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Comment by theseanz

15 hours ago

Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials.

Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

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rf15  14 hours ago

Impressive how many people posting here love the gen [XYZ] categories and feel offended when they are not put in the correctly labeled drawer. ...Shouldn't we move on from this and obsess about something more fun?

  • cannonpr  14 hours ago

    The label unless you grew up in the Anglo sphere is also especially meaningless, yet certain people insist in labelling the rest of us :) I got to enjoy Phreaking well into the era most others already had ADSL…

zetsurin  15 hours ago

you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

  • QuantumNomad_  15 hours ago

    But also:

    > Xennials, also called Xillenials, are a social cohort encompassing people born on the cusp of or during the later years of Generation X and the early years of the Millennials generation.

    > Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983, though some extend this further in either direction. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

    • hdgvhicv  15 hours ago

      Depends a lot on your background. I was online in 1994 as a kid, but my peers weren’t until nearer 1999. Same age. We all got mobile phones when we went to university in sep 2000

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    • radarsat1  13 hours ago

      > Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.

      Pretty bang on description actually. As a 46 yo, sometimes I can't believe I have actual memories of using a rotary phone, or when my family first got a microwave or even VHS recorder. Yet I do. Feels like eons ago.

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  • blueflow  13 hours ago

    Can't be really strict with the dates, the generation thing is cultural and depends on the time and environment of your socialisation.

SoftTalker  15 hours ago

People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite different experience than the mainline Boomer generation. And I was already an adult and married by the main part of the GenX era.

  • ourmandave  15 hours ago

    Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.

    • saalweachter  15 hours ago

      Duodecades are superior to decades, and we can take overlapping pairs of duodecades as "generations" to solve the dividing line problem.

      Duodecades:

        * 1968-1980
  * 1980-1992
  * 1992-2004
  * 2004-2016
  * 2016-2028

      Overlapping generations:

        * GenX: 1968-1992
  * Millennial: 1980-2004
  * GenZ: 1992-2016

    • hdgvhicv  14 hours ago

      Precise boundaries are clearly problematic but you can’t claim that someone born in the late 60s had the same type of global view that someone born in the late 80s did.

    • fryanyway_swe  14 hours ago

      The BMI scale is useful. Yes, athletes and bodybuilders it may not be accurate for, but being on HN I think you are neither :)

      Currently, I am at 20 BMI, for reference.

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