Xennials: the generation sandwiched between gen-Xers and millennials
There’s a new micro generation seeping into pop culture, and it’s geared towards those who don’t feel like they identify with millennials or generation X.
Xennial is a term being used to describe people born between 1977 and 1983. The micro generation is a mix between the “pessimistic gen-X” and “optimistic millennial,”
The years that make up the millennial generation vary. Many experts have defined the generation as anyone born between 1981 and 2004.
Generation X is the group following the baby boomer generation (1946 to 1964) and preceding the millennials. The parameters that make up generation X range from 1965 to 1984 (but the dates are not set in stone).
Then there are the xennials, known to be born when the first Star Wars trilogy was released.
The xennial generational category isn’t a new idea. It was written about in a 2014 article in Good Magazine by Sarah Stankorb and Jed Oelbaum.
“Between generation X and the millennials, there’s a group of people currently in their late 20s and early 30s who don’t identify with either label. We call them the xennials — a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of gen-X and the blithe optimism of millennials,” the authors wrote.
But the term xennials seems to be sticking.What makes the generation stick out, is the group’s interaction with technology,
“We hit this social media and IT digital technology boom in our 20s,” he said in the article. “It was a particularly unique experience. You have a childhood, youth and adolescence free of having to worry about social media posts and mobile phones.”
Even Babies have their own social media accounts
“Then we hit this technology revolution before we were maybe in that frazzled period of our life with kids and no time to learn anything new. We hit it where we could still adopt in a selective way the new technologies,” – xennial – Global News
Others have taken to social media to express their thoughts on the generation classes. What’s yours? Who do you think are the most tech Savy out of the two Generation?
