What is Generation Y?
Generation Y refers to the population group in the US born from 1976-2000. They are sometimes called echo boomers because some of them are the children of baby boomers. On the other hand, some Generation Y children, especially those born in the late 1980s or afterwards, may be the grandchildren of baby boomers. Other names for this group are the Millennials, the Internet Generation, and the abbreviated Gen Y or Gen Yers. There are some vagaries in defining Generation Y, as it can encompass two generations. A child born in 1976, probably to a true baby boomer, could easily have a child born in 1996, 20 years later. There’s no official consensus on the beginning or end term of Generation Y, and the term may be considered as a pejorative one, just as the term Generation X is sometimes used in a negative sense. Echo boomer may be inaccurate too, since the real rise in birth rates that defines many boomers having babies is much more limited. This increase in birthrates, approaching levels o
The generation that was born briefly before us was referred to as “Generation X”. They were the long haired, rebellious teens of the late 60’s and 70’s. We’re “Generation Y” because of a play on the alphabet. I was born in 1978 and with me has grow technology, but in a ridiculously scary way. There’s no way that you can manage such an independent generation.
No ppl in my generation, i’m 14. I think Generations, new ones, are made once every 20 years, or somewhere around there. We’re called Gen. Y cause we ask so many darn questions. Whether it be about global warming, technology, economics, etc. I think you had to be born in the late/mid ’80s or early 90s to be the first ones born in Gen. Y.
