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<blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1714398" data-attributes="member: 1710">They're buzz-words the press likes to throw around, do you really think they took the time to define it?People didn't start talking about generation X until I was half way through highschool. At the time the people whom they were referring to as Gen-X were my age. Most of the children of the baby boomers, people who were teens in the 60s, 70s and early 80s, didn't really ever get a nickname. Maybe they got lumped in with the punks, yuppies, etc from the &quot;Me Generation&quot;.When I first started hearing about &quot;Generation Y&quot;, it was in reference to people who were &quot;tweens&quot; a year or two ago. Tween itself being a term I only recently started hearing (which refers to kids who aren't quite teenagers).Sort of pathetic that they couldn't come up with anything better to follow Gen-X with so they puked up Gen-Y in order to have a new buzz word to toss around.At least, that's the way I see it.Edit: For reference, I'm 27. I started hearing about Gen-X in the 90s. I started hearing about Gen-Y a year or two ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bran Blackbyrd, post: 1714398, member: 1710"] They're buzz-words the press likes to throw around, do you really think they took the time to define it? People didn't start talking about generation X until I was half way through highschool. At the time the people whom they were referring to as Gen-X were my age. Most of the children of the baby boomers, people who were teens in the 60s, 70s and early 80s, didn't really ever get a nickname. Maybe they got lumped in with the punks, yuppies, etc from the "Me Generation". When I first started hearing about "Generation Y", it was in reference to people who were "tweens" a year or two ago. Tween itself being a term I only recently started hearing (which refers to kids who aren't quite teenagers). Sort of pathetic that they couldn't come up with anything better to follow Gen-X with so they puked up Gen-Y in order to have a new buzz word to toss around. At least, that's the way I see it. Edit: For reference, I'm 27. I started hearing about Gen-X in the 90s. I started hearing about Gen-Y a year or two ago. [/QUOTE]

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