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[Gentlefish]

The ever-applicable XKCD strikes again:

[Angle]

I think one o the things that'd really help is a better way of communicating. You can only talk about so much through a linear forum like this, that's why I've been working on my Agora Project - to allow large number of people to talk about complex ideas without the debate drowning itself in its own complexity. Now if I could just pull myself together and finish the bloody thing :/

[SalmonGod]

So many salty boomers in the comments...

[Baffler]

I feel like I just stepped onto the wharf, but what was the point of that article? It looks like flamey click-bait.

It's what they're arguing about down there for the most part, so I'd also like to point out that I and almost everyone I know (in my age group, born in the 90's) doesn't expect to ever get a single cent out of Social Security. I reckon that Millennials at least have a shot at it.

[Angle]

Aren't we 90's people millenials?

[i2amroy]

The edges are kinda fuzzy (since people being born tends to be a continual process, so you get all kinds of inbetweeners and whatnot) but in general millennials are looked at to be born sometime between the late 1980's and the early 2000's depending on who you ask, which would put the core part of the group being born in the 1990's, yeah.

[Baffler]

I meant the people born in the 60's to the 80's, which is apparently Generation X. My mistake.

[SalmonGod]

I'm on the older end of what could be considered a millennial (born 1983).  But I identify myself as one quite solidly for cultural reasons.  I was an earlier adopter of cultural landmarks like video games and the internet than most my own age, and very much on board with the millennial's rejection of the social and political values of previous generations. 

The one counter-point I do notice is that there seems to be this bubble of hyper-cynical attitude towards media among people within a couple years of my age that those any older or younger don't seem as likely to share.  For example, it's been noted for a long time that my age group is the most difficult to reach and influence by advertisement.

And yeah... the article is nothing more than flame bait.  But I couldn't resist sharing, because it strokes the bitterness in me.  My entire adult life has felt designed and dominated by baby boomers, who basically shit all over my generation and are too self-absorbed to ever have the slightest clue.

[pisskop]

O.o

Millenials seems to be the target of new ads catering to various niches while being kept in a juvenille prepetual conventional state of moral judgement.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's what they're arguing about down there for the most part, so I'd also like to point out that I and almost everyone I know (in my age group, born in the 90's) doesn't expect to ever get a single cent out of Social Security.

If you meet somebody who does, tell them I've got a bridge to sell them.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Millenials seems to be the target of new ads catering to various niches while being kept in a juvenille prepetual conventional state of moral judgement.

It's what corporations view as being able to get them the most amount of money.

[wierd]

Personally, Born 1982.  IIRC, thats somewhere between X and Y. Different sources say different things.

I miss the 80s.  Kids actually played outside.

[itisnotlogical]

Born in 1996, whatever generation that makes me. Advertising doesn't reach me, mostly because I willfully ignore it. I take advertisements as an invitation to go to the bathroom, grab a drink, etc. while I wait for my show/movie/video to come back. Most of my computers have AdBlock installed on them, disabled only on certain websites that I especially like and choose to support that way.

First: Most of these commercials are advertising things that I will never, ever be a customer for. Just a few of the most-frequently-played ads that I've seen lately:

• When will I ever have the money to buy a brand new Nissan? BTW, this is by far the most frequently played ad, appearing at least twice in a row whenever it shows up.
• I already own two Android devices besides a number of other computers, so it's not like I'm going to buy more of those any time soon.
• I'm quite happy with all the bodily cleaning products I use at the moment, so I won't buy... whatever skin product is in the ad that features the really smug lady who's way too close to the camera. I've never seen what that ad is actually pushing, and I wouldn't buy it because I hate that commercial.
• I already have Netflix and Crunchyroll, so there's very little I'd get by buying a Chromecast device.

Second: I've had the concepts of advertising explained to me and viewed lectures on marketing. A lot of them seem to be ignoring the fact that advertisements are interruptions in the middle of something I'd much rather be looking at. They are not welcome surprises or helpful informants, they are the enemy.

Third: These commercials take way too long to get to the point. Youtube (at least in my region) lets you skip ads that are 30 seconds or over, so I never even see what the ad is for because I'm mashing the skip button as soon as it lets me.

[Aklyon]

Personally, my favorite ad of recent note is this one ad that is basically the following: 'Hey we know you don't like long ads, her's an ad for our credit card, bye.' played out in under ~20 seconds.

[Reelya]

Lost, greatest, silent, baby boomer- all somewhat creative.

Then they went 'aaaaah fuck it' and went X, Y, Z

It's just lucky we didn't start with Generation A, or we'd be with the alphabet for about 400 years.

I'm a Gen-X-er.

After "Z", we need to get creative again. But those Generation names are rarely coined during the actual generation. "Greatest Generation" is modern. It was coined by a writer in 1998. The need to label generations before they've even done anything is dumb. No-one in the Great Depression was looking around thinking how that generation was awesome at the time.