bobbysoxer
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posted on December 13, 2000 10:37:55 AM
I was wondering if any one of ya'll can answer this inquiry?
For us baby boomers the birth-years are 1946 to 1964. So what are the birth years for Generation X?
Thanks in advance!
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ebaylingeriediva
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posted on December 13, 2000 11:01:11 AM
i consider it to be 1965 to (about) 1979. everyone born in 1980 or later practically grew up with computers and i think theyre being considered generation d.
but i could be wrong...
[ edited by ebaylingeriediva on Dec 13, 2000 11:02 AM ]
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dthmj
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posted on December 13, 2000 11:54:05 AM
I was born in 1966, and do not consider myself "Generation X". For that matter, my husband was born in 1964 and doesn't consider himself a baby boomer - though maybe technically he is, he has nearly nothing in common with someone born in 1946.
We consider ourselves the "lost generation" - there are relativly few of us, and no one really markets to us - everything is too young or too old.
I don't consider Generation X to have started until at least 1968 - closer to 1970 IMHO.
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raham
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posted on December 13, 2000 01:01:23 PM
Wow! The net has so many variations. There is a common ground to all the sites though with these two definitions: '63-'79 or '61-'82.
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gravid
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posted on December 13, 2000 01:11:30 PM
x were welped
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Borillar
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posted on December 13, 2000 01:25:21 PM
I have always concidered anyone born around the 1980's, particularily from about 1975 through 1990. That was always how the media was talking about them. On the other hand, maybe the GenX'ers were simply showing their muscels back then?
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ehansen
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posted on December 13, 2000 02:03:50 PM
Fially a thread I feel strongly about. The Gen-X years fall strictly between 1963 and 1967. We're in between the heroin hippies and neo conservatives. The confusion has arisen because the "Nightly News" has given the label Gen-X to anyone that doesn't seem to "fit in" which can describe any number of kids from any generation. Gen-X'ers are the Boomers' water carriers and bat-boys. While the boomers make millions in advertsing agencies, we serve them capuccinos and watch them eat granola.....
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lesliepear
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posted on December 13, 2000 02:24:52 PM
I was born in 1962 -- towards the end of the baby boom, but never understood why 1960-1964/1965 was lumped into it. They *lived* the 1960's, we spent our high school years wishing we had been older then as the late 70's/early 80's were relatively boring 
Leslie
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virakech
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posted on December 13, 2000 05:01:28 PM
they call me a 'tweener', born 1959...not quite baby boomer (too young to attend Woodstock) and not a yuppy...so I thought the 'me' generation came after the tweeners...then came our children, who are the generation X-ers, so that is the late 1970s to mid 1980s for them...but I could be wrong.
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lsst
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posted on December 13, 2000 08:43:13 PM
After the "Baby Boomers" came the "Baby Busters"! I was born in 1965 and read in an article the "Boomers" ended in 1964 and the "Busters" were until 1970 and then the "X" generation.
Lauren
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craybaby
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posted on December 13, 2000 09:22:35 PM
the heroin hippies????? Generation Xers are the whiney ones. No passions, no causes, no fights for what they they think is right.
Sorry, about this. It's not my thing to judge whole groups of people like this guy does but I was somewhat ticked off by his/her comment. So get a life.
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ehansen
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posted on December 14, 2000 06:28:04 AM
Craybaby:
Ummm...there was a loud there at the end of my post. I don't use sarcasm to offend...I'll get a life if you can get a grain of salt to take with my comments. No offense intended.
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LindaAW
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posted on December 14, 2000 09:56:29 AM
craybaby,
The Community Guidelines require conduct to be guided at all times by basic etiquette. Your "get a life" comment is close to crossing the line. Please keep the concept of basic etiquette in mind as you post.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Linda
Moderator
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mimigigi
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posted on December 14, 2000 12:18:53 PM
What about the "Me" Generation? I thought that was in between the boomers and the X'ers.
Although, I almost make the cut to be a Gen X'er, I see. Can I please be a Gen X'er? It makes me feel so young!
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