Do you fit your "generational personality"?

I'm GenX and no that isn't me. None of them are. None seem to fit my friends either.

I would say we are the best to adapt and learn what's new but can also get places with less tech and also function with less tech.

Gen X. Detached and sarcastic, that's me!

I've never had avocado toast, but I am emotionally exhausted.

I am Gen X. Going by the descriptions, I am a mix of Gen X and Gen Z, so my generation and my kids' generation. I've crossed out the parts that don't apply.

Generation X: The cool, detached rebels of the bunch, Gen X is like the middle child who perfected the art of side-eye and sarcasm. They grew up on grunge, latchkey independence, and an unwavering skepticism of authority. They might roll their eyes at TikTok, but they’ll still dig out their pristine record collection and insist it’s better than your Spotify playlist.

Generation Z: The meme maestros and TikTok royalty, Gen Z communicates in GIFs and ironic one-liners while dismantling outdated systems with a single tweet. Equal parts digital savant and activist, they have no time for Boomers’ lectures or slow Wi-Fi. They’ll cancel you faster than you can say “OK, Boomer,” but at least they’ll do it with hilarious captions.

I do in fact still have my record collection, although I have no record player to play it on. I prefer to listen to my Spotify playlist, which includes all my faves from the 80s, as well as new music, older music, and everything in between. 

I refuse to be the kind of person who lets technology pass them by. I want to remain up to date with all the new tech and gadgets, unlike my Boomer dad who prefers to remain wilfully ignorant! 

same - my dad was greatest generation, mum was silent. Have a boomer sibling. Dh is also the same -his parents were both silent and all 6 of his sibs were boomers.

and I've raised a millennial (who is closer to a gen x) , a gen z who identifies as a millennial, and a gen z

Gen X and the description fits. Though, the record collection is gone and I’m thoroughly enjoying Spotify.

This description of Gen X fits me, but in general I don't usually feel like Gen X... Gen X is 1965-1980 and I was born at the end of 1977. Learned to type on a typewriter in high school, looked things up on the brand new thing called the internet in college...

I’m absolutely an Xennial, and have traits of both Gen X and Millenial.

Neither of them fits me on their own.

No- I don’t fit with my generational identity/personality. I am not constrained by any of these labels.

I am a GenX raised by the Silent Generation and have Boomer older siblings.

My GenX description is pretty accurate, but I did inherit some qualities of both of those generations.

However, unlike many of GenX kids, I was not a latch key kid. My mother was June Cleaver, and I came home to an afternoon snack and supper on the tabe at 5:30 on the dot.

DH and I are raising 2 elder genZ kids.

I am a cusp Baby Boomer. It does not describe me at all. I am more Gen X, but that description doesn't really fit either.

I was also raised by the Silent Generation but my kids borrow my Netflix and Prime passwords. I love my iPad, my phone GPS, YouTube and think so m@ny things are so much easier than we ever had it and U don’t really miss those days. I do still have have my record collection. I don’t think any of the categories describe me.

I’m Generation Jones between Boomer and Gen X.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Generation Jones is the generation or social cohort between the Baby Boom generation and Generation X. The term was coined by American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who argues that the term refers to a full distinct generation born from 1954 to 1965. Media coverage of Generation Jones typically has described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell's dates. Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, primarily its second half. A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers.

Members of Generation Jones were children and teens during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation. Unlike "Leading-Edge Boomers", most of Generation Jones did not grow up with World War II veterans as parents, and, as they reached adulthood, there was no compulsory military service and no defining political cause, as opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War was for the older boomers. Much of their parents' generation was sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. Also, by 1955, a majority of U.S. households had at least one television set, and so unlike Leading-Edge Boomers born from 1946 to 1953, many members of Generation Jones (trailing-edge boomers) have never lived in a world without television—similar to how many members of Generation Z (1997—2012) have never lived in a world without personal computers or the internet, or mobile phones.

Generation Jones were children during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and were young adults when HIV/AIDS became a worldwide threat in the 1980s. The majority of Joneses reached maturity from 1972 to 1979, while younger members came of age from 1980 to 1983, just as the older Baby Boomers had come of age from 1964 to 1971.

The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving. Pontell suggests that Jonesers inherited an optimistic outlook as children in the 1960s, but were then confronted with a different reality as they entered the workforce during Reaganomics and the shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, which ushered in a long period of mass unemployment. Mortgage interest rates increased to above 12 percent in the mid-eighties, making it virtually impossible to buy a house on a single income. De-industrialization arrived in full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s; wages would be stagnant for decades, and 401(k)s replaced pensions, leaving them with a certain abiding "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days of the past.

Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier portion of the Baby Boomer population; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of doting and affluence granted to older Boomers but denied to them.

The term has enjoyed some currency in political and cultural commentary, including during the 2008 United States presidential election, where Barack Obama (born 1961) and Sarah Palin (born 1964) were on the presidential tickets. As of 2024, the current and preceding vice presidents, Kamala Harris (born 1964) and Mike Pence (born 1959) respectively, are members of Generation Jones.

Yes!  It's ridiculous to have someone born in 1961 lumped into the same generation as someone born in 1945.  I really identified with Generation Jones when I first heard of it. Like Gen X, we were latchkey kids who were kind of neglected. Unlike the early Boomers who came of age during prosperous times, we came of age during difficult economic times. Gas went over $1.00 per gallon just as I got my drivers license. The sexual revolution and the hippie era were during our childhood, paving the was for the hedonism of the late Seventies and the Eighties. Generation Jones is definitely a generation unto itself.