Comments | idiosyncreant: So Millenials is defined here as "born in the 80s" which makes me feel funny

idiosyncreant

So Millenials is defined here as "born in the 80s" which makes me feel funny

Jul 01, 2012 08:17

Portraits of Millenials with Their Stuff (And It Isn't Much)

This article is almost cursory--I'd love to see a deeper exploration of this, and more of the images (you can find them on the artist's site here: All I Own)

I came across this while I had all my stuff moved out into the living room, and since I'm of the right generation, I could totally ( Read more... )

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bat_cheva July 1 2012, 14:05:33 UTC

You've seen our house. I can but cringe and whimper at the thought of doing that will all my stuff. *shudders*

idiosyncreant July 1 2012, 15:09:29 UTC

I don't know if it's fair to compare people who have houses, this is definitely "city people in loft apartments" kind of thing, and the fact that I live in a bedroom in my parents' house means I can't accumulate the stuff to fill a house.

But it's interesting to realize that a lot of people in my generation are still in school or job-searching at an age where our parents were mostly settled...

bat_cheva July 1 2012, 20:50:57 UTC

I've thought for some years now that Society has evolved so much in the past 40 years that life in general is too expensive for most people to be able to go out on their own. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

idiosyncreant July 2 2012, 05:33:23 UTC

Agreed!

jade_sabre_301 July 1 2012, 22:45:24 UTC

I dislike being labeled a "millenial." Intensely.

/entirety of comment

idiosyncreant July 2 2012, 05:31:00 UTC

That's kind of funny to me. Then again, I associate that term with the Y2K silliness (I SURVIVED THE YEAR 2000--NOTHING HAPPENED) and think it is waaaaay better sounding than X-er, which is like, non-entity. So.

The main reason the *definition* of it is weird to me is that it puts me and my younger siblings in a different generation. But we are!

jade_sabre_301 July 2 2012, 14:37:57 UTC

See, I would prefer they label your younger siblings as "millennials"--in part because the word has a tweeny sound to it, and in part because they're the ones who are growing up in the new millennium. But if they're going by "came of age at the start of the new millennium," then I guess I can see how we would get that. It just doesn't sound...right. When I think "millennial" I think of "kid who has grown up having all this technology" (iPods, cell phones with no antennas, high-speed internet, etc.) rather than "kid who learned to use this technology as it was introduced." "Millennial" sounds too high-tech-y for the sort of hands-on bulky-equipment learning we did.

(In other news, my twelve-year-old adopted cousin was texting my fiance and asked if he would know what "lol" meant. I stared at her and told her "we invented lol." And she said, "I wasn't sure because my mom and dad don't always know these things--" and I said "your mom and dad are in their FIFTIES I am TWENTY-FOUR are you SERIOUSLY GROUPING US TOGETHER" and she ( ... )

idiosyncreant July 2 2012, 16:11:59 UTC

Sorry, hon, that's harsh, in a way she didn't mean or realize of course. If you're an adult, you're not "one of them" to teen/tweens anymore.

Especially the ones who feel like they're JUST reaching their teens, you're not part of the group they're trying to be part of, too far off...

My mom first used the word in reference to my generation when *I* was a teen, and Millenial is a kind of silly word, but it was totally hip in those late 90s, so it feels retro to me, like the "Millenium Blue" that everything seemed to be coming in...

It's def. weird to be like, "So um, yeah, I remember when kids my age first started using e-mail and chat groups. Also, cellphones."