I signed up for MySpace around 2006-2007 on a big fatback computer in a room in our house we called “the computer room”. I was in middle school of course and I’ve pretty much been online since. It was a different world back then and the internet was way different too. The early stages of all this was fun, once in a million years type stuff we got to live through as modern humans watching new technology emerge and become the new normal.
At 14-15 my entire year had ipads for the firs time. The teachers and staff had literally no way of monitoring us becuase the teachers didnt have a clue how they worked.
Born in 2001 here, I feel like I'm the last Zillennial birthyear because I graduated before the pandemic. We remember a world before social media and played outside as a kids. We were social and friendly in our teenage years, unlike today's teens which are all a bunch of introverts who prefer interacting with AI over humans
1992-2002 we us Zillennials miss the early mid 2000’s when we was in Elementary and some of us was in Middle school 🏫 I was like 11 playing Spider-Man when I was in the 6 Grade back in 2008 I miss playing my PS2 and my PSP i consider myself as an Mid Zillennial I’m too Old to be Gen Z but I identify myself as an Adult and an Teenager at the time I was 16-17 back when I was in High school 🏫 when I had androids back in 2013-2014
Currently 25, and the birth of snapchat (before chat history or screenshot), Kik, Facebook, etc sexualized my middle school xp I lost my virginity at a church before i even hit puberty
Xennials laughing in the corner... as if the internet didn't spread for everyone to use IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. BEFORE the days that predators were identified.
I think about this often. The fact that i went into grade 8 with my blackberry and flip phone with no data, then went into grade 11 with a whole smartphone, 2 GB data, and then subsequently leaving highschool and social media blows up over the next 2 years (2015-2017). Its crazy.
Late 89 like by two months as I might as well have been born in 90. I often identify as of late as an older Gen Z for some reason as I can barely relate to the older Millennial crowd. There's a slew of Gen Xers who were born as early as 1978 or 1976 who can't even relate to their own generation and who have identified as Millennials for some time now. My mother identifies as Gen X despite being born in 63 for quite similar reasons. A lot of this is cultural and related to upbringing I believe as I don't even feel like a Millennial sometimes lol more like a much older Gen Zer.. 😂
Millennials and gen z are mostly the same, in fact, they are even siblings. Chances are, if you grow up with someone from the same tree, you’re not going to be entirely different from them. The only reason these two names exist is because of money hungry marketing companies. They create these names to try and categorizes us so that it will be easier to sell to us! But if they can’t easily categorize a certain groups of people, they completely ignore them and leave them out of the equation and they go for the basic majority! This what causes all the confusion!! From a business point of you, it makes sense, right? But it’s also just very greedy and shady. Because it ends up, causing a lot of cultural discord. Separating us and naming us like cattle on a farm, creates unnecessary problems, bringing out certain insecurities in people. Now we have people feeling left out and feeling like they don’t know who they are, which sucks because, people naturally want to feel like they belong, and personally, I feel like this whole GenZ millennial thing divides us more than it brings us together and it’s all because these companies are just trying to make money off of us, our insecurities, and our natural desires!!! Some of us, are just “too mixed” (Zillennials) to put in a box, so they just ignore us completely. I don’t know if I should be glad about that or if I should be upset honestly, cuz not being like everyone else isn’t as fun or as✨quirky,✨ as you may think it is…
Born in 2002, I feel the same way, tho we’re 4 years apart, so there are things you’ve experienced more than me. I can say ppl born between 1997-03 can agree that we’re too “young” to be Millennials, but at the same time, we’re too old to relate to whatever tf the rest of Gen Z is doin.
Mcmansion haters are just jealous they cant afford a house that big. Why are you hating on someone who doesnt want a basic box shape house under 3000sq feet?
This is so rich coming from this snaggle toothed chick. What in the hell is going on with that “art” on the wall behind her? And why is she sitting with her back against it? It smacks of a bad rental and she’s criticizing other people houses. Hmmm 🙄
It was also really weird because we couldn't even pair it with a smartphone till 2007+ So we kind of were getting hit and dodging some of the major social media issues, Couldn't imagine Going to school the way it is now, school was traumatizing enough, Couldn't imagine it
Right? I went out to the club the other day (I'm 28) and saw this young 19 year old boy just casually taking stealthy pics of another dude at a different table. Like they do that often. I can't even imagine.
As one of these people, I think it lead to a lot of us being surprisingly well adjusted, because we had those tender childhood years with no exposure to social media, but were young enough to adapt when social media came about. Older generations have no defenses built and up and are absolutely ruined by it, and younger generations had their brains warped too young.
we definitely need to be studied lets go down memory lane shall we?: tumblr in 2007 as well as askfm, formspring, xanaga (anyone remember that?), twitter and facebook in 2009 lord help us all), instagram and twitter in the 2010's (i graduated highshcool by then) but what the actual fuck was that.
Late 94 baby. Finding the "lost generation" has answered so many questions. Everything about Gen Y / millennial now is about raising babies and I'm just like lol no
My parents live in a large red brick house that is tasteful and full gable roof. It’s a large house but not a McMansion. I hope that all McMansions all get demoed out and replaced with tastefully done large houses or better yet divvy up the lots and build 2 to 4 craftsman bungalows or jubilees in each of their places.
YES YES YES YES!!! It's like people born between 1995 and 2000 are like the ones who are so different from both Millennials and so different from Gen Z because of that experience
