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It's the latest cool thing to say on social media. I find it fascinating how the twitter crowd is so easily led and how quickly they form a herd of lemmings.
Exactly. I don't care about the phrase itself, but it's indicative of the negative power of social media to degrade the behavior of people.
Generally speaking, if you don't agree with somebody, you should discuss ideas on their merits, not disparage people because of their age.
I myself am no big fan of the boomers. I think the millennials are basically latter day boomers. The boomers were quite a bit like them when they were young, but I imagine most millennials wouldn't know enough history to know that, nor would they have enough self-awareness.
Of course, I am generalizing here, and I would never disparage an individual person based upon the age group to which he/she belongs. I wouldn't do that to boomers or millennials, but I do think that the millennials are a lot like the younger boomers and will probably turn out like them, for better or worse. Who knows if the country can survive another such generation of people with such a high self-regard and such a low regard for others.
So is Generation Jones, which is the latter half of the baby boom, and encompasses the generation of those of us born 1954 - 1965.
We are lumped in with the earlier boomers because we were part of the continued high birth rated. But there are a lot of very important differences between us.
Between Woodstock and Lollapalooza, between 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' and 'Just Say No,' and between Dylan going electric and Nirvana going unplugged, an invisible generation has been silent
There has been a missing piece in the generational landscape.
Originally, GenJonesers were mistakenly lumped in with Boomers because of their mutually high birth rates. But generations stem from shared formative experiences, not head counts. Over time, the original mistaken Boomer Generation definition has become widely discredited, with many top experts now embracing Generation Jones as a distinct generation.
These experts underline the importance of distinguishing between the post-WWII demographic boom in babies versus the cultural generations born during that time. Jonesers were born between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, with the exact birth years varying from nation to nation. In the U.S. and most Western countries, the birth years most often used for GenJones are 1954-1965. Extensive research has shown dramatic differences between the collective personality traits of Boomers versus Jonesers.
This is so true. I am a Generation Joneser (though this is the first time I ever heard the term) who has technically been considered a boomer. But my formative years and experiences were completely different from the people born in the late 1940s and early 1950s and I never had much affinity for the boomers.
Like the millennials, the boomers often complained bitterly about the world they inherited from their parents. It's another unpleasant trait they share.
I just finished a year teaching electrical engineering to a 26 year old. It was a good experience. I learned about him and he learned about me. We were able to compare generations.
I realized how his generation is so screwed.
I graduated from engineering school in 1972. My tuition was just $90 per semester. I graduated debt free, he is $90K in debt.
After we were married, my wife working as a new RN made enough to support both of us. We saved my salary until we could put 10% down to buy a new house. That took just a few months.
For him, housing cost is way higher. The median price of a house here is about $330K. Saving the $66K for a 20% down payment is a huge hurdle for his family.
When he starts a family, his deductible for a birth will be $6K. Our first born who was in intensive care for a month cost us $300.
So I do understand some of the "OK Boomer" resentment although he demonstrated none of that. He was grateful to learn from me.
It's the latest cool thing to say on social media. I find it fascinating how the twitter crowd is so easily led and how quickly they form a herd of lemmings.
Yep. These morons are unable to think for themselves.
The result of living their entire lives staring at a 5" screen, waiting for "likes". Pathetic indeed.
I posted a thread on this to another forum last week. I am a boomer - I think it's dumb, AND I understand it. The millennials have been whipped by boomers for their lack of motivation, etc. - and now they are standing up, asserting themselves. We kind of did the same thing in response to the "establishment."
It is a very dismissive phrase.
It must be horrible, though, to see old people wherever you go - and the old drivers are getting ridiculous - so many of them (us) and they are just going to get older and older and more dangerous on the road, and more irritating, in general.
Pretty sure the millennials would like to see us dead sooner rather than later.
Well, they sure do wish we'd all retire and get out of their way - LOL.
Now that I’ve read the definition of OK Boomer, I have to say I’m a proud OK Boomer. Is there such thing? I’ve made fun of the millennials in my class, stood up in my class and said jokingly the millennials were terrible, my kids were in that group. The whole class laughed about it.
So is Generation Jones, which is the latter half of the baby boom, and encompasses the generation of those of us born 1954 - 1965.
We are lumped in with the earlier boomers because we were part of the continued high birth rated. But there are a lot of very important differences between us.
Between Woodstock and Lollapalooza, between 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' and 'Just Say No,' and between Dylan going electric and Nirvana going unplugged, an invisible generation has been silent
There has been a missing piece in the generational landscape.
Originally, GenJonesers were mistakenly lumped in with Boomers because of their mutually high birth rates. But generations stem from shared formative experiences, not head counts. Over time, the original mistaken Boomer Generation definition has become widely discredited, with many top experts now embracing Generation Jones as a distinct generation.
These experts underline the importance of distinguishing between the post-WWII demographic boom in babies versus the cultural generations born during that time. Jonesers were born between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, with the exact birth years varying from nation to nation. In the U.S. and most Western countries, the birth years most often used for GenJones are 1954-1965. Extensive research has shown dramatic differences between the collective personality traits of Boomers versus Jonesers.
This makes sense to me, as someone born in the early 1960s. My dad wasn't a WW2 veteran - he went to Vietnam. HIS dad was too old in WW2 to be drafted. I started school after the Civil Rights movement and after integration. I don't remember Kennedy being shot (I was a baby). Right as I was graduating from high school, home computers were becoming a reality and by the time I was a young adult, they were common in homes and businesses so I learned along with the development of computers and the internet.
I'm the oldest of three siblings and yet my two brothers are Gen Xers? Nyahhh.
I think 20 year "generational generalities" are sort of ridiculous anyway.
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