"The Neal Shankman Generation - A Blind Spot in the Social Media Discourse"

[somepeople]

If you were born in a certain time and place -- specifically, Rochester, New York, in the waning days of the Ford administration -- You can't help but feel more than a little invisible in the endless stream of speculation about the Millennials and how social media transformed what it has meant to grow up in America in their time

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[starfishchick]

Sorry, this is a very shallow comment of "OMG Pimp Wars"!

[somepeople]

It was a shallow posting! It was completely meant as a put-on in response to another article someone linked to on FB about "The Oregon Trail Generation" and how nobody took them (us) into consideration in the conversation about social media usage. I figured that, eventually, *everyone* would need to write an article like this explaining how the exact date of their births and the exact circumstances of their lives from childhood on impacts their own special way of using social media. We are all snowflakes!

("Pimp Wars," indeed. I didn't even understand half of it at age 14, but I managed to win at least one epic game of it. I am far too enlightened for such sexist grotesquerie now that I am a grown-up.)