loneliness

[Riley Skye]

definitely a millennial here, only 21 years and a number of months old. glad i was able to start young:D

[Joanna Dark]

Heather I think you'd be a Milennnial, depending on your experiences. If you're up beat, which you are, Millenial. Gen-X ended in 74 so that's like four and half years about before you were born. Generations a just a bunch of people with shared cultural experiences. I'm not sure what GenY is. So maybe we are both that but I always thought it was the same thing as a millenial. As far as that one poster, how rude. Plus bizarre. Maybe an explanation sayadda?

[A]

Generation X, a synonym of millenial generation, is a pretty wide group of people, born between the early 1980's or the late 1970's (depending on the commentator) and the early 2000s.

I was never a big fan of those generalisations though. That would almost put me in the same generation as my mother.

I tend to think of people as "of my generation" if they weren't born, or were too young, to take part in the strange fashions of the 1980s and the early 1990's. Someone who listened to the b... unique songs of the 80's willingly, contemporarily and as an adult is definitely not of my generation. Or if they lived long in the period when it was okay to smoke everywhere and all the time. Or if they were adults when they first used the Internet.

Though it makes me feel old to say that those who were born with computers roughly in their modern state (say, 2000-2004 and later) are probably no longer of my generation. Because mentally, on many points, it feels like I never got past 12 years old.

[Joanna Dark]

I agree that generations take in a wide variety of people. But Gen X is supposed to have ended in 1974 and Millenials are from 1980 onward. What about those in the six years between 74 and 80? In Anthpology, the define it as a group of people with a shared set of cultural experiences. I agree to a point with your analysis except it is too narrow. There'd be a new generation every five to ten years. I didn't participate in 80s fashion as I was a baby but I was a teen in the 90s. But then I have zero in common with someone born in say 1996. I think the Milennial generation should end around 1996. Ad Age came up with the term Millenial and used it to define teens in 1993 who were very different in their thoughts then Gen X. I don't think there's really an answer. The one thing I do know is I know Gen Xers and we have nothing in common from music to politics to dress to behavior. Being in your 20s and 30s is still quite young and I imagine any differences I have with someone who may be 15 know will be much less 15 years from now where my differences with Gen X will they will be on SS and I'll be in the workforce for another 20 years. I still have like 36 working years left. That seems like an awful lot. Thankfully, I won't be a man for it. HA!

[muuu]

Teens relate to teens, people in their 20's relate to others in their 20's, 30's relate to 30's and 40+ relate to 40+. There are different expectations and things you go trough at different ages, so you need to find people in your same age group. Your goals and what you want in life also matters quite a bit on your age, so yet again, you need to have friends in the same age group.
That's how simple it is...

[Lorri Kat]

    Wow.. I didn't feel old, at 45, and useless till I read this thread.   I think it just schooled me as to what I had heard refered to as the 'I' generation.   Funny I had never looked  at age and friendship as being exclusive or dependant of or to each other.   I have helped many TG's younger then my self as well as those that were well over 20 plus years to me and in that process became  good friends.  This may be apples and oranges though concerning someones stage into transition or awareness verses  social interaction within an age demographic.  I'm happy just to not be alone anymore..  even if I have not meet all of those people I call friends in person.    shrugs..    Gadgets and information exchange used may change over time but I don't think the base human experience  does..   The pressures of each phase of our lives, school, college, relationships and work still remain the same.  I would believe it's more of a social conditioning, spending so much time around those the same age during the first 20 years, that makes one think  that someone older or younger could not understand or relate.    Or I'm senile; in which case rush me off to the nursing home as my usefullness has expired and before I start telling stories of TopHat, 1235, Slither, Twilight Zone dance clubs and Moonboots.     Wow.....