Society & Culture Are you a Boomer or Generation Jones?

[Freija]

Born in the first week of 1955, I missed being born 1954 by just a few days. This puts me early in Generation Jones. I find this pretty interesting.

Generation Jones is the generation or demographic cohort sandwiched between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. The term was coined in 1999 by American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who has argued that the term refers to a distinct generation born from 1954 to 1965.

Media coverage of Generation Jones has typically described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell's dates of 1954 to 1965. Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, namely its second half. A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers, using only the 1960s as birth years. Dictionary.com defines Generation Jones as "members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s".

The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness, and, possibly the original slant, the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.

Here's a couple videos explaining the concept and the things neither the Boomers or Gen X have had to deal with. I can relate to a lot of this.

 

[David64]

I was born in 1964, so I guess that makes me Generation Jones.

 

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Huh, I never heard that decade called "Generation Jones". Ha, that would confuse a lot of younger folk. What generation are you? I'm a post boomer. Oh, you're GenX.

I guess that's why Freija is the CEO of Citadel 81.