Who are 'Geriatric Millennials'? Those born in the early 80s | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Who are millennials? Who are Gen-Z? Who are baby boomers? These names are attached to people who have been born in the past decades.
But the division and the period of each group have been clearly defined now. Baby boomers are those born between 1846-1964, Generation X are those born between 1965-1980, and Millennials are those born between 1981-1996.
But now, early Millenials, those born between 1980 and 1985, have been given a new moniker. A new subgroup has been named 'geriatric millennials.
The new group name was mentioned in an article titled 'Why the Hybrid Workforce of the Future Depends on the 'Geriatric Millennial' by Medium.
The article analyses and discussed how people aged between 36 and 41 are comfortable using technology despite the fact they are not so savvy with devices like the younger millennials.'
The article says that geriatric millennials are comfortable with both analog and digital forms of communication as they were the first generation to witness a transformation and grow up with a PC.
The writer goes on to add that the group is a bridge between other generations because of their knowledge of old technology and new.
"The first time I heard 'Geriatric Millennial' I thought it was an oxymoron. Sarcastic, even. But as I thought more deeply about it, I realised how perfectly it describes so many of us,” Erica Dhawan, the author of the article, wrote for Medium.
"Geriatric Millennials are a special microgeneration born in the early 1980s that are comfortable with both analog and digital forms of communication. They were the first generation to grow up with technology like a PC in their homes," it adds.
However, the name of the group has not gone down too well with many social media users. Some were actually outraged to discover they were being considered as geriatrics in the late 30s or early 40s.
Meena Harris, the niece of US Vice-President Kamala Harris, tweeted, "I reject and denonce the term geriatric millennial."
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