1. A chart on the web proves that the annual birthrate REALLY started to dramatically increase in ’77. The chart showed about 3.3 million babies born that year and 3.14m in ’76 (a difference of 160,000).
2. Those born between ’77 and ’95 either just entered this world or just came of age when the web first became available to the public in ’95 (hence the “Net Generation,” or Millenials).
3. Studies have shown that those born in the late ’70s have very similar attitudes to those born in the ’80s (the former also voted 66 – 32 for Obama).

Now, however, I do not believe in using dates to define the Millenial Generation. Anyone can be Gen Y if he or she is tech – savvy, open – minded to diversity of all kinds, and likes the latest in pop culture. I was born in 1979 and all these characteristics describe me, so that makes me a Millenial. I feel this way because there are just some people who do not fit into the generation to which they were assigned. I say, “live and let live,” and allow everyone to choose whichever generation they want to belong to – one that best matches their characteristics.