tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post1569788419466214600..comments2024-03-29T01:33:10.107-07:00Comments on Swiss Lark: Are you an Xennial?Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-26947594650231885492019-05-17T15:52:28.960-07:002019-05-17T15:52:28.960-07:00LOL! I guess so. You’re just so cool. LOL! I guess so. You’re just so cool. Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-51734294111286259242019-05-17T15:51:59.817-07:002019-05-17T15:51:59.817-07:00A capsule generation is the perfect way to describ...A capsule generation is the perfect way to describe it. The negativity toward millennials is definitely real. Ugh. You should totally watch Singles. It’s pretty great! Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-78543558414886112892019-05-16T07:27:02.482-07:002019-05-16T07:27:02.482-07:00I got Generation X and was born in 1983. What does...I got Generation X and was born in 1983. What does that meaaaan. Also I didn't get a lot of the references in either options. I guess that means Rural Pre-Internet, Bible Belt North Carolinian.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15599778830910021344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-27201730314838361772019-05-16T07:14:49.777-07:002019-05-16T07:14:49.777-07:00I have given in and embraced the "millenial&q...I have given in and embraced the "millenial" label, as someone born at the very end of 1982. I love when people at work complain about millenials when we are talking about summer interns, and I'm like, "Dude, you're so old you don't even get it. I'm a millenial, these kids are the next generation already." Like, stop using 'millenial' to mean "kids these days," old people! If you want to complain about kids getting iPhones in middle school then you're complaining about the wrong generation! <br /><br />What I found funny is I scored "Gen X adjacent" on that quiz! I think it's probably because I had to guess on some of those questions - I never saw Singles at all, etc - and I tend towards cranky oldness, so I skewed a bit older rather than younger in my responses.<br /><br />I really do feel like we are kind of a capsule generation. My husband is ten years older than me (so just a few years too old for the years this quiz outlines) and he wasn't on Facebook until after he was already married to his first wife, whereas it was ubiquitous by the time I was college age. Younger millenials - like, just a few years younger, it seems - have no idea what Bank Street Writer was, whereas everyone in my cultural age group knows it by sight. There was this flash moment in time where everything changed so fast that no one on either side can really understand what it was like to be in our micro-generation. It's really interesting.Alexandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03185057687419404656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-67898113593611495722019-05-15T20:10:04.923-07:002019-05-15T20:10:04.923-07:00How true! That really is the point. We can relate ...How true! That really is the point. We can relate to both. On a few of the questions, I had no idea which either one was (some of the movie/tv ones) but had heard of both. As you say, it’s that overlap time and the differences in technology. Obviously just tongue-in-cheek fun! But also really interesting. Technology changes so rapidly it splintered a generation. Pretty impressive. Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-41708941045311345612019-05-15T18:16:13.081-07:002019-05-15T18:16:13.081-07:00I understood the point of the Xennial term is beca...I understood the point of the Xennial term is because those of us in that window truly had a different experience to the generations on either side when it comes to tech and the massive effect that's had on how people experience their childhood and coming of age periods. So breaking it down to which way you skew misses the whole point that Xennials can't identify firmly with either Millenials or GenXers because we had a unique window of experience with technology. Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709674707044199845noreply@blogger.com