I was born in 1979. I am very skeptical of all of this generational labeling stuff. I probably have more in common with people born in 1989 than I do with people born in 1975. So does that make me a "millennial" rather than my Officially Designated Generation (TM), Generation X?. Who cares?

These are just non-scientific, non-statistical, non-rigorous, made up terms, written up by journalists/social scientists looking to make a name for themselves, and then used by politicians to fit people into boxes, and by people to market stuff.

The only generation that really makes sense to me as a definable entity are the Baby Boomers. That was a real hump of people, born starting around the same time, for a really meaningful reason, who had a really definable culture/worldview (hippies/antiwar) and a definable counter-reaction thereto.

Since then, people, probably mostly Baby Boomers, have been obsessed with finding some name, any name, or fitting some identity, to people who come later.

But honestly, I just don't see huge real differences between someone who was born even in 1972 and someone born in 2000. All of us to a certain extent are a motley reaction to the Baby Boom, the vast majority of us born to that (overbroadly defined) generation, over an unprecedentedly vast amount of time, as a result of the fact that Baby Boomers' child-bearing years were stretched out of a longer period of time, due to professional/feminism changes, than any other prior generation.

To me, if anything at all, there's the Pre-WWII generation, there's the Baby Boomers, then there's everyone else who are, because I don't feel like making anything up, "Generation X/Millennial," and then there are children. The jury is still out for me on whether a new "generation" as some sort of a definable entity with a worldview that is definably different from 1970-2000, maybe finally started around 2000/2001, with the birth of the internet and 9/11. I might eventually be willing to concede that.