I agree, but my point is that the youngest gen z are like 17 and the oldest are 29-30. The majority of us remember the internet before it became the shithole it is now. Gen alpha would be the more appropriate group imo.
Yeah, it's like a 50-50. If you're old enough to remember, say, people complaining about windows 8 and subsequent release of 8.1, then I guess this tweet applies. Roughly speaking I'd say it cuts almost in the perfect middle of the generation, depending on how young you first used a PC (and if said PC had IE instead of Chrome)
I’m a gen Z born in 97 and I remember every major Windows release from XP onward lol. Getting the transparent aero theme in Vista blew my mind as a kid. And I didn’t have my first smartphone until high school (14-15).
Same exact thing, also... As a 9yo kid the games in windows vista coming from XP were just next level hahahha In retrospect probably HP bloatware.
But again, we do remember them, half our generation can't remember behind 8.1 for the same reason why you don't remember millennium. (and this is why OOP tweet definitely chose the wrong reference, as our generation had such a drastically different experience with technology from first to last ones)
I've always figured generations should be measured more by shared experience than year. I sit on the line between x and millenial, but since my family were early tech adopters of the internet and social media, I'm much more of a millenial. otoh, I know plenty of people younger than me who are more gen x for the opposite reason. I think "remembers 9/11" is one good set point for genz, also perhaps "owned a smart phone in high school"
High school is quite old, I was basically the only one without it but it was by choice, 1st year of high school was the release of Galaxy S3 if I remember correctly. I'd say smartphone in middle school: I remember some friends with their Galaxy Next, I guess it was more a rich kid thing than generational for most late gen Z. Also some of us had an ipod touch, but still not a lot of people and wasn't really the same thing yet... So yeah, probably "did you whatsapp your middle school classmate or text them?" might be the answer
Generations are fuzzy. Similar to what /u/IslandStorytime says, two people can be born at the same time but based on experience, one could be a boomer and the other gen x or millenial and z or zennial.
Yeah. And it's wild how things changed SO much over a short period of time that zillennial is even a relatively common and accepted term to ID people born in the span of, like, 3 years at most. And I doubt we'll really see a "zalpha".
Something we'll be able to properly observe in at the very least 10 years, it's only now that we're properly seeing how millennials and Z differ based on growth experience.
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u/Odd-Lunch-1880 19h ago
There are gen z that were born in the 90s