Baby Boomer's, Busters, X'ers, Next'ers, & Millennials
This is about the media and stereotyping:
First, nobody was ever called a "Baby Boomer" until the mid to late 70's. "Baby Boom" itself started as a joke by some comedian back in the 50's, a play on the word "boom", used to describe a sudden rise economic prosperity, who said everyone knew what the "boys and girls" we're doing after WWII, because of the baby "boom." Everybody laughed, tee-hee! But it wasn't until the 70's, when these so-called "Baby Boomer's" were about 30 years old, when some female TV journalist on a national broadcast, got all excited because she had discovered this new word: "Baby Boomer!" - to describe those born after WWII.
After that, media types played a little game to come up with new names for those born later, hence, "Baby Buster"' "Gen X"er" etc. then sociologists picked up on the game so they could study the "characteristics" of the various generations, and so business people could study their buying habits.
So, this whole thing is a recent development, and the terms are mostly heard in the media. No generation of human beings we're ever named like this before, and this is only happening here, in the USA, although some foreign journalists have picked up on the "fun", too. But in social media, they been mostly used to attack and dis people of the various ones. And this is because they have become stereotypes. So, I've seen thing like, "Oh, I don't care what some dumb Baby Boomer thinks" or "What do Millenials know about anything?" Etc.
There's nothing we can do about this, but people need to be aware of it: not all "Baby Boomer's" are the same, and neither are all "Millenials", and nobody likes to be pigeon-holed like that!
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and feel I relate to the Boomers. I think having a brother who is 8 yrs older, and my sis (RIP) was 16 yrs older, influenced that. My sis was born at the front, and I was born at the tail end. Funny how we are all different with our cohort 
