Falgos posted...
Gen Z started in 97 and I be in 2000.
Did the earphones topic get deleted?
Gonna give you the same answer I gave you there - you're wrong.
Generations aren't an official or objective measurement, so different people measure them starting and ending at different times. Some people will start Gen Z as early as the mid-90s, some will push it back all the way to 2000. None of those are really the "correct" date. The same thing happens with any number of previous generations.
Overcomplicating it even more, some people consider "microgenerations" a thing, which is basically the unique group of people on the cusp of two generations, who fall into that grey area between when one starts and another begins.
And It doesn't matter when generations
start
as much as matters when they
end
. YOU may not have grown up using tablets or smart phones from birth, but Gen Z kids were still being born as late as 2012 (give or take), so a lot of them
did
. YOU cannot remember a world before iPods. But a lot of your cohort absolutely can't remember a time before smart phones or tablets. It's perfectly valid for someone to say "Man, Gen Z were weaned on computer screens and the Internet." A lot of you
were
.
Like I mentioned in the other topic, there is a huge difference between Millennials who were basically young kids in the mid-to-late 80s versus the ones who see themselves more as mid-to-late-90s kids. There can be significant difference between the earlier examples of a generation versus the later examples of a generation. Or even the most common stereotypes of said generation.
Also, you're not a bird.