Generation Y has been lumped together with millennials, (as eggheadedly defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. As information technology and Internet connectivity may have easily established a cohort of sorts among Internet users, Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.

Generation Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (which could be considered the predecessors to social media) into the digital age of today; even as most Generation X members lacked the responsiveness or the interest to immediately adopt the connective facilities offered by the Internet.
Millennials are for GenerationZ's. Leave Generation Y alone.
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An adult born in the decade of 90’ to 2000
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Of importance to millennials or something that happens because of a highly digital life.
It was so millennious when one of my blog readers invited me on a picnic.
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Millennials are people born after gen X and before Gen Z there not as annoying as people from Gen Z but there still pussys
Jacob: Hey Kyle your a idiot
Kyle: (Starts crying)
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A millennial is a person born from the years 1982 and 2004. Millennials are generally considered to be self-absorbed and spoiled, and even if the spoiling is not their fault, they still get blamed for being shallow.
Those millennials and their manbuns and their hip-hop, and their instagrams!!!
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The generation of people born from the early 80's to the early 2000's. Also known as the best generation ever. Many people like to criticize them for being entitled and lazy, but millennials have more education than any previous generation which disproves the laziness claim. There is no strict definition for when the generation starts and ends, but people start it as early as the mid-70's and end it as late as the early 2000's. Common characteristics of millennials include their use of technology and prevalence on social media as well as a vast amount of student debt. Yay for the millennials!
I was born in 1996. That makes me a millennial.
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Generation of americans born before the turn of the century, who are quite possibly the weakest generation of people any nation has ever produced. These people are completely ignorant to reality, and fail to accept anybody who thinks differently than they do, yet they claim to be the most tolerant generation. Identifiable by their Subaru forester hatchbacks littered with Bernie 2016 stickers, and their ignorance when it comes to politics. These are the same people seen marching in the streets yelling expletives about Donald Trump, and his supporters during their "peaceful" protests. Their inability to cope with a Trump presidency is due to the fact that they are used to receiving participation trophies, and have been shielded from opinions that differ from theirs.
Person1: Did you see all those millennials in the streets spitting at Trump supporters

Person2: yeah, those millennials really need to to wake up to reality.
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