Love the blog! David, clearly you’ve been misinformed about the importance of the term millennial. The fact is that this particular generation marks a turning point in human socialization. With so many forms of social media available now, even this blog! lol….. I think what Blake is getting at is if there is any generation worth studying it is certainly this one. And I’m shocked so many people aren’t aware of this! Keep doin what youre doin girl and I’ll be sure to check in often!

You’re welcome. I’m always willing to share my not-always so humble opinion.

I have a few non-millineal related questions:

1. Have you ever thought about writing an e-book about millineals and/or millineals in the work place?

2. Do your wordpress stats update in real time? I have yet to have a single visitor to my wordpress blog, which is surprising because I would think that someone would click through on either my name or my most recent post.

Thanks for another great comment on my post! I agree that it will be a very interesting shift when Millennials are no longer the most technologically proficient people at work. Will our generation cease to be as important as we are right now? Should be an interesting shift.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks for your comment. I hope you weren’t offended that I decided to write about you, and I’m glad you found my blog!

You are probably right that Gen-Y is the more accepted term for our generation. The reason that I chose to use the world “millennial” instead of “Gen-Y’ is because to me “Gen-Y” doesn’t mean anything other than “the generation that came after Gen-X.” I think people are starting to use the word Millennial more often, and that we will soon see a shift from one to the other.

While my most recent post did focus mainly on the terminology used to describe our generation, I think my entire blog spends a great deal of time focusing more on the characteristics, struggles and accomplishments of our generation. All of these things are obviously more important that the actual name we go by, and I’ll try and focus more on those in the future.

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Why is it a crummy term? It doesn’t make sense. We are millennials because we came of age in the Millennium? Boomers were called boomers because they were part of the baby boom after the soldiers came back from WW2. It had nothing to do with when they came of age. Following the boomer convention, why aren’t kids born in 2001-2009, the millennials? Gen X is a stupid name for groups as well.

Also millennial redirects to Generation Y on Wikipedia, which implies Gen Y is the more prevalent term. I’m guessing if you took a survey of the “millennial” demographic, 90+% would have no idea that they were millennial. It’s not a logical choice for our demographic. Obviously, Blake you’ve got a different opinion because you named your blog “Perennial Millennial”. But I’d proud to say that prior to our conversation, I had no idea what a millennial was. It’s a non-intuitive phrase and I don’t like it.