i am am a generation jones . i just found out whatt tthat means

[AllaN01Bear]

generation jones were people were born 1956 to 1960. wikipedia article below i was born in 1957. dont remember ww2 or korea or viet nam . didnt goto woodstock and graduated from high school in 1976 wikipedia link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I and my two siblings are also generation Jones

[bullimiami]

2. Me too. We really don't fit with the Boomers.

We’re pretty much The 70s Show.

[wcmagumba]

3. Me too, born in 1957...

I just missed getting a draft card and Viet Nam, thank goodness...too young for Woodstock...

[AllaN01Bear]

12. i was the last lottery number and had to goto azuza ca . they were closed and i was 4fed . :)

[NewHendoLib]

4. My wife and I - 1956 and 57

[Qutzupalotl]

5. 1954-1965 according to Wiki. n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

6. I thought it was anyone born from the late 50s through 1964.

[keep_left]

14. That's what I thought as well. Gen Jones is the tail end...

...of the Boomer generation. There are a number of characteristics that define them: they tend to be more acquisitive, competitive, ambitious, entrepreneurial, etc. The Yuppies of the 1980s are a good example of this (though of course one can only make broad generalizations about large population groups). Generation Jones is also supposedly more conservative than the early Boomers, having grown up during the recession/stagflation of the '70s, deindustrialization/Rust Belt, etc.

[eShirl]

7. I'm more of the vanguard of Generation X

MTV Generation, video arcade games, home computer in my teen years

[maxsolomon]

8. 1963 here.

The Boomer Gen is too broad at 20 years, 45 to 65. Most other Generations are 15 years long. Hence the "Generation Jones" fiction that 56 to 65 is somehow different and sucks less. We don't.

You suck too, Gen X.

[OC375]

9. I'm Gen X

The generation that doesn't care about generations. I'm also both stupid, and contagious.

[darkstar]

10. '57

here as well. But I clearly remember Vietnam Nam. I was a 16 year old male going on 17 before the draft was over.

[tinrobot]

11. 1956-64, actually, and welcome to the club.

I was home watching Saturday morning cartoons when the "boomers" were at Woodstock.

I don't remember The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, either. Devo are my Beatles.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. me too. i still love cartoons .

[Crunchy Frog]

16. When I was little I thought Woodstock was the little bird in the Peanuts cartoons.

I was in my teens when I learned that it had been a music festival.

But I still get classified as a Boomer.

[BluesRunTheGame]

15. I'm Generation IDGAF

Not sure if it’s all of 1958 or just September 1st.

[mentalsolstice]

17. Gen Jones here, born in late 1960

However, I’m married to a true baby boomer, born in 1946, who served in Vietnam. We experienced a lot of the same things, but in different ways. I remember a guy who lived a couple houses down the street being killed there, and all of us kids were told not to play near there out of respect for the family. I guess you could say I was a “Wonder Years” kid.

I can’t believe you didn’t remember Vietnam….what about the assassinations of RFK and MLK?

[Ilsa]

18. GenJones here.

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Not ambitious anymore. My ambition died after about ten years in the work force. I worked for myself for awhile, though. I remember inflation, price freezes, Vietnam, the lottery, dating older vets after the war. I remember JFK assassination, RFK assassination, landing on the moon, Watergate, Chicago riots, lynchings, George Wallace, etc. We watched alot of news and I liked newspapers and magazines, so I was pretty aware of current events.