Talk:Generation Jones

message: I’ve heard this cohort between the Boomers and X’ers referred to as Generation Jones many times, but never as Tweeners. Out of curiosity, I just spent some time researching this today, and found that my experience with this is matched by the research. The term Generation Jones has been used many hundreds (maybe thousands?) of times across a large number of major media outlets, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Associated Press, NBC, CNN, etc. Many notable individuals have used this term Generation Jones as well, including numerous major business, political, and entertainment figures. Moreover, many online dictionaries include the term Generation Jones to describe this cohort between Boom and X. 
By contrast, the term “Tweeners” has hardly ever been used for this cohort. There are a few usages in very minor media publications, like small blogs, but no serious usage anywhere that I could find: in the media, among prominent individuals, or anywhere else. Many online dictionaries include the word “Tweener” but not with this meaning. Instead, they define Tweener to mean other things, like young people between childhood and adolescence, players who are in between two different positions in a sport, people who feel in between two different cultures, etc. None of these Tweener definitions in dictionaries, with one minor exception, make any reference to Boomers/X’ers. Even the website tweeners.org doesn’t define it that way. And looking back over the many years of contributions to this Generation Jones Wikipedia articles, I couldn’t find anybody, except Scarpy now, who has ever suggested that the term “Tweener” should be used as a synonym for Generation Jones.
Scarpy, I assume you come from a place of good faith, and care about accuracy in Wikipedia articles. From what I’ve seen of your contributions to Wikipedia, you seem like a serious contributor who has made numerous helpful and accurate edits. If you believe I’m wrong vis-a-vis my above research, please cite references in this Talk section that would back up the idea that “Tweener” has been used as a synonym for Generation Jones enough in the public to warrant that positioning in this Wiki article.  Otherwise, I respectfully submit to you that it should not be included in this article. It’s not accurate to use it here, and it creates confusion in relation to the ways that the term Tweener is actually used.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CultureMaven2000 (talk • contribs) 22:59, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tweener is not a term which has any significant usage as a synonym for Generation Jones 

message: This thing includes very specific opinions for this cohort generation, all attributed to Pontell. E.g. Trump’s statements about Biden’s age, that is not a generational opinion. His views are not dispositive even if he coined the term. It’s a dumb one, I was born in 1964 and have only heard the term “Jones” rarely and that was on tv, and never used it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sychonic (talk • contribs) 15:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too Pontell Centric, other voices needed 

message: Cusp years of Generation X and Baby Boomers - Generation Jones - Get off my lawn, it's better than yours! 2603:7000:B901:8500:F117:BC30:9BDE:FBC7 (talk) 15:29, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Tail-end baby boomers had different experiences from middle-of-the-bulge baby boomers -- they were in elementary school or junior high during the 1960s etc. etc. AnonMoos (talk) 07:28, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Your bulge is exaggerated, only 10 million of these baby boomers were born bettween 1940 and 1950. Most of the earnings of people having babies were in the years of 1979 to 1990. The birth numbers were slightly lower but there wasn't a ten year gap of babies being born like in the boomers case - exaggerated numbers. https://www.infoplease.com/us/population/live-births-and-birth-rates-year 2603:7000:B901:8500:845C:77C2:E3C0:C58F (talk) 01:08, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Generation Jones was sort-of seen as a compromise to moving early '60s births to Generation X.  A sub-Generation was created to connect them to those born in the late '50s which they likely have things in common with.  Either way Generation Jones is a sub-Generation and not a Generation of it's own.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1002:B00A:CD93:71AA:8F9D:1307:F3C3 (talk) 05:39, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generation Jones is still baby boomer.