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William Straus and Neil Howe's clustering of millennials based on birth years, the generational classification was referred to as Generation Y, and muddled the fair representation of those who experienced their adolescence and cognitive-development years in step with the nascent phase of home-based Internet access technology.
While often lumped together with millennials (as defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.
Gen Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (predecessors to social media) into today's digital age.
The Millennial Generation definition is wrong. Generation Y members are completely distinct in upbringing and in their world views from Generation Z.
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The generation of people who grew up during the information boom of the 1990's. Usually they are described as the net generation. The term Transition Generation emphasises the fact that they were growing up while communication and information were both being revolutionized. They are the generation that have lived in days before this revolution but are fully assimilated to these technolgies.
Most people in the transition generation can write a letter and send an I.M.
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This mythical creature is known to cause hypertension and erectile dysfunction in webmasters. Also known as 'Appleyard's Curse'.
"My interweb venture was running smoothly until I got a visit from General Havelock. Despite being off my food ever since, I now shit myself hourly!"
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People in western countries born from the mid-1960s to 1980 approximately. You can imagine them as a blend of Boomers and Millennials in both good and bad traits but way more cynical. You might be cynical too if you were stuck between those two.
Why is Chad always such a naysayer? He's generation X.
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Today’s teenagers and young adults, ranging in age from about 10-22. Whatever source you look up says something different, though.
We grew up in a post 9/11 world, were kids when the economy crashed, saw the first black man elected president and the first orange man elected president. Social media and iPhones were and are part of growing up for us.
Although the world is statistically getting better, we’ve never felt like we live in a peaceful world. As kids, we watched the war in Iraq and Afghanistan on TV. We have seen the rise of ISIS, school shootings, and huge natural disasters due to climate change. We have been inundated with bad news and fake news due to growing up with the internet. Adults told us growing up that we were entitled narcissists and our phones that they invented were destroying our social skills.
We grew up on youtube, twitter and instagram, making friends with people halfway across the world since we were young. We are the first truly global generation. Our claim to fame is our memes.
We have been handed a world that is more complex and faster changing than any other time in history. Many see it as broken. We saw the world lose it’s footing around 2016 when Trump became president, Brexit passed, and Harambe died. Many of us question whether or not it’s ethical to have kids, because we wonder if they’ll be around to see the end of the world. We are ridden with depression and anxiety and worry for the future. We are doing the best we can.
Generation Z: how bout I just yeet myself into oblivion
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A generation of migrants getting naturalized, that are used to bring in people of their own country into a new country.
What causes these immigrant waves, and economical problems?
Most of them are because of an anchor generation. A mom and dad get accepted, and let their son or daughter only marry a partner of their home country. Quite often also used to get their whole family migrated.
Ok, but that would be only one family, can't do no harm right?
It would do no harm if they would not breed 12 children, each marrying people of their own country, breeding more of their own race.
An anchor generation would not be called an anchor generation if the generation following would intermingle and take up the culture and society of the new country instead of living their own.
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When a person is so advanced at an area of math (like calculus) that they lead their class into math warfare.
"He is so good at Calculus. He is like a Calculus general."
"I would follow him into a battle of limits any day."
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