Ehhh...not really. At least not where I grew up. If you went outside, you were either at risk for being shot or stabbed by a gang member, or if you went to a nice safe neighborhood, everyone just called the police on you. I used to try to skateboard at the fucking skate park or shoot hoops on the basketball court and the cops would be on me in a second, threatening to throw me in juvy.
I don’t think we were the last to grow up without social media. At least in my childhood social media was very prevalent. And I’m smack dab a perfect zillennial. I think a better way of saying it would be that we were the last generation to experience this environment where it seemed like social media was peacefully coexisting with real life instead of taking it over like it seems to be doing today. Cuz once I got to my teen years that’s when I saw how social media started to become the bigger of the two. So, we had a little bit of it as small children and middle schoolers but we didn’t have much or enough time to enjoy life, before that, like the millennials did. 😢
Then youre not zillenial dude lol. I was born in 1997, and yes at first we were brought up without social media. But as this video covered, we were still growing up in middle school during the birth of social media and smart phones
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.
@@RonaldRaiden I agree with that, and it was also about connecting. Making human connections with a reach we’ve never had before. But I was more so asking for the years, of the golden age.
@@emberyolremember9216 I would say right before smartphones became common. Probably before 2011? I remember creating my first Facebook account in 2008, I was I'm 6th grade. Everything was about self expression. I also remember being in 9th grade and people would tweet whatever was on their mind. Social media and the internet wasn't really corporitized until after smartphone and data became much more accessible which happened around 2013-2015. I definitely remember all the talks about how social media would start to change because more corporations are coming into the space. And they did. We saw that start from 2016 onwards.
Yup just turned 26 here, 97 baby. Created my Facebook on 5th grade and it was my only social media till Instagram and Snapchat came along around 10th grade. BBM (blackberry messenger) was IT back then too lol
Oh gosh! I remember BBM! I am a year younger than you but to this day I still refer to snapchat as the younger app because I think it came out a year or so later than the rest. Facebook, Twitter, RU-vid, Instagram had already been established and I remember snapchat being the younger and cooler new app.... until Tik Tok I'm 2019. Musically and Vine never went super mainstream so I am ignoring them.
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
I'm sooooo Glad this is finally being talked about. This literally started in 6th grade for me. In 5th grade I vaguely heard about Facebook but Elementary school to middle school was such a huge change. Went full blown by 6th grade. I was kinda shy but I still always had friends in class and in school, and it'd be like, okay we'll see each other the next day in class and pick up from there. But with Facebook coming in, by the next day you show up to school, ur like behind everyone else on so many things. I never got Facebook so it made me even more left out. It really ruined the natural social dynamic of school.
I remember being called slow in middle school because I had no idea wtf MySpace was. Social media has to this day never interested me…now RU-vid on the other hand…that grabbed me hard. The affects of online entertainment in those early years need to also be studied on how it affected us back then
I’m a late millenial / Zennial born in 1995 and I hate when people think they’re just high schoolers Even me as a late millenial relate to both generations
‘92 born here 👋 I still remember Windows Live messenger, the chat rooms from back in the day and when MySpace was a big thing until everybody moved to Facebook lol. I feel old now 😂
He has to go through all that effort to make a new account. You just have to block him. Make his life hell in this way if he wishes to mess with you. Make him your personal Sisyphus.
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
The Coca Cola Company studied European zillennials in the early 2010s and named their finding "Generation Zero" at that time. But we zillenials should be studied more than this and taken into account better, because as a micro generation we have become the new forgotten generation when general attention is focused more on the differences between the generations y and z.
Early Internet was fun back then it wasn't about views so I guess they can study how we grew up during the Golden age of the Internet and no smartphones
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.
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.
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
I totally forgot about Kik. Your first exposure to weird people on the internet you shouldn't be talking to but your adventurous friend roped you into a groupchat.
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.
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
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.. 😂
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
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…
I was 13 yo when I started using social media, bc I remember that was one of the conditions you had to check to create a Facebook account lol. Social media in general should've had tougher restrictions back then! It's not like today's a lot better but 13 is wayyy too young
anyone from 1990(arguably) definitely 1992 and on...idk....we are a wierd in-between. by best friend was born in 1997 and the other 1995 it's a shit show.
"No on believed us.." there are several studies of the effect of social on children. The need to study the effects of social of children and demographics etc is mainstream in pop psychology has been for a decade and a half to two decades (if counting early studies of chatrooms etc). Don't erase the efforts of a bunch of underpaid and overworked social scientists.
Yes , you should be studied! So we can figure out what about social media, in comparison to the rest of the internet, that made you all so daft. we need to figure out what happened to all the good new movie ideas, why so many more of you now think your not the sex u were born compared to before social media oh and why so many of you feel contentment in how hatful and intolerant you all talk to people who don’t believe what you believe.
