. I find it interesting that the generations (even going back to the early ones listed) are growing smaller.

Greatest Generation: 23 years
Silent Generation: 20 years
Baby Boomers: 18 years
Gen X: 17 years
Gen Y: 12? years
Gen Z: 18 or whatever.

I'm with LK.. I think we're only on the trailing edge of whatever will shake down to be the second post-Boomer generation. I don't know whether that means that Gen Y will be subsumed, split, or greatly expanded to crowd out whatever people think Z is (but really, how can you have a generational identity for a group whose oldest members are barely 20, depending on whom you ask?)...

My guess is that Gen Y (and maybe even the last third of Gen X, which may have a bleed-into-effect on how the rest is viewed) may find that they still haven't found their definitive experience as a generational identity, and so I expect those boundaries to change dramatically over the next decade to fifteen years.

In other words, what Coro said, for the most part.

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The first three are defined as "fought in WW2," "born before WW2 but too young to participate," and, "born after WW2."

I suspect Gen X has been clearly defined as, "able to vote by 2000," and will not be amended any further. If you'll notice, the Boomers ends right around the civil rights movement.

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I think that the velocity of change has an effect on that. Pop-culture shifts so much more quickly as do technological advances. So it would make sense that generations would compress.

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I wouldn't be surprised to see Gen X remembered as the generation that built and shaped the Internet.

I suspect Gen Y will be remembered as the generation that commoditized it. As such, I support re-dubbing Gen Y "The iPhone Generation."

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I will have to kill myself if I'm ever considered "The iPhone generation." After killing many people that have iPhones, of course.

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Yeah, you sound like GenY.

I'm starting with you.

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I'll dial it on my iPhone if you like.

Is it just me, or is the graph giving us the finger?

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You have 6 fingers?

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Someone was looking for you.

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Lol

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X, but really I consider naming generations to be a silly practice, attempting to create artificial divisions in order to..

I have no idea in order to what. A few of them make sense like the Lost and Greatest generation but after that, there's no real significance to any of them. The fact that they can't think of anything better than X, Y, and Z for the last 3 illustrates the pointlessness of the entire exercise.

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Generation X was named because the event that would actually define them as a group had not yet happened at the time when people were trying to decide what timespan would encompass them. Frankly, there will never be an actual name because their parents and grandparents saw that the Gen X label would stick long before they were ever going to make the contribution to society that they might be best known for.

Look at where Y stops. The best definition we currently have for Generation Y is, "People who have graduated from high school, but are not Gen X." That's it. That's what we've got. That's why it's so small. Generation Y currently stops in 1993 (not explicitly stated, but you can bet that's the dividing line). Next year, it will go all the way to 1994. That's why they don't give a year, just "mid 90s," but if you notice, Generation Z starts in "early 90s" - so there's a two or three year overlap between Y and Z where someone is in both?

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I think Gen-Y is going to assault Gen-Z until it gets pushed back to 2000. Then it will have a full 18 years like Gen-X.

These generations are a bunch of bullshit.

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This illustrates the silliness, or rather the pointlessness. People started wanting to name the lost, greatest, and silent generation and baby boomers, but they just had to name all the generations at once.. for what reason? What purpose does it serve to draw arbitrary lines between children being born and slap labels on them?

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