Whenever i look up how long each generation is it always varies but the most consistent is the Baby Boomers spanning from 1946-1964. Though if the following generations continued the same logic, Gen X would be 1965-1983, Millennial would be 1984-2002 (making me a late millennial instead of an early gen z), and Gen Z would be 2003-2021. But instead everyone says Gen X is 1965 to late 70’s/early 80’s, Millennial is early 80’s to mid 90’s, Gen Z is from mid 90’s to late 00’s and Gen Alpha is early 10’s and currently ongoing
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There is no defining organization or body for those labels! Different researchers list different starting and ending years for each, and many of them don’t even bother with exact years (instead opting for fuzzy ranges). Especially in the information age, specific generational classifications are incredibly hard to define. Even within Millennials and Gen Z there is a huge difference between (those born in the early-90s and grew up before smartphones and social media) and (those born in the late-90s and early 2000s that did have smartphones and social media). In fact, even when drilling deeper into the “social media era,” there’s still a huge difference between those who grew up with early Facebook and MySpace and those who grew up later with TikTok! You could make the argument that each of those distinctions could be their own “named generation” if you wanted to.
The older generations that are more associated to historic events such as the Lost Generation and WWI, the Greatest Generation and WWII, Boomers and Vietnam, etc. have more generally-accepted date ranges because of when those events took place. Many people also make the argument that the “speed of cultural shift” is much more rapid in the information age than it was for those older named generations, so it has become more difficult to pin down singular generations in an increasingly online world.
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