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Posted: 5/22/2005 9:41:30 PM EDT

There must be at least a few of you out there, whats up?

Posted: 5/22/2005 9:44:44 PM EDT

[#1]

Nothing. Why?

Posted: 5/22/2005 9:53:55 PM EDT

[#2]

Billy Idols old band?
Alos every generation thinks its the Generation X anyway.

Posted: 5/22/2005 9:56:19 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Billy Idols old band?
Alos every generation thinks its the Generation X anyway.

I never knew that, I was born in 1968.

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:01:52 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Nothing. Why?

Just curious how many of you are in my age group, thats all.

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:28:44 PM EDT

[#5]

Absolutely nothing.

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:48:25 PM EDT

[#6]

GenX here...still in the shadow of the Baby Boomers and followed by the more populous and unimaginatively named GenYer's.

*puts on checkerboard Vans and breakdances*

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:49:34 PM EDT

[#7]

I was born in '81. What generation am I?

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:50:59 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I was born in '81. What generation am I?

The Pepsi Generation.

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:52:04 PM EDT

[#9]

lol
X here

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:52:26 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I was born in '81. What generation am I?

The Pepsi Generation.

Damn. I'm a Coke man.

Posted: 5/22/2005 10:58:48 PM EDT

[#11]

Sorry to hear that.

Posted: 5/22/2005 11:05:12 PM EDT

[#12]

What years are considered generation X?

Posted: 5/22/2005 11:09:18 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
What years are considered generation X?

If a person spent at least part of their teenage years in the 80's, they are in Gen X.

Posted: 5/22/2005 11:09:57 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Quoted:
What years are considered generation X?

If a person spent at least part of their teenage years in the 80's, they are in Gen X.

Gen X here

Posted: 5/22/2005 11:23:03 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
There must be at least a few of you out there, whats up?

We're leading the Pepsi generation to war...

Posted: 5/23/2005 7:35:28 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:
What years are considered generation X?

If a person spent at least part of their teenage years in the 80's, they are in Gen X.

That puts it at birth dates between '61 and '77. Though before the 80's Baby Boomers were considered those born between '46-'64...so that would suggest that GenX started with '65. A few have suggested that GenX birth dates go as late as '81 or so, but that's rare, it's generally described to end between '75-'79.

Posted: 5/23/2005 7:38:00 AM EDT

[#17]

An X'er here too.... (1970)

heers,GG

Posted: 5/23/2005 7:38:32 AM EDT

[#18]

Born 1971.

Posted: 5/23/2005 7:38:38 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
There must be at least a few of you out there, whats up?

Who's asking? NARC!

Posted: 5/23/2005 7:40:56 AM EDT

[#20]

I thought about 70% of this site was populated by GenXrs.

Posted: 5/23/2005 7:44:10 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
An X'er here too.... (1970)

Cheers,
GG

+1. Spent all of my teens in the 80s.

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:43:27 AM EDT

[#22]

Yeah, I was born in 1968 too. I don't feel 36 most of the time, but when I see little 18 y/o honeys walking around, and I realise they were born about the time I got out of high school....that makes me feel old!

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:43:55 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

There must be at least a few of you out there, whats up?

Well I'm 40 years old and I'm Gen-X. What's your question?

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:47:39 AM EDT

[#24]

1967 here.

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:49:08 AM EDT

[#25]

July 1970.....

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:51:23 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Yeah, I was born in 1968 too. I don't feel 36 most of the time, but when I see little 18 y/o honeys walking around, and I realise they were born about the time I got out of high school....that makes me feel old!

Yup, occasionaly I meet some of them and I can't believe I am Twenty years older than them, they are smokin' these days!

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:54:24 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I was born in '81. What generation am I?

I dunno - do you smell like teen spirit?

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:56:24 AM EDT

[#28]

May 1976

Posted: 5/23/2005 8:59:46 AM EDT

[#29]

I was born in '77. Just barely made it into Gen X. I watched Dukes of Hazzard, played with Transformers and GI Joes, had a Members Only jacket, had a friend with one of those red Michael Jackson jackets with a hundred zippers all over it, and I saw the rise of cable and of MTV. So I think I qualify.

