<p>82… pretty accurate</p>
<p>Tail end of the baby boom, but apparently I act somewhere between Gen X and Millenials. Age 51, got a 58. I think it’s having 2 twenty-somethings that did it. They kept me up to date when they lived here. But now that they’ve moved out, I’ll probably be hopelessly behind again in a couple of years.</p>
<p>Whenever DS was home, he might teach us a trick or two (e.g., photo shop during his last short stay with us.) Both of us have tried to use FB once. We are really not into it.</p>
<p>It is funny that he (twenty-something) said to us that sometimes he felt he is “old” when he socializes with somebody who is just 3 years younger than him. It may have something to do with the fact that he interacts a lot with many older or (or even very old) people in his daily life right now. If only he were in the music career…in his “gap” year, he almost had an opportunity of touring the country with a group of musicians (or musicians-want-to-be) in his age or younger, albeit the opportunity came in slighly late.</p>
<p>I got a 90 which fits. I don’t have tattoos or additional piercings, don’t play video games and text relatively infrequently. (I call or FB more). I also put religion as important. I also called a public official for my ECs but not to actually register a complaint.</p>
<p>I think older millennials do have lots of tats and piercings. I volunteer with a NFP and the advisor has plenty of tats and piercings. Not my thing, but whatever. </p>
<p>I think our generation (late 90s to early 2000s) is a bit different than the older millenials though. We grew up with FB and twitter. </p>
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<p>I tend to think the same. There’s a big difference between someone born in 1980 (likely didn’t have internet until they were adults or nearing it - likely didn’t have a home computer until they were teenagers), someone born in 1990 (likely had internet access by the time they were teenagers - likely had a home computer for as long as they can remember - likely didn’t have any social networking before high school), and someone born in 2000 (likely had internet as long as they can remember, likely had a cell phone in elementary school, likely had social networking in elementary/middle school). </p>
<p>I remember having 30 or 40 phone numbers memorized. I remember using payphones, I remember back when no one had a cell phone. I remember when we got internet for the first time. I was born in 1990. Kids born in 1995 probably never memorized multiple phone numbers, probably never used a pay phone, and probably can’t remember a time when no one they knew had a cell phone. Though I can’t remember a time before we had a computer at home, kids born in 1985 probably can. These are big technology differences. </p>
<p>I was born in '89 and can’t remember not having a computer. I think we had one before I was born. My dad used to bring home educational games on hard disk for me to play with, and we had all the disney animated storybooks. Before that my dad had an amiga and I had a donald duck game I could play, he had it set up on the floor of his room and I could sit on a pillow and play. I got my first screenname that I picked for myself in 5th grade (AOL), I’d had one for years before that that my dad made up for me. I could touch type before I started middle school. I was wholly dependent on a landline until I was 18 though, and so was my 1992 sister. My mom was the only one with a cell phone for a long time. My dad didn’t get one until he started his business. I do remember when we got our first cordless phones, that was a big deal, and when mom let us have our own cordless phones in our bedrooms-- the clear plastic kind! And getting caller ID! I think I had myspace before high school, but I can’t remember anymore. I remember being mad that I couldn’t get a facebook when I started college because my community college didn’t give out .edu email addresses and only college students could join.</p>
<p>My fiance works in technology, and had a similar computer oriented upbringing (he was born 1984). He thinks that the giant leaps and bounds we’ve seen in technology in the last 10-15 years won’t be matched again, and there is something unique about our generation in that in our lifetime we went all the way from super nintendo to playstation, and all the other various advances in computers and phones. I think maybe he lacks imagination, it will be interesting to see how much things change between now and when our kids are going to college-- let’s hope the tuition rates don’t jump up! ;)</p>
<p>My kids had a computer in the house from before they were born (H had bought one before we were even married in the mid 1980s). The kids were playing computer games as soon as they showed interest. We had literally dozens of educational games for them and they were fearless on the computer and happy just tinkering around on it. Both kids were exempted out of the keyboarding class they would have had to take to enter private HS by showing they could do all the skills they would have learned in the class. They just picked them all up on their own.</p>
<p>The kids have also been on social media as much as they like and do skype with friends. They got cell phones when they were in middle or high school but NO smart phones until we all got iphones in late 2012. Before that, they just texted and use the phone. None of us have piercings nor tattoos and since my kids are very needle averse, I don’t think they will ever agree to any needles touching any part of their body unless medically essential.</p>
<p>I got 80 - though my birthdate does put me firmly in the millenial category anyway</p>
<p>My husband had a lap top and a computer at work before kids, but we got a desktop at home when our oldest (born 1989) was around six. I remember dialing into AOL for my five hours a week back in those days. The oldest never texts, but his younger brother born just three years later always texts, and would never ever leave a message on an answering machine. Neither have tattoos or piercings, both only have cells.</p>
<p>63 for me.</p>
<p>89…</p>
<p>yay being born in 1999</p>
<p>82…born in 1960, we got our first computer 1987. Kids are young 20’s and have kept me up to date including tattoo. DH born in 1948 slowly catching up ie texting but no tats or social media</p>
<p>I’m 17 and got a score of 56. 
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<p>Reading daily newspapers and contacting public officials are BIGGIES. I do both. S reads online papers and when he can get his hands on one, a physical paper newspaper. Of our family of 4, only I contact public officials on a fairly regular basis.</p>
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<p>I’m another who thinks Millennials need to be split in half. Those born before ~92 are different than those born after. I’m JUST on the border. I still vaguely remember a time before computers. My cousins born 96 and 01 don’t even remember dial-up internet. They don’t remember a time before social media, a time before 9/11, etc. </p>
<p>Remember the web circle ring? I’d hit for some random site and go elsewhere for the wait…
I think “early adopters” of new ideas/things even of an earlier generation are most likely to be labeled millennials since they are the first to try out new things (except for the tattoo…)</p>
<p>Not remembering a time before 9/11 is a really sad thought for me. Everything really changed after that, at least for me. Maybe not for older people who had lived through wars in the past. I was in the 7th grade and I suppose even I only have fleeting memories of what it was like before. For me it was a pivotal coming of age moment, I guess.</p>
<p>I was taking a social studies class at the time which required us to watch the news each week and find a story from a different country, and then color that country in on a map. By the end of the year we were supposed to have a certain number of countries colored in, maybe 25 or something. The teacher ended up having to cancel the assignment because hardly anybody could find anything outside Afghanistan without cheating and using the internet, and I think some parents didn’t want their kids watching. I remember my own map only had like 5 countries colored, all in the middle east except some story I had found in Ireland the week before 9/11. When you look at it that way, I wonder how much news has been lost in the years since then, how much of the goings on in the world did not get reported on because they couldn’t compete with the War on Terror?</p>
<p>Late Gen-Xer but somehow scored a 50. </p>
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<p>They don’t specify whether those newspapers are in dead tree or online forms. </p>
<p>I do read a lot of daily newspapers…but prefer doing it online as it means I don’t have to worry about recycling large amounts of paper and I can skip straight to my favorite sections. </p>
<p>Haha I’m a gen Xer with a score of 27! I think contacting government officals lowered my score a lot.</p>
<p>I took this early this morning, but didn’t post my score. Wanted to see what others got. I still don’t get it.</p>
<p>I’m 60yo and got a…5!</p>