Gen Y begins in    Gen Y definitely begins in  A previous author was right when she mentioned that people born in that era  are pretty in between the same way people born in the early s are between the classic generation X and the classic baby boom  I think there is a difference between early Generation Yers  and late Generation Yers  but I dont think people born after about  or  can be included in Generation Y Part of being Gen Y is being a child of a baby boomer My parents were born in  and I was born in  The baby boomers are a pretty unified generation and even my parents consider themselves to be part of a different generation than people born in the s My parents are children of the s Watergate era and came of age as adults during the late s and early s yuppiedisco era Meanwhile someone born in  remembers the conformity of the s and was in high school as opposed to grade school during the JFK assassination and could have been drafted for Vietnam They were old enough to take part in the antiwar protests or go to Woodstock After about  the boomers were children of the s while before they were children of the s  The same distinction exists between early and late Y Early Y is a transitional group between Generation X and Generation Y and their comingofage was characterized by alot of change PCs etc Also their parents included more Vietnam vets and protestors and hippies while most people my age have parents whose adolescent preoccupations were disco and Led Zeppelintype rock Watergate and the oil crisis  I really dont think most people in Gen X would be too comfortable with people who were little kids in the s being in their generation Being an adolescent in the s is a Generation X requirement