I don't know if millennials are the most unique generation. After reading this post, I'm fairly sure they're the most self-entitled one. GenXers did the same without all the song and dance.

Typical ignorant Millennial BS. Even WITH all the worlds knowledge right in their hands they still manage to make the wrong conclusions :-/ As a proud generation X-er born in '73: in the age of analogue landlines, video rental stores, NO internet & NO mobile phones. Remembering those days families had rotary phones, the family phone situated in the living room, introduction of this new thing called home computer (Commodore or MSX), the very first Atari game computer, VHS/Betamax machines, cassette tapes, the very FIRST walkman, the release of the very first Video laser players, remember that mini-disk? The very first 8 inch floppy disk, the very first mobile GSM national phone networks, the first launch of the internet + remembering that a download speed of 125kbps was considered FAST, those times were take away actually meant that YOU would come yourself & take away your meal. Also those times where typical Dutch summers were WET & COLD with almost NO sun, today our summers are almost "tropical" in comparison. Christ I feel old right now. I sometimes wonder how many Gen-X-ers are frequent BP visitors...... :-)

So the generation before millennials got easily scammed by emails? Assuming he's referring to Gen X, I was never scammed by emails. I'm sure most GenXers don't fall for that stuff. Now Baby Boomers, that's another story. Oh yeah, we also had the best music.

Saying that anyone born before 1985 will fall for internet scams is absurd. People love to think that their generation is more intelligent than the one before don't they!!?

Doesn't every generation think they're the most important/ special/ unique? It's human nature I think (but also this is very cringeworthy!)

I get his point but he’s extending those attributes too far. This pertains more to people born in the very late 70’s to mid/late 80’s. Someone born in the 90’s cannot relate to this stuff. It’s stupid to lump 90’s babies in with any of this. They try so hard to be included but they don’t belong at all.

What I find most amusing about "millennials" is that they really are convinced that they are relevant. Dream on kiddos!!!!!

Actually Millennials are from 1981 to 1996 according to google. However I actually prefer the 1985-1995 thing. If your like me and hit puberty and smoked a joint before Kurt Cobain died I don't think you should be considered a millennial. There should be a very specific classification for those born 1981-1985. We're not exactly generation x but I feel were further away from millennials than X. If you had a set of playing Cards from Desert Storm your not a millennial. But we're definitely not X, no we never new Michael Jackson was black lol. But we all remember running home to delete that message from the principal

It is quite important to notice that terms like 'Millennial' or "Generation X' apply only to the American society as they refer to specific social events typical to that country. These had some counterparts in Western Europe, but people in China, Soviet Union or India did not live through the same events Americans did.

Yup, they are the generation that is full of it. And I do not mean pasta.

Yeah my dad is gen x and he could tell me about everything changing in the 1980s to 2000s

Can I just comment on the opening line that says “the war between generations never ends”? The war never ends because media like Bored Panda makes this discussion a talking point, drawing differences and trying to pit people from different generations against each other to compare who’s better. Can we just agree that each generation is unique to their own and each have strength & weaknesses and let’s move on to other topic so we can get this war over with

Wow, a lot of naive arrogance there. Gen X was raised entirely pre-internet/digital/cellular, saw the arrival of all those technologies in our teens and early twenties, taught our children how to use them, and still young enough to be receptive to new technologies and trends but old enough to appreciate every step forward since the days of analog and be skeptical of their effects on society and culture. We've lived through four decades too, and changes we've witnessed firsthand have been sweeping. Take it down a notch millenials, you're not that special.

Whoever that person is that says they were born in 91 and can't remember the dawn of the internet or birth of CDs? I do not know where they were at, because I was born in 91 and remember it very well.

I thought millennials is from 1982, im glad and feel blessed that I was born in the 80s.

I like the comment from "Lj." The last sentence...."We is smart." *facepalm*

The Generation X just got bypassed again :( The qualities that millennial kid mentioned actually belonged to Gen X. But anyway that's OK, we would rather quietly do our own thing than brag everything. We don't need anyone's approval. And personally, I don't care about it either. All these generational classifications are at best very subjective to the demographer's opinion and are too centered for upper and middle class Westerners. The starting year for the Millennial generation is pegged between 1977-1982 with most definitions settling at 1981-1982 while the ending years is pegged from 1996-2004 with most settling between 1996-2000. Same with Generation X although the ending cut-off year is more controversial than the starting cut-off year. I was born in early 1980 and I find it ridiculous that people my age are grouped in with the 80s and 90s babies who I absolutely don't relate to. Let's face it, most of us 1980 babies have far more in common with the 70s babies than with the early 80s babies, let alone the 90s babies. We came of age in 1998, turned 20 in 2000 & not in 2001 (the new millennium & 21st century). Except for the few lucky rich ones, most of us didn't have internet until 20. I had my first clunky cellphone at 20 and the very first time I used a computer was in high school but even at my early 20s, my computer proficiency were far below average.

