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According to those dates you put up I belong to Gen X, MTV Generation and Gen Y, but I feel kinda like a combination of Gen X and MTV Gen, after all I did get into music very early on, my musical taste was and still is very Gen X and I also watched a lot of MTV when I was a teenager and heard a lot of songs there first.
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Likewise, I don't understand the appeal of them. The other day I was walking past a farmer's field which was full of cows, and I sat down and watched them for a while because it was sunny. I saw a moribund-looking cow slowly walk towards another one and moo in its face, and then walk off. Later I thought to myself: that's Facebook! Unless I'm missing something, Facebook just seems like a virtual-cowfield where gormless humans can browse around and make meaningless noises at each other. When I had my account, every time I logged on it was all: 'you've been poked!' (by someone I don't know) 'check out this video of a dog on skateboard' 'you've been poked!' (by someone I avoid in real life) 'you've just joined the Adolf Hitler Appreciation Society' 'you've been poked!' Until I started to hate myself just for opening the account. |
i was born in 1974 so i look like im inbetween generations, the blank generation perhaps!
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I hated Mtv. I hated myspace. My facebook account goes for months without being logged in. I don't like the music associated with my generation for the most part, I also don't like the "alternative" music associated with my generation for the most part.
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So Baby Boomers knew what was going on and fought against it , 70s Jones/Blank Gen'ers got washed up in confusion , media took a stronghold and mesmerized the mtv generation , and....now ? It seems like most people have the Blankness of the 70s in that bad events are thrown into their faces every day but theres such a huge insane onsaught of information that everyone has thrown up their hands and turned away .
Except for a wave of environmentalists . Its like , we dont know what exactly is going on , but we might want to stop driving cars... I'm not sure where we're at . Having the internet has caused just as much confusion as usefulness in terms of digging up information for ourselves . |
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I don't belong to a generation. I was never born. I've always existed and I've always been age 22. |
Having just seen your latest pic of yrself, I thought you were 22 about 22 years ago.
As for facebook, I tried it one night, but wasn't too comfortable with everyone being there. I guess I dropped out of that generation. Soon I might be forced to succumb to it again as I have friends in other cities and I can't be bothered to call them all the time. |
Haha. Just drinking what was there.
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Friends you can't be bothered to call aren't friends. Which is one of the problems of facebook, I'm still in contact with people I don't want to be in contact with. Anyway, you could just use email. |
The list is definitely off.
I'm Generation X, and there's never been any question of that, but according to the list, only by two years. Which means Thurston Moore isn't Generation X, nor Mark Arm, nor, get this Douglas Coupland who wrote the book that named the term to refer to his generation. Also leaves out Richard Linkletter, who's movie Slacker is usually conisidered the defining film of my generation! We've had to either embrace or reject slackerdom ever since. These are the "Generation Spokesmodels" for X, so obviously the years have moved over time. I think the media kept moving up "Generation X" for quite a while to encompass more people into slackerdom, since they obviously weren't boomers. Finally they dreamt up "Generation Y" to deal with the real kids when we slackers could no longer pass ourselves off as "youth culture", despite literally a couple decades getting away with it. I remember hearing about it when Mark Arm turned 40 and realizing for the first time what it was like for the boomers when Mick Jagger did. Before Coupland came up with Generation X (which I've always been annoyed with for somehow being lumped into Billy Idol's first band!) we were widely proclaimed "The Pepsi Generation" on tv commercials all of the time. |
Generation Y. I am indifferent. Screamingskull, I think this generation is really a shallow. Annoying as hell.
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just like the great depression taught a whole generation "the value of a buck" and the importance of saving money early... ..the tech bubble taught gen x that if you can design a website or help old people get their e-mail, people will just always give you ridiculous gobs of money, which isn't real anyway until you can see it on yr computer screen when yr logged on to yr bank... and there's no need to try to save this "money" that really just amounts to a number on a screen - unless yr trying to get the HIGH SCORE. instead you should buy a lot of houses which you can't afford on sub-prime mortgages that you now have to sell at a loss. ...thank god i'm renting. |
^^^ gawd... i sound like a fucking old person...
um... music rawks. ...i'm going to go ride my skateboard now. |
i'm between the mtv generation and generation y. i was born in 1982 and i grew up watching ren and stimpy, beavis and butthead and stuff like that and green day, rancid and nirvana were the first bands i got into when i saw their music videos back in 1994.
