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Born in 1967 (a week from this Friday), I'm more of a boomer. Really don't fit with GenX.

That's interesting, might be an environmental or regional thing as well.  My older brother was born in '66 and is every bit as GenX as I am.

Supposedly the cutoff was 64 = Boomer, 65 = GenX. 

But I think on the margins it's always a bit tricky. 

It's one of the reasons that they came up with the name "Xennial" for folks like me, born in '78. The big difference for our group is that we were analog childhood; digital adulthood. Meaning that we basically grew up without prevalent internet and cellphones for most of our childhood. But we were raised with computers and "came of age" during the internet boom, such that we were already primed to adjust to that societal change by the time we actually hit adulthood.

Contrast that with "pure" GenX, who largely didn't experience the internet until they were already adults, or "pure" Millennials, who were surrounded by cellphones and the internet essentially starting in their preteens and so never truly lived in a world without it. 

I'd absolutely expect anyone between maybe 1962 and 1967 to be on the cutoff, and some are older but identify more with GenX, and some are younger but identify more with Boomers. 

I’m smack from the middle of the 70’s, checking in at 1975. I think I more closely identify as a Xennial, even though they say I’m too old. 

Your generational ID isn’t just about what year you were born , it’s a shared experience that people from that era had. Things like playing Oregon Trail in school, learning computers on the Apple II, staying out late until the street light came on. I remember where I was when Kurt Cobain killed himself, I remember when Challenger blew up. I remember when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were talking about something called the information super highway. 

I don’t remember watergate, or gas embargoes, or bell bottoms. I remember everybody smoking indoors. 

ELA and GR are of similar age, I think. I want to say @ELA  started college (at IU) in 2003, as AAA, and that @GopherRock  graduated from Mini in 2006 and went to work out in Seattle.

Joined in 2003, started college in 2002, born in 1984.  MichiFan87 was the youngest regular poster for a while, but not sure he ever made the move to this board

Too young to remember Woodstock,old enough to remember Reagan as President.

Aka. 1964-1980

Heard he voted against 3 of the 4

He was unimpressed.

It's similar to the way we perceive "decades" culturally. What we think of as the "50s" was more like 55-64. The "60s" was more like 65-74, and the "70s" bled over into the early 80s but I'd argue that the perceived culture of the 70s ended a little sooner due to the more unified, national cultural influence of cable TV, especially MTV.  Culturally the 80s started pretty clearly just after MTV debuted in 1981.

Vanilla Ice was so 1990 that even 1991 was rolling its eyes.