I think he got the dates mixed up. I believe it's actually 75-85ish being born. If you were born in '85, but the time you were say, 7 it was already 1992. if '95 it's 2002 when your 7. You barely know about the beginnings of boy bands, you missed AOL, you missed ATARI and Commodore and the first Nintendo. You missed things like the OJ trial, even 9/11. By miss I mean you'd be too young to remember or know the significance of it all. You missed the LA riots and Rodney King (the first on camera/video of Police brutality). You missed pagers and MTV when it was just music. You missed using a typewriter, then a dos printers, then microsoft word. Missed using the dewey decimal system and micro fiche and moving to computer catalogs and then google. From using tv's with v-hold and bunny ears to cable and the beta max/VHS war, the VCR's, laser disc, to cd's to dvds being born from '85-'95 is NOT the most interesting. Gen X or xennials grew up using and throughout the tech revolution.

The more accurate statement would be "the most unique generation in the meantime". Then you'll pass the torch on to the guys following your tracks, while the world evolves further around you.

Well... First of all, that guy is full of sh!t. No one is better than other. Second: here goes the chart (for USA patterns): greatest generation (1901-1927) | silent generation (1927-1945) | baby boomers (1946-1960's) | generation X (1960's- 1980's) | millenials (1980's -1999) | generation Z (2000-....). :::::: Generation X saw the "old world" and the optimism of baby boomers falling apart, at the same time as technology started to be accessible for domestic use. People from Generation X started disbelieving concepts like "the hard working", "keep your job to pay your house" or "academic success will provide you all". In late 80's, the term Slacker Generation was used to to define the "a branch" of the Generation X who was, now, to apatic and couldn't care less with the hard working and expensive houses. In the 90's, that generation went deep into the internet boom, and was called Millenial... As you see, this is not a fight of good or stupid generations: it's a process.

Here in Brazil we have no idea what this generation x/y/z thing is. We only have three classes of people: people, old people and new people eheheh. Look, I was born in 1968, I'm 51 years old.  I played video game as a kid, I play video games on my computer nowaday. I watched StarWars at the premiere, at the movies and watched yesterday the Avengers End Game and I was thrilled in the same way.  I know how to use a rotatory phone and I know how to use a smartphone. My first computer was a ZX spectrum (which I bought with my salary, it was not a gift from daddy or mommy), I went through MSX, PC and now I'm writing this sitting on my couch, looking at my tv where my pc is connected. So, why would not I know how to do something that was not taught from the 70's until the years 2019? Even my mother, who is 82, knows how to use a smartphone to make video calls over Whatsapp! Honestly, I do not understand this fixation about generations and their talents / defects that you speak here. Someone could explain if for me?

Awww, hey guys. I'm having a rough week and this made me feel special - just for being born. I'm into it.

Apparently, Pete Buttigieg is a millennial, and it seems to have gotten some people excited. And him being openly gay is also cause for excitement. I'm wondering if he has what it takes to become President without those two things being factored in. And the way I see it, the greatest generation(s) was/were born before 1945, because they dealt with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, which affected more than just America, and then they put a stop to Hitler 16 years later. Sure, there have been great people born since 1945, but they were few and far between when compared to people like Churchill, Einstein, and even the Curies.

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Five words: Richard Hell and the Voidoids. The generation - possibly a century from now - that can finally figure it what the f*ck the song "Blank Generation" actually means wins the best gen award...you'll get a cookie.

Well his talking about generation X (1980-1990) but also some generation Y (or millenials). Really depends how you lived and how you were raised. I remember most of those things his talking about and I was born in -87. I remember using these 🕹🖨💾🎞☎️ and waiting for my friends somewhere before I got my first mobile phone. You can’t generalize everything. Also: https://communityrising.kasasa.com/gen-x-gen-y-gen-z/

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