Opinion of each generation

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Gen Z: born 1996 and later
Millennials: born 1977 to 1995
Generation X: born 1965 to 1976
Baby Boomers: born 1946 to 1964
Silent Generation: born 1925 to 1945
Greatest Generation: born 1901-1924

[Virginiá]

Why do I feel like Boomers are in for a beating here ?

[dead0man]

Is anybody able to explain why GenX gets so few years (less than half as many as the "greatest generation") compared to the other generations?

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Z, Greatest, Boomers -HPs

The rest-FFs. Most so in the case of the Silent.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Is anybody able to explain why GenX gets so few years (less than half as many as the "greatest generation") compared to the other generations?

That's a good question.  Maybe because you guys are kind of lumped into that awkward cultural stage between Boomers and Millennials?

Like, you're old enough to be considered a Boomer, but not old enough to take responsibility for every goddamn short-term-thinking Boomer fckup that's been done.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

All generations sucks because people sucks in general.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

1996 is Gen Z??  Then, hooray, I'm not a millennial!!

But, this is Illustration A why this concept isn't very good to begin with!

[muon2]

Is anybody able to explain why GenX gets so few years (less than half as many as the "greatest generation") compared to the other generations?

That's a good question.  Maybe because you guys are kind of lumped into that awkward cultural stage between Boomers and Millennials?

Like, you're old enough to be considered a Boomer, but not old enough to take responsibility for every goddamn short-term-thinking Boomer fckup that's been done.

It's also because 1976-77 is an unusually early date for the Gen-X/Millennial transition. Experts are not in complete agreement as to the correct date, but the Pew Research Center is one of the most frequently cited authorities on the statistics of the generations, and they put the transition at 1980-1981. That gives Gen-X 16 years, the same as the Millennials.

[Beet]

Since historians generally agree that baby boomers are born 1946-1964, I think defining the following generations in the same 18 year timespans fits neatly:

Baby boomers: 1946-1964
Generation X: 1964-1982
Millenials: 1982-2000
Generation Z: 2000-2018

This is correct.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I was born in very late 1983 and I'm sure as hell not Gen X. I say if you were born during Reagan's presidency you're a millennial.

[America Needs R'hllor]

I want to push back on your dates for each generation, specifically because Generation X is too small.

Since historians generally agree that baby boomers are born 1946-1964, I think defining the following generations in the same 18 year timespans fits neatly:

Baby boomers: 1946-1964
Generation X: 1964-1982
Millenials: 1982-2000
Generation Z: 2000-2018

I think this a better layout for a few reasons: every generation is the same lifespan (18 years), Generation Z starts at a nice cut off date (literally the new millenia), and the first wave of millenials would come of age at the birth of a new millennia (those born in 82/83 would be approx. 18 in 2000). Although if you're born near the cusp you could reasonably be included in either generation.

Also I believe that the greatest generation is the best but I am biased since I am a 93 year old man.

Just kidding I was born in 1996 and took issue with you defining me as being part of Generation Z.

Agreed. Also, I was born in the beginning of 1999 and I approve of this message.

[Goldwater]

Trying to classify generations like this is dumb. I mean, depending on what cutoffs you use, I am apparently supposed to identify more with people 10 years older than me than people a few years younger than me.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Trying to classify generations like this is dumb. I mean, depending on what cutoffs you use, I am apparently supposed to identify more with people 10 years older than me than people a few years younger than me.

And, as a current college student, I'm either more like a 40 year-old than a current freshman in college or more like a baby than a current senior in college, depending on exactly where you cut it off!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Trying to classify generations like this is dumb. I mean, depending on what cutoffs you use, I am apparently supposed to identify more with people 10 years older than me than people a few years younger than me.

And, as a current college student, I'm either more like a 40 year-old than a current freshman in college or more like a baby than a current senior in college, depending on exactly where you cut it off!

le wrong generation

[Oakvale]

1901-1924: Mega FFs
1925-1945: FFs
1946-1964: Mild FFs
1965-1976: Mild HPs
1977-1995: HPs
1996+: Mega HPs

[Associate Justice PiT]

Trying to classify generations like this is dumb. I mean, depending on what cutoffs you use, I am apparently supposed to identify more with people 10 years older than me than people a few years younger than me.

     Part of the problem here is that societal attitudes evolve at a much faster rate these days, such that 20-year generations are not really a useful sociological concept. I already see a pretty significant difference in attitudes and outlook between my peers and people just five years younger than me.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Why do I feel like Boomers are in for a beating here ?

SAD! 

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Since historians generally agree that baby boomers are born 1946-1964, I think defining the following generations in the same 18 year timespans fits neatly:

Baby boomers: 1946-1964
Generation X: 1964-1982
Millenials: 1982-2000
Generation Z: 2000-2018

This is correct.

All FFs except boomers and silents.

Why do people hate gen z more then millenials?

[Vosem]

All FFs except Boomers and Gen Z, who are both terrible. Though this refers to the generations in the United States; other countries have different paradigms.

[Vosem]

Is anybody able to explain why GenX gets so few years (less than half as many as the "greatest generation") compared to the other generations?

Because the border between Gen X and Millennials should really be much later (around the mid-'80s)?

[Goldwater]

Trying to classify generations like this is dumb. I mean, depending on what cutoffs you use, I am apparently supposed to identify more with people 10 years older than me than people a few years younger than me.

     Part of the problem here is that societal attitudes evolve at a much faster rate these days, such that 20-year generations are not really a useful sociological concept. I already see a pretty significant difference in attitudes and outlook between my peers and people just five years younger than me.

Part of it, sure. But you still have the issue about people born near the cutoff dates, regardless of where you actually put those dates, even in older generations.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

You youngins have no respect.  Get off my lawn!

[Figueira]

Since historians generally agree that baby boomers are born 1946-1964, I think defining the following generations in the same 18 year timespans fits neatly:

Baby boomers: 1946-1964
Generation X: 1964-1982
Millenials: 1982-2000
Generation Z: 2000-2018

This is correct.

All FFs except boomers and silents.

Why do people hate gen z more then millenials?

Ageism.

I voted FF for all. I almost voted HP for Baby Boomers but the nice side of me won out.

[muon2]

I was born in very late 1983 and I'm sure as hell not Gen X. I say if you were born during Reagan's presidency you're a millennial.

You are in good company. As I posted above, 1981 begins the Millennials according to Pew. They agree that everyone born during the Reagan years is a millenial.

[LabourJersey]

Generalizing about whole generations is stupid and totally unproductive. Especially in modern America, the sheer amount of racial/ethnic diversity, economic strata and subcultures mean that the group of Americans born on a single day (which is 10,829 to be precise) is too fractured to make generalizations about, much less people born within a 20 year window!