Gender Reveal Party

GaryM said:
Doesn't this forum count as social media? I don't use Facebook, Twitter, and the like, but I've always considered the couple of hobby forums in which I participate to be small-scale social media sites.
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People posting "I don't use any social media" on social media sites seems to be pretty common these days. Then comes the update, "I don't participate in any social media except for the social media I participate in."

Nauga,
and his antisocial media
 
I never really considered forums to be social media. Always looked at social media where you have much more individuality and the focus is you, you, you, you. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram etc. Most / all (?) forums don't have a feed that chronicles the life of an individual poster.
 
EdFred said:
I never really considered forums to be social media. Always looked at social media where you have much more individuality and the focus is you, you, you, you. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram etc. Most / all (?) forums don't have a feed that chronicles the life of an individual poster.
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Poster or Poser
 
David Megginson said:
The oldest millennials are into their 40s now and have kids in university, so it might be time to pick a different generation as a punch line.

Everyone's an idiot in their late teens and early 20s (or at least, I was, as one of the last of the baby boomers, and I really hope it wasn't just me).
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The funny part, most of them didn't figure out they were millennials until sometime between 2005 and 2010. There are millennials who didn't figure out their generation name until they were 30. Even then, the earliest references to "millennials" was about children born 2000 and after. Gen Y co-opted the name from them.
 
bflynn said:
The funny part, most of them didn't figure out they were millennials until sometime between 2005 and 2010. There are millennials who didn't figure out their generation name until they were 30. Even then, the earliest references to "millennials" was about children born 2000 and after. Gen Y co-opted the name from them.
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I still don't know which generation is which, except that I know I'm one of those detested boomers.
 
bflynn said:
The funny part, most of them didn't figure out they were millennials until sometime between 2005 and 2010. There are millennials who didn't figure out their generation name until they were 30. Even then, the earliest references to "millennials" was about children born 2000 and after. Gen Y co-opted the name from them.
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Pretty much. I remember I learned about it from my boss at work. He had gone to one of those management seminar things, and apparently I was a "millennial". No effing idea what he was talking about. I'm ten years into my career at that point. I told him he can save all the BS they were supposed to do to deal with Millennials for someone else.
 
bflynn said:
The funny part, most of them didn't figure out they were millennials until sometime between 2005 and 2010. There are millennials who didn't figure out their generation name until they were 30. Even then, the earliest references to "millennials" was about children born 2000 and after. Gen Y co-opted the name from them.
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To be fair, they weren't "millennials" any more than I'm a "baby boomer" or my spouse is a "gen x'er". They're labels that marketing and advertising people invent to oversimplify their jobs and impress gullible clients.

I just squeaked into the baby boom (by a few weeks), and was in Kindergarten when the Beatles broke up. Convincing advertising clients that people my age have the same taste and preferences as someone born 15 years earlier who experienced the 1960s as a teenager is little short of fraud. And the same applies to all other generation labels as well. They're just lazy. (Except maybe the Second World War generation; I think we can let them keep the "Greatest Generation" label. :) ).
 
KiloBravo75 said:
I learned about it from my boss at work. He had gone to one of those management seminar things
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Yea. That's where I learned that I had to have my kids help me use the computer because they grew up with the technology and understood it better.
I managed to not ask which generation invented that technology...
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
Yea. That's where I learned that I had to have my kids help me use the computer because they grew up with the technology and understood it better.
I managed to not ask which generation invented that technology...
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There are exceptions of course, but no one ever had to explain to my kids how to use an iPad. Sure, part of that is how intuitive they are, but also primacy. My mom is from the generation that invented computers, but still hasn't figured out the apple watch she wears everyday.

I'm sure COBOL will make another comeback though. :D
 
Everskyward said:
I still don't know which generation is which, except that I know I'm one of those detested boomers.
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My son was born in 2000 and was a millennial for the first 5 years of his life, until they redefined it to the Gen Y group and suddenly he wasn't.

