As a fellow Gen Zer I feel like there is a generational gap. I want to see if I’m trippin or there actually is one.

  • Alice@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    '93, younger end of millennial.

    Not big on generation labels though, they feel like a failed experiment. People are born every day of every year and our experiences overlap in a gradient. They don’t separate into distinct portions.

    The baby boom was an actual phenomenon, but every label afterwards feels arbitrary.

    • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      I agree that it’s not a useful metric to apply to an individual. “Ok boomer” aside, there is too much variation within a generation for it to be a useful way to draw any conclusions about a single person.

      Where generations are useful is in demography. There is no strict dividing line between a lot of kids of demographics, but categorizing them can still give us useful data for studying populations