Maybe it is me, but there seems to be many different groupings and names for the different generations in our society today. I was reading an article about a recent Harris Poll that used this generation grouping:<\/p>\n
Matures (those ages 62 and over)
\nBaby Boomers (those ages 43 to 61)
\nGen Xers (ages 31 to 42)
\nEcho Boomers (ages 18 to 30) <\/p><\/blockquote>\nI am not familiar with “Echo Boomers” terminology – I always thought that generation was referred to as Generation Y. “Matures” is a new one for me too. Wouldn’t it be nice if somehow we could get some ANSI-like standard on what the generational names are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maybe it is me, but there seems to be many different groupings and names for the different generations in our society today. I was reading an article about a recent Harris Poll that used this generation grouping: Matures (those ages 62 and over) Baby Boomers (those ages 43 to 61) Gen Xers (ages 31 to 42) Echo Boomers (ages 18 to 30) I am not familiar with “Echo Boomers” terminology – I always thought that generation was referred to as Generation Y. “Matures” is a new one for me too. Wouldn’t it be nice if somehow we could get some ANSI-like standard on what the generational names are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-9E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/marketing-to-baby-boomers\/","url_meta":{"origin":598,"position":0},"title":"Marketing to Baby-Boomers","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's continue with the marketing-themed Tuesday posts. 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