Interesting Information About the Different Generations

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I am a retired Business Professor. For 17 years I taught Business Administration, Management, Marketing, Communications, Ethics, and Human Resources. Many of those subjects have tangential relationships with understanding and knowing how to deal with people born in different generations. I used to teach about the Generational differences. A post by eM @eLsMarie reminded me about the generational differences and I knew there was a new one since I retired, so I decided to do some research and update my data and give you all a "mini-lesson." First, the generations aren't divided by a certain number of specific years. They vary. They run a period of years where the babies born during that period would have similar life experiences and values. TRADITIONALISTS are the oldest generation, those born before 1946. They would all be 78 years old or older. They were very conservative and frugal and patriotic. BABY BOOMERS are still the largest generation born between 1946-1964 making them between 61 and 78 years old. They aren't tech-savvy though 90% of them are on Facebook. They don't like change. The prefer face-to-face communications. GEN X is the smallest generation, born between 1965-1980. There were 65 million born during those years. They are now 45-60 years old. This generation had the highest percentage of divorced parents of all the generations, they were the "latchkey kids." They are moderately tech-savvy,. GEN Y a/k/a MILLENIALS were 72.1 million born between 1981-1996 making them 44-59 years old. GEN Z were born between 1997 and 2012, some 68 million of them. They are the first generation to embrace social media. They do most things online. They mostly do streaming tv as opposed to cable tv. GEN A a/k/a GEN ALPHA were born from 2012-now, so far 48 million of them, aged infant to 13. They're being raised in technology with smart phones, house devices like Alexa, etc. They are tech babies. They were the ones to attend virtual school during a national pandemic and are being taught social justice in school.. There's so much more I could say but that would make for a very long post and I promised this would be a mini-lesson. Which generation are you? What do you think defines your generation?