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Dividing people into labelled generations is such a Boomer thing to do.
There's two things i hate in this world: people who are intollerant of different generational age brackets, and the boomers.
Man, that was one hearty and heartily needed belly laugh! Thanks!
I see what you did there..
Finally! The generations are so sloppily and arbitrarily defined anyway. Yeah, there’s a difference between me at almost 40 and someone in college. There are some things I had more in common with “Gen-X” and some that I had more in common with “millennials,” but then they’d try to define my group as if they were a separate thing on the cusp between the two. Misses the point entirely, there may be tendencies based on age group but everyone’s somewhere on a spectrum of all that stuff.
There are people same age as me that I feel like I share more in common with toddlers (or alternately, geriatrics) than them despite that age similarity.
I agree with you. Flailing around to find some kind of value in generational definitions, the best I can come to is more about eras— times defined by significant events, cultural touchstones, or technologies that influenced, in whatever way, directly or indirectly, the people alive at the time, or perhaps the people coming of age at the time.
Even then, how much does it tell us to think of people in those contexts?
Great, now when will the advertising industry lose generations as a prime demographic?
As a member of generation, I am appalled
Yes! It’s not generation vs generation. We need to think in less divide terms.
Maybe this kind of division was massively adopted because it allows to easily categorize groups of people for different purpouses, positive or negative. Makes for easy labelling and blaming without critical thinking or analysis. I hope this generation meme dies off, but I think it will take a while, it's very convenient, mainly to advance certain agendas.
Sure. But also convenient to divide people who really should be working together toward making a better world. It’s easy to blame boomers, zoomers, or genx-when in reality all those generations are in the same boat.
That would be great if we could get certain generations on board; at least one of those generations seems to hold a grudge against the following generations because said generation got a lot of benefits from the prior generation, cut off any chances of legally accessing those benefits from the following generations, while also blaming the following generations. Make it make sense!
I think generational framing news is for advertise economy such as clickbeit.
It's a narrative, either cynically or lazily dishonest, that starts with a conclusion and works backwards from there.
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