seriously I was laughing about this. a boomer, wtf does that even mean, I didndonuffin
Actually, you (and I) are of what’s known as the “lost generation”. We belong to neither the boomers nor the Xr’s. We came up too late to be a part of the glory years if you will, of the boomers and were basically too old to grasp onto technological new world inclinations of the Xr’s. We tend to be cynical they say.
This is interesting, because being born in 59 would you make 30 in 89 and 35 in 94, which doesn't seem that old to enjoy better computers and the internet and eventually the www. It seems almost the perfect age as you have money for the tech without being old.
I consider old 49+
I suppose it would depend on a few things such as geographics, peers, educational experiences, fianancial situation and such as one came into age prior to the computer boom. I do very much remember them calling us the Lost Generation right to our face as early as junior high. In a recent conversation with a friend in his is late forties about the generations, he considered me a boomer. Correcting him as to me being of the “Lost Generation”, he said he’d never heard of it which made me go online as we spoke. I was surprised it did not come up so readily and finally found an article about it which I read aloud to him. As I read the characteristics of the lost gen we would laugh in agreement that indeed I had those traits. Found it interesting that my generation had basically been swallowed up “officially” into the Boomer Generation and there was no mention of the Lost Generation in the big line up as shown today. It was weird as I had always thought of myself as from the Lost Generation throughout my life and then suddenly here there is no mention of it. I definitely don’t relate to boomers nor do I relate to gen x. I get along with either one and can find some common ground either way, but no I don’t feel a part of either one completely either.
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