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That's way more Generation Y than Generation X. Generation X never wanted to make money in the first place. We were happy to live in a group house with a bunch of psychopaths in demi-famous punk bands while working for Kinko's or bartending. That's why we were called Slackers! Gen Y were the dotcommers and Web 2.0 kids, except the newer end of the generation are even more obsessed with fake money - i.e. magic items of World of Warcraft that they can sell on eBay. They seem more interested in living with their parents playing videogames through their 20s than living in a group house paying rent. |
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oh man me too. and i would use them for all my assignments. i remember my 12 year old self being outraged when my new laptop didn't have a floppy disk drive. |
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I took a typing class with actual typewriters. The only computers on campus were in the math lab, and who the hell would want to go in there, even to play computer games?? |
Let's see, I remember typing classes with old school IBM computers that were extremely boring in everyway with the floppy, floppy disks. Not the latter hard disks called floppy disks. And then I remember taking a required "how to use the internet" class in high school, spent the whole class playing flash games.
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oh man the typing classes were sweet. we had some turtle program that taught us how to write really simple programs to move a turtle on the computer
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i remember those typing classes. in middle school we used typewriters still (and i'm not THAT old). i never had an how to use the internet class before. |
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exactly. i'm taling about the Web 0.5 set... we were using telnet message boards before the internet had been invented... telnet was great for instant messaging also, since cell phones hadn't been invented either.... "which computer lab are you at? i'll meet you over there - we should go out later." i mean, what does Rob I. do for money? helpdesk for a law firm. everyone i know who's not in school or an architect does that... "oh, i fix the computers and scanners at the Kinko's" ... "oh, i do IT for an architecture firm." .... "oh, i do the digital x-rays at the hospital." ... "oh, i run the server at an independent political library." ... "oh, i manage the database at a co-operatively owned video rental store." ... "oh, i work for IBM." ...my brother manages the video conferencing setup and voice-over-IP at an investment firm. give a slacker a computer and they're just gonna slack digitally... and occassionally get paid a fuckload of money. short of that, why bother working at all? |
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ha ha ha ha i dropped out of the phd to do just that sorta |
I am the "ME" generation.
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Sorry I have a mac.
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macs = shit macshit |
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You and Macs are about as interesting as Adam and the Magick Markers. |
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Fair enough, plenty of my friends went that route too. I somehow just missed it by djing '80s hits until I woke up one day as a supervisor for a state Attorney General's Office in the Consumer Protection Division. Which sounds so much more important than those jobs at Intel and Microsoft that pay three times as much. |
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yeah? then do one better. come on. say something interesting. do it. |
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I hope I do fairly often. I honestly try to, which I hope counts for something. That's not the trick though, the trick is to say the same uninteresting thing over and over as if that somehow makes it interesting. You have plenty of worthwhile things to say, your broken record anti-Mac tirade just isn't it. |
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well i just spent half of my weekend trying to connect a macshit to the internet (it only takes 1 WEP key). and getting it to print (no official drivers for laserjet 1020). and realizing it's the slowest fucking computer i've used in years. the little spinning color wheel keeps idiots enthralled while they endlessly wait for apps to launch. so i have plenty of material. mac are shit-- superior marketing, mediocre product. there. |
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And I suppose if the Magick Markers are in town, then Adam won't miss them either so he can tell us all about it too. I rest my case. |
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tell me more about the hackintosh. - have you tried it, or known someone who was? |
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no but i read some company was offering a clone for $400 this past weekend the one i got is the 17" macbook pro. what a piece of crap. but anyway, i'm back at my chunky pc keyboard-- sweet punching of the keys. but i digress. find this shit here |
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you have a mac don't you? and you think it's the greatest thing ever, right? confess. |
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