They don't know either, there's no agreement about the time frame. Some say it ends in '96, some '00, some go earlier or later. I'll go with "if you want to be a millennial, then you are." Similar with the early time frame.
 
bflynn said:
My son was born in 2000 and was a millennial for the first 5 years of his life, until they redefined it to the Gen Y group and suddenly he wasn't.

They don't know either, there's no agreement about the time frame. Some say it ends in '96, some '00, some go earlier or later. I'll go with "if you want to be a millennial, then you are." Similar with the early time frame.
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Wasn’t “Who Wants To Be A Millenial” a game show?
 
Everskyward said:
I still don't know which generation is which, except that I know I'm one of those detested boomers.
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As long as you internalize and profusely apologize for being at fault for everything, that's ok.

Got it......
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
https://www.freelancinggig.com/blog/2021/01/07/why-are-cobol-programmers-still-needed/
"About $3 trillion in daily commerce is transacted through COBOL systems. 80% of in-person banking transactions and 95% of ATM swipes rely on COBOL code. A 2018 Social Security Administration report found that the agency was maintaining over 60 million lines of COBOL."
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I find the claims regarding scale dubious, but I don't doubt it's still out there. It just won't be in a very short few years.
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
https://www.freelancinggig.com/blog/2021/01/07/why-are-cobol-programmers-still-needed/
"About $3 trillion in daily commerce is transacted through COBOL systems. 80% of in-person banking transactions and 95% of ATM swipes rely on COBOL code. A 2018 Social Security Administration report found that the agency was maintaining over 60 million lines of COBOL."
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I read a quote a number of years ago that went “I don’t what the language that issues pay to the crew of the Starship Enterprise will look like, but it will be called COBOL.”
 
Lindberg said:
I find the claims regarding scale dubious, but I don't doubt it's still out there. It just won't be in a very short few years.
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I suspect you underestimate 1) the value/inertia of systems that work-which include a great deal of encoded knowledge that is not fully understood, 2) the inertia of Government contracting (not contractors). I just retired from a company that is still maintaining and updating some 12+ million lines of Ada code over three applications. As a user you’d have no idea that the engine is Ada, but it is.
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
Yea. That's where I learned that I had to have my kids help me use the computer because they grew up with the technology and understood it better.
I managed to not ask which generation invented that technology...
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:) It's tough on kids growing up in an IT household. My kids (now in their 20s) never even tried to be the experts — they were just happy they could play Tux Racer on the family Linux computer.

In the other direction, my mom (80-ish) called me recently to mention she was having intermittent home network problems. I got ready to go into remote troubleshooting mode, but it turned out she'd already bought a CAT5 cable so that she could hook her laptop directly to the cable modem, bypassing the router, to test upstream, and had isolated her WiFi router as the problem. She's not an IT person (retired lay minister), but has been on the Internet for a quarter century, so she has most of the basics down pat.
 
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Lindberg said:
I find the claims regarding scale dubious, but I don't doubt it's still out there. It just won't be in a very short few years.
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Apparently state unemployment insurance systems are still highly dependent on it.
 
I 'reveal my gender' all the time in pics, available upon request. or sometimes when not requested.
 
eman1200 said:
I 'reveal my gender' all the time in pics, available upon request. or sometimes when not requested.
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I'm not sure, because I'm pretty clueless about this stuff now, but apparently what I think is in your "gender reveal" pictures doesn't mean squat about gender. Figure that one out.
 
eman1200 said:
I 'reveal my gender' all the time in pics, available upon request. or sometimes when not requested.
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seriously, all you have to do is ask. and maybe not even ask.
 
Tell you what... why don't you put off the "Gender Reveal Party" for about a decade, since we're all being told gender has nothing to do with biology. Right?

I'm looking forward to the lawsuits from these unborn who had a gender foisted upon them in the womb, where they should be safe from everyone other than the mother who may want to kill them, and were damaged by the color of the decorations at some stupid party.
 
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