All I hear about is “boomers” this, “Millennials” that, “Gen Z” that, etc.

Why no one talk about Gen X? What happened to them? They just vanished like in Infinity War? Or are we mistaken Gen Z by Boomers?

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      4 hours ago

      It’s a spectrum. Lots of parents in millennial days were doing the same s***, but I think it was more in a rural setting.

      Back in Gen x and Boomer days this was suburbia.

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        Most millennials were born in the 1980s, smart phones didn’t come about until 2006+

        Most of our lives were outside as kids. I got my first cell phone at 18, 2 years after I had already been working 40 hour weeks while going to school and my parents finally got sick of not having a way to get a hold of me. Comically their cell phone bill went down because the company I worked for gave them 25% of their bill when they added my phone so they didn’t want me to have a separate plan.

        I still remember my mother calling me sometime that year and asking if I’d come to dinner and I had to tell her I was over 1,000 miles away because I flew to Boston.

        I think I was 22 when I started staying indoors more. Took a desk job and got overweight and lazy.

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          I think it would be great for understanding if each generation did a little bio like this just to give a sense of where they’re coming from. Too many people assuming shit they don’t know.