Question about generations...;)?

[Allie]

Well, first came the Baby Boom generation. After WWII, all the young people got together, got married, and began having babies like nobody's business. Between 1945 and 1960 there was a huge spike in the number of babies born. Those babies are now moving into Social Security age, putting a strain in the federal budget. But between 1950 and now, this generation could be seen moving through statistics like a basketball through a snake!

Gen X was the first generation after the baby boomers. They are sometimes called the 'baby bust' generation because there were so many fewer of them. For instance in the 1950s there was a huge boom in the building of elementary schools to accomodate the Baby Boom generation, but by the mid 1960s elementary schools were being closed because now so many more high schools were needed. The kids that were elementary-school aged lost out. They lived in the shadow of the Baby Boom generation. They tended to feel alienated and disaffected. Gen X were kids who grew up with presidents like Ronald Reagan and GHW Bush. They saw the beginning of the computer revolution and the Internet. Grunge and Hip-Hop music were Gen X phenomenon.

Gen Y followed. They are sometimes called 'the Millennial Generation' or even the Echo Boomers, because they are the children of the Baby Boom Generation, and because the Baby Boom Generation was so big, the Gen Y generation was also big. Gen Y kids grew up with computers and the Internet, and it became an important part of their culture. They're the ones who use Facebook and MySpace and Twitter, who carry laptops to school, who invented texting abbreviations like IDK and BFF.