Community Chat

[luvmybeetle]

I was born in 1945 and was always told I was a War Baby.  But the parents of my generation, I remember, were called the greatest generation.  We were taught respect and to not talk back to our parents........welllllll that didn't always work.  I do remember though in the late 60's people were not very respectfull.  That was when we women came out of our shells and started to speak up and do our own thing.  

[SouthernBee]

@just bee : I was born in 1954 and relate more to the Boomers list.

[Laura14]

I hate to break it to Mr. Pontell and his chart, but he is definitely an amateur. He seems to have mixed up GenXers with Jonesers and Millenials. His chart for us is almost all 90s. Our heyday was the 80s. 

We played cassette tapes not CDs and Born to Run and Purple Rain were mainstays of our teen years not the Jonesers or whatever they would like to call themselves while Nirvana and the grunge scene along with Melrose Place, OJ, and the Simpsons are solidly 90s classics and belong to the Millenials.

Cyberspace and chat rooms didn't come into being until we were almost 30. Again wrong generation. We had telephone party lines and slam books as our versions of this. 

I know we are the smallest generation and we don't much care what others think, but at least attempt to speak to one of us if you are going to create what you think our experiences were.

This is one of the worst charts I've ever seen. It's hard to offend GenX, but mission accomplished, sir.

[avid shopper]

I have never had the "keep up with the Jones" desire.  I'm a Boomer and an "old hippie"

[LindaSal]

@SloopJohnB I agree with you.  Also born in 1960 I kind of like having the "boomer" label.   It's like a badge of honor, LOL!   Funny, as my two kids are 17 months apart almost to the day and same here, people always thought they were twins.  Some people still ask that and they are now 40 and 41.   

[Seminole2]

@Winkk I agree.  I am 1958.  Definitely relate to both areas.

[just bee]

For me, Pontell makes sense.  My two older sisters were married and out of the house and my brother had joined the Air Force.  The sister I was closest to was in high school and I was still in elementary school.

What my siblings and I experienced was definitely different.

It's good to be a Joneser. 

[SloopJohnB]

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@LindaSal wrote:

@SloopJohnB I agree with you.  Also born in 1960 I kind of like having the "boomer" label.   It's like a badge of honor, LOL!   Funny, as my two kids are 17 months apart almost to the day and same here, people always thought they were twins.  Some people still ask that and they are now 40 and 41.   

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@LindaSal   interesting.... Mine are 34 and 35.....while different month and year same numerical day of their respective months.  

[mrshckynut]

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@amyb wrote:

@Winkk I think they also call you "the Greatest Generation", the WWII generation..

@amyb   the greatest generation was 1901-1927     my husband was born in 1939 and he said it was the silent generation 

mrshckynut 

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[Karie2022]

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@just bee wrote:

@Winkk 

I'm a Joneser, part of Generation Jones.

My siblings are Boomers, but I came along a little later and always felt I was a different generation.

That's why I was so happy to see that those born between 1954 and 1965 had been "reclassified."

Definitely a Joneser.

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I agree I was born at the end of 63 and have a brother born in 65....yet we were two different generations-so silly-I have way more in common with gen x or now Joneser than I do with baby boomers. I wasnt born yet when Kennedy died and do not remember really much of the 60's. I grew up mostly in the 70's and 80's.