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I was just wondering who here are Gen X's and who is a Gen Y's? And who knows what the difference is? I think im a generation Y person, born in 1981.

Okay, the term Generation X mainly is an American one. If you still want it to apply to you, then you are Generation X (1961-1981). You are also Generation Y (1977-2003), the MTV Generation (1970-1985), the Boomerang Generation (1981-1986), but you miss out on being the Internet Generation (1986â1999). You also miss out on being in the Greatest Generation (1911-1924).

God knows which retards came up with all of these.

There are a lot of 'generation' labels but Gen Y is certainly the one thrown around the most at the moment. From what I understand, and seem to hear all the time:

- rather than previous generation who lived to work, Gen Y supposedly work to live. They (or should I say 'we'?) don't want work to rule our lives
- Gen Y are harder to keep in jobs, they skip happily from one job to the next as soon as a better opportunity comes along
- big spenders
- ambitious and all dream of being rich and famous
- speak their minds

That's a few of the things i've heard about Gen Y, I don't think it's untrue, but at the same time it's pretty hard to generalise that kind of thing to a massive bunch of people :D

Agree about working to live and not living to work though!

Douglas Copeland a famous author from where I'm from Vancouver, Canada coined the term Generation X and it is true. The 1977 - 81's are borderline Gen X/Gen Y and can fit in either. But you'll notice in every "generation" there's a a group that exhibit traits typical of 2 of these generational definitions. So eg for people between. 77-81 you'll find some people you meet will attribute themselves more with Gen X traits and qualities than with Gen Y. Not only that you'll notice pop culture differences which is extremely bizarre.

I think the "generation tagging" is just a tag. I like to call any youth belonging to generation "C" for confused, and that included me at one time. Then, the're was a rock'n rhythm columnist who had his column called "Generation W", most probably because of "who" what" "why".

But it is fun playing with tags, so much like it is done here.