Who Made Who?

BABY BOOMERS, 1946-1964. Generation "X", 1965-1980. Millenials, 1980-2000. Whatever are we gonna call those born after the turn of the century, which, in point of fact, began in 2001, not 2000? It turns out that there are more millenials (80 million) in America than baby boomers (76 million). That seems surprising, considering that for years all we have heard is how many boomers there are, and how the birth rate has been declining ever since. Millenials are being given credit for all manner of innovation, from social media to gay marriage. What exactly, is "social media"? Is it nothing other than communication on the internet by large groups of people, as in Facebook and Twitter? The term "media" always meant newspapers, radio, and television; now it seems to mean the internet, facebook, and twitter. But whatever happened to chatrooms? They were in vogue by the middle nineteen nineties, when millenials were teenagers. Surely the baby boomers invented something! Most people might say that the boomers invented rock n roll; problem is, most boomers weren't yet born when Elvis, Jerry Lee, Fats, and Bill Hailey made it big in '55. Strange to think that the World War Two generation, which tended to despise rock music, invented it. Hint; the millenials, who are now in the throes of early adulthood, and include Mark Zuckerberg, did not actually invent social media, they merely magnified it enormously. Most inventions were with us much earlier than we give them credit.