My sister was born in '63, so I think she was just barely Gen-X on the other end. I always thought it was dumb that some people consider that to be a baby-boomer. Our PARENTS were baby boomers, or born during WW2 at least.

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:06:39 AM EDT

[#30]

Strauss and Howe defined Generation X in their book Generations: The History of America's Future 1584 to 2069 as being born between 1961 and 1981. The theory is that there is a recurring cycle of four types of generations in the United States, Idealist, Reactive, Civic and Adaptive. These occur in 20 year cycles. Generation X is also known as "The 13th Generation" and is considered a reactive type.

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:07:34 AM EDT

[#31]

Gen's end is in disagreement-- it's either '77 or '79 depending on which ~~psuedo-scientist~~ sociologist you read.

Anyhow, ban all the music with the phony gas chambers.

Mike

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:10:53 AM EDT

[#32]

1973

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:14:11 AM EDT

[#33]

I'm in and the 80's were a great time.

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:18:03 AM EDT

[#34]

"Strauss and Howe defined Generation X in their book Generations: The History of America's Future 1584 to 2069 as being born between 1961 and 1981"

The 1961 part seems a bit early... I would think sometime around '68-'70 would be more applicable to Gen X but I'm not a scientist and I have no book.

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:19:25 AM EDT

[#35]

'68

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:36:08 AM EDT

[#36]

If I was born in 79, am I a GenX'er?

Posted: 5/23/2005 9:38:36 AM EDT

[#37]

1-22-73

why label a generation?

Posted: 5/23/2005 10:52:03 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
The 1961 part seems a bit early... I would think sometime around '68-'70 would be more applicable to Gen X but I'm not a scientist and I have no book.

Well, it's all fuzzy logic anyway, and there's a case to be made for overlap of generational values. In a generality, it was considered the 1921-1940 generation was "The Silents" (Adaptive), those who grew up in The Great Depression, WW-II, etc., then the Boomers (Idealist), from 1941-1960, lived through the worst of the Cold War and were mostly young adults during the hippie movement, then Gen-X.

But I'm not a sociologist, nor do I play one on TV. I'm an ex-intel weenie who dabbles with computers for a living now.

Posted: 5/23/2005 10:57:43 AM EDT

[#39]

John Hughes

never did one man do so much for so few.

Posted: 5/23/2005 10:58:28 AM EDT

[#40]

'72. The good old days weren't that good , but they were o.k.

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:09:36 AM EDT

[#41]

71

What do I win?

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:10:29 AM EDT

[#42]

Born in '80, so maybe I am, maybe I'm not....

But I definitly fit in more with the genX group than the young'uns, so I'll say I am!

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:16:19 AM EDT

[#43]

who the fvck made that twit soleil moon frye/ AKA PUNKY BREWSTER a Gen X spokesho??

I saw an article where she was talking about being part of gen-x - but she was born in 76.....too late in my opinion.

Should cut off around 72

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:20:00 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
71

What do I win?

A years supply of Geritol.

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:23:02 AM EDT

[#45]

The boomers were idealists, huh? I never considered that locusts could have an ideology.

Too bad we can't tap hypocrisy as an energy source.

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:26:21 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Born in '80, so maybe I am, maybe I'm not....

But I definitly fit in more with the genX group than the young'uns, so I'll say I am!

Yeah me to

Aug 17,1980 was the day I was hatched

Am I a Gen X'er?

Posted: 5/23/2005 11:32:40 AM EDT

[#47]

I think I'm part of the Atari/Intellivision Generation... is that X? T, U, or V maybe?

Posted: 5/23/2005 1:06:53 PM EDT

[#48]

LOL! So, now we have various opinions that Generation X should be somewhere between 1967 and 1972.

A Generation has to take a span of about 20 years. That's long enough for someone to be born and then breed the next generation. It's just math. Obviously, people born toward the beginning of a generation are going to have more in common with the previous generation and people born toward the end of the generation will have more in common with the next generation.

Me, I'm 69.