Thread: Starbucks Begs Conservatives to Come Back

Originally Posted by Colonel

I think the original idea was what I described, 18 or a bit older in 2000. Then those got older and it changed. By now the term has little meaning.

Not sure the term no longer has meaning as it's used consistently when people are referring to the generation.

Here's something I pulled off the web:

Who are the Millennials?
The millennial generation is the generation of children born between 1982 and 2002, some 81 million children who have taken over K-12, have already entered college and the workforce. This generation will replace the Baby-boomers as they retire.

What are the birth years of the millennial generation?
According to Iconoclast, a consumer research firm, the first Millennials were born in 1978. Newsweek magazine reported that the Millennial generation was born between 1977 and 1994. In separate articles, the New York Times pegged the Millennials at 1976-1990 and 1978-1998.

What is the age of Generation X and Y?
Millennials are currently aged 20-35, or born between 1980 and the end of 1994 (with some more generous definitions taking in those born up to 2000). They also get called Generation Y, because they follow on from Generation X (born 1965-1979), and other, less flattering names.

And when I googled for the name of the kids of the Millennials, this is what I got.

Wikipedia:
Generation Z (also known as Centennials, iGeneration, iGen, Post-Millennials or the Homeland Generation in the United States) is the demographic cohort after the Millennials. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, and as of yet there is little consensus about ending birth years.

A significant aspect of this generation is the widespread usage of the Internet from a young age; members of Generation Z are typically thought of as being comfortable with technology, and interacting on social media websites for a significant portion of their socializing. Some commentators have suggested that growing up through the Great Recession has given the cohort a feeling of unsettlement and insecurity.

Let's ask the internet what they thought back when the millennium was about to happen :

http://www.newsweek.com/now-its-time...on-next-162866

The page is from new years eve 1999 and it says :

"The millennials, demographers have named them, born between 1977 and 1994, 70 million strong, the biggest bump in our national line graph since their parents, the baby boomers."

6 to 23 is what they were. Or "not quite adults".

Originally Posted by Colonel

Let's ask the internet what they thought back when the millennium was about to happen :

http://www.newsweek.com/now-its-time...on-next-162866

The page is from new years eve 1999 and it says :

"The millennials, demographers have named them, born between 1977 and 1994, 70 million strong, the biggest bump in our national line graph since their parents, the baby boomers."

6 to 23 is what they were. Or "not quite adults".

That's interesting... it bumps the years even a little farther back which puts all 3 of my kids in the older end of The Millennials. I'm going to see all 3 of them this evening and I'll ask them what they consider themselves and even if it matters.

Originally Posted by A.J.

and even if it matters.

Good point - does it really matter

I scratch my head thinking why media/society makes a issue on specific names to label people born in certain years

Originally Posted by Cardinal TT

Good point - does it really matter

I scratch my head thinking why media/society makes a issue on specific names to label people born in certain years

It seems to me that the term is used to refer to "those scary young people that are quite different to you". The problem is that some of them are turning 40 rather than 25 by now so it doesn't really work any more. Some are using it to refer to people born around the millennium instead, the first crop of 18 year olds "born in this century" is due shortly.

Originally Posted by A.J.

Boomers were the generation born after WW2 to about 1963. Children of the Boomers = GenX. Children of GenX = GenY to start with but gradually were renamed Millennials.

So what was the generation before us Baby Boomers called...and the generation before that and before that? Or did the naming of generations start with the Boomers?

this stuff always makes me chuckle.

If conservative people ever really checked into which of the companies they spent money with, how that was spent, or what the politics of the company were, they'd never be able to leave their house.. or even use stuff in it!

away with their phones.. anway with their cable/tv .. away with.. well you get the picture.

I don't often go to Starbucks, I still shopt at Target (my husband works there)

AND, if I can support conservative companies, I do.