Neither Generation X nor Generation Y: New study on the "best" generation - the "analog-digital" xenials!

While most sociologists agree that those born between 1980 and 2000 belong to the so-called Generation Y (aka millennials), a professor of sociology at the University of Melbourne says this is not true.

According to his theory, those born between 1977-1983 belong to the micro-generation, whose members are called Xennials, because they have the characteristics of Generation X (born between 1960 and 1980) and Generation Y ( the years 1980-2000), Telegrafi reports.

"There is a gap between Generation X, whose members are often described as depressed in their shirts, and Generation Y who are optimistic, who are addicted to technology and who are overconfident," Professor Dan Woodman tells Daily Maayil.

Xenials grew up in a time when hanging out with friends, communicating via landline, newspapers and televisions were the main sources of news. When it comes to technology, Woodman says that this micro-generation has a unique experience in technology, has fond memories of childhood and does not worry about how many "likes" their publications will receive on Facebook or Instagram.

In the twenties, the Xenia faced the expansionist advance of technology.

"The technological revolution hit us before we had children and learned new things. The new technology caught us in the period when we were still able to absorb it. We learned to consume new media and matured before Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat appeared," he says.

In an article in the Huffington Post, Anna Garvey - an expert on social networks and web marketing - also described xenalia.

"We spent our formative years without the toxic influence of social networks. "MySpace started in 2003, and Facebook in 2006. If you were born in 1981 or 1982, you belong to the last generation that graduated without social networks," she says, Telegrafi reports.

Garvey adds that her generation, like sod's generations, often engaged in inappropriate behavior and gossip in their youth, but unlike millennials, they didn't think about whether any of it would end up on social media or whether their parents would see it. .

"Unlike Generation X, we were young and ignorant enough to jump on Facebook and MySpace right away and, like millennials, we know what it means to hang out on the web or follow someone we like. in social networks"; she says.

We must remind you that the xenials are the "analog-digital" generation that first discovered the magic of sharing and receiving multimedia content from the Internet, but who remember the time when they bought audio-cassettes or when they recorded songs from the radio. /Telegraph/