At least that is what this person calls those of us who were born in the late 70s and early 80s. Did anyone on here graduate from college in the spring of 2003? She makes an interesting point about that class...you were the last college class to graduate before social networking took over the world...

Myspace-July 2003
Facebook-February 2004
Twitter-March 2006
Google+-June 2011

http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generation/

[Edited on April 27, 2015 at 9:02 PM. Reason : lol grammeerrr polease!]

4/27/2015 8:59:04 PM

Quote :

"ANYONE ONE ON"

4/27/2015 9:00:11 PM

Here Lies Andy

peperony and chease

4/27/2015 9:01:32 PM

^justinh524 died of dysentery!

4/27/2015 9:04:31 PM

I love reading about generational trends, especially Strauss–Howe.

4/27/2015 9:41:17 PM

How old is Anna Garvey? Cause AOL was real, and it was comically social...way more social than posting stuff for your grandmother to "like."

My bad. I just glanced at the article and realized Big4Country did a terrible job of summarizing it for us.

Sorry, B4C, but in your post, you managed to miss all of the remotely interesting things this woman had to say.

4/27/2015 9:48:44 PM

^I wasn't trying to summarize it, just posting it for others to read.

4/27/2015 9:50:48 PM

I hear ya. My bad.

4/27/2015 10:01:30 PM

surely we can find a better characterization for our generation than this.

4/27/2015 10:05:36 PM

Whoa, whoa, whoa, you get the fuck out of my generation. I don't know you.

4/27/2015 10:09:13 PM

If I could make myself a 20-year-old millenial, I totally would.

4/27/2015 10:13:53 PM

How old are you presently?

Cause you've talked about how young/handsome-looking you are, and I'm thinking you could make it work.

4/27/2015 10:17:42 PM

I'm 33. And in the 8 12 months since I made that comment, I've aged horrifically (via a combination of lack of sleep, receding hairline, and a brief assocation with electronic cigarettes, which are bad for your skin, incidentally). So now I'm a combination of handsome and ugly, with ugly predominating.

4/27/2015 10:25:03 PM

I hear ya. My bad.

4/27/2015 11:13:30 PM

remember that skiing game with the yeti that always ate you?

fuck that game

4/27/2015 11:42:30 PM

Ski free?

You must have sucked at it.

4/28/2015 12:13:07 AM

The generation coming up now is A.D.D. as fuck. They do not even recall not having smartphones, wifi, or internet everywhere.

Also the teen pregnancy rate continues to drop.....

4/28/2015 12:28:34 AM

yo fuck you and fuck that yeti

4/28/2015 7:55:59 AM

The yeti only ate you if you didn't start at a starting line and didn't finish between the finish line flags.

4/28/2015 8:55:21 AM

Quote :

"Did anyone on here graduate from college in the spring of 2003?"

I did.

I'm so fucking old

4/28/2015 8:55:37 AM

crap i would have thought you were 3 years younger than me rather than 3 years older.

4/28/2015 8:56:38 AM

I act younger...considerably younger

4/28/2015 9:19:25 AM

I think facebook was starting my senior year at State ('05??). But then I went to grad school for three years...so I was all up in that shit.

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 9:24 AM. Reason : .]

4/28/2015 9:24:19 AM

that and i'm balding...

facebook started in 04 but required a .edu email then...


[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 9:27 AM. Reason : .]

4/28/2015 9:25:50 AM

This article hit the nail on the head for me.

I've always felt like I belonged to this orphaned micro-generation drifting somewhere between X and Millennial; too young to be a member of the former and too old to be lumped in with the latter.

4/28/2015 10:07:50 AM

i agree... i really felt like just 2 years behind us shit got lazy quick.. but then the xers are a whole different bunch.

4/28/2015 10:16:07 AM

I fit into this subset pretty nicely. I like the Oregon Trail Generation title

4/28/2015 10:24:09 AM

I was born Jan 80 and this hit the nail on the head.

4/28/2015 11:45:28 AM

Yea works for me. I am not analog as fuck like X'ers, but not all digital like Millenials. I grew up with a Tandy 1000 in my room, playing on BBS's prior to the internet, mobile gaming only including a Gameboy and had a bagphone in my first car in HS. Several friends made their first cellphone call on that very phone. However I still made mix tapes, did not have a smartphone/tablet/laptop as a kid, and remember life before social networking.

4/28/2015 12:33:10 PM

does anyone here even lift play Oregon Trail???

4/28/2015 1:06:08 PM

I never made a mix-tape, but I use to burn CDs as a side business in high school.

It always took about 30 minutes to download a song on dial-up. I would put 20 or 30 songs on download before I went to bed and pray that my connection stayed up through the night so they would all be downloaded when I woke up.

4/28/2015 1:20:42 PM

Is the Oregon trial the game that came before amazon trail?

4/28/2015 1:23:58 PM

Quote :

"I am not analog as fuck like X'ers, but not all digital like Millenials. I grew up with a Tandy 1000 in my room, playing on BBS's prior to the internet, mobile gaming only including a Gameboy and had a bagphone in my first car in HS. Several friends made their first cellphone call on that very phone. However I still made mix tapes, did not have a smartphone/tablet/laptop as a kid, and remember life before social networking."

This! Except for the Tandy 1000. And you forgot to mention the bagphone was ONLY to be used in case of emergency. Otherwise you just waited until you got to a landline before answering that page.

4/28/2015 2:07:26 PM

Yea the bagphone was not for drawn out communications, but a quick heads up for where you were at. I think we had 60 minutes/month on that thing.

And you were missing out if you didn't make a mix tape. To show how much of a split between generations I am, I made a mix tape of music from Warcraft 2!

4/28/2015 6:48:09 PM

Quote :

"Yea the bagphone was not for drawn out communications, but a quick heads up for where you were at. I think we had 60 minutes/month on that thing."

60? Living high on the hog there. I only had 30/month on my Motorola wedge phone in HS. Definitely only for use if a)the car broke down or b)I wasn't going to make it home before curfew.

I was born in '80, graduated college in '02, and I definitely agree with the article. I don't quite fit in with GenX (even though according to some groupings '80 is the tail end) but I feel no connection whatsoever with millenials.

4/29/2015 12:57:10 AM

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"I never made a mix-tape, but I use to burn CDs as a side business in high school."

I still have most of my mix tapes. Neither of my cars have cassette players, but I do still have a working (I think) Aiwa walkman Also been meaning to transfer my mix tape play lists over to CDs or mp3s for a while now...who knows if I'll ever get around to that.

4/29/2015 9:27:59 AM

Here is a really fun and humorous version of the game...

http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-Oregon-Trail-80337.htm

4/29/2015 8:09:08 PM

Site works great on mobile

4/29/2015 8:12:03 PM