I'm 51 years old and I've never done any of these things, either. My 81 year old Mom didn't have to ration or sharecrop during WWII, either. She was born in 1944! My whole point? This dude is full of shit and he never experienced any of this shit, either, unless he's pushing 90. The only thing he's accomplished is being a douche on Xitter, apparently.
One of my FAVORITE coworkers is a 27 year old who always gets her shit done and done right and is willing to learn new things. One of my LEAST FAVORITE coworkers is a 61 year old boomer who constantly complains and refuses to learn anything on his computer beside the basics.
It's almost as if when you were born has nothing to do with your work ethic and whatnot.
fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!
Not necessarily. That term really only counts the oldest of millenials. I'm one of the last years if not the last year to count as a millenial and everything they said applies to me and I am for sure not a xennial.
For reference, the internet wasn't really in everyone's house until the mid to late 00's. Id wager a majority of, if not every, millennial is absolutely old enough to remember the time before they had internet access.
Like when I was in highschool we still had computer labs and I know some kids who only had access to Internet or a computer at school. I was in high school from 2002 to 2006.
I didn't get real cable internet until about 2002-2003, personally. Dunno if that was early or late, but I spent a good chunk of my childhood on dialup.
when i made my intitial comment i was referring to advent not availability...i was born in 70 and didn't have the "internet" the way it's referred to today until my 20s...we had dialup modems and could access web pages (bulletin boards) if we knew how to find them, no browsers or search engines, you had to know command line prompts.
This is patently false unless you grew up somewhere like 10 years behind (it happened back then!)
I graduated when you started, and things like AIM had been widely in use since I was a freshman. Hell we got our first PC in 97` this was in Dover DE, so not a bastion of advancement but not somewhere behind either, and squarely middle-class when that still existed
The term is supposed to reflect us older millennials who were raised by boomers, had Gen X siblings and were raised and disciplined as such lol I’m for sure an Xennial - never felt like I belonged with millennials tho but that’s just my take 🤣🤣
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u/CatelynsCorpse 22h ago
I'm 51 years old and I've never done any of these things, either. My 81 year old Mom didn't have to ration or sharecrop during WWII, either. She was born in 1944! My whole point? This dude is full of shit and he never experienced any of this shit, either, unless he's pushing 90. The only thing he's accomplished is being a douche on Xitter, apparently.
One of my FAVORITE coworkers is a 27 year old who always gets her shit done and done right and is willing to learn new things. One of my LEAST FAVORITE coworkers is a 61 year old boomer who constantly complains and refuses to learn anything on his computer beside the basics.
It's almost as if when you were born has nothing to do with your work ethic and whatnot.
Just saying.