Comments on: 2009: The Year of the Total Reboot http://www.boomercafe.com/2009/01/02/2009-the-year-of-the-total-reboot/ The online magazine for baby boomers with active lifestyles Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DerRen http://www.boomercafe.com/2009/01/02/2009-the-year-of-the-total-reboot/#comment-2182 DerRen Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:38:01 +0000 http://www.boomercafe.com/?p=1650#comment-2182 Cuspers is the term which is most often used to describe those of us who are in-between Generation X and Generation Y. Admittedly, those who on in-between, or on the cusp, of all generations are called Cuspers, but the term is mainly used for those on the cusp of GenX/GenY. Cuspers is the term which is most often used to describe those of us who are in-between Generation X and Generation Y. Admittedly, those who on in-between, or on the cusp, of all generations are called Cuspers, but the term is mainly used for those on the cusp of GenX/GenY.

]]> By: WhyNotNow http://www.boomercafe.com/2009/01/02/2009-the-year-of-the-total-reboot/#comment-2115 WhyNotNow Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:46:11 +0000 http://www.boomercafe.com/?p=1650#comment-2115 I was born in 1962 and never felt like a Bomer or an Xer, so I've been glad that our lost generation finally has a name. But not "cuspers"! Ecch. After all these years of being denied a collective name, the last thing we should get is name that defines us by our neighbors, ie. we should be defined by who we are, not who we aren't. Moot point, since cuspers has never caught on at all, while Generation Jones has already established itself as very popular with a national following. I'm proud of our generation and of the name that emerged for us: Generation Jones. Google cuspers and you'll see that virtually nobody uses that term for the generation between the Boomers and Xers. Cuspers was proposed as a name for this generation 10 years ago when Boomers and Xers were the two dominant generations, but it never caught on at all, and anyway, doesn't even make sense at this point, since now people between GenX and GenY, and those born between GenY and GenZ, are called cuspers. By contrast, google the term Generation Jones, and you'll see that it's gained a big national following...it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from numerous top publications and networks (New York Times, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) are specifically referring to Obama, born in 1961, as part of Generation Jones. I was born in 1962 and never felt like a Bomer or an Xer, so I’ve been glad that our lost generation finally has a name. But not “cuspers”! Ecch. After all these years of being denied a collective name, the last thing we should get is name that defines us by our neighbors, ie. we should be defined by who we are, not who we aren’t.

Moot point, since cuspers has never caught on at all, while Generation Jones has already established itself as very popular with a national following. I’m proud of our generation and of the name that emerged for us: Generation Jones.

Google cuspers and you’ll see that virtually nobody uses that term for the generation between the Boomers and Xers. Cuspers was proposed as a name for this generation 10 years ago when Boomers and Xers were the two dominant generations, but it never caught on at all, and anyway, doesn’t even make sense at this point, since now people between GenX and GenY, and those born between GenY and GenZ, are called cuspers.

By contrast, google the term Generation Jones, and you’ll see that it’s gained a big national following…it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from numerous top publications and networks (New York Times, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) are specifically referring to Obama, born in 1961, as part of Generation Jones.

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