Technology writer The wheel of time turns and another new generation has been handed a catchy headline ready moniker. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. We’ve had baby boomers, millennials, Gen Z and now entering the fray is Generation Alpha.
But who exactly fits into this category - and how can you work out which generation you belong to? Advertisement Advertisement It can be quite confusing to keep track of all the different generational cohorts, so we’ve broken down who is a Gen Alpha and what the rest of us might be. Here’s all you need to know: Generation Alpha. Is it a bird, is it a post 9-11 blockbuster war film or is it a baby born sometime after the early 2010s.
If you picked answer number three, well done - you win...
nothing. But you did get the correct answer. The latest moniker for a collection of humans born between an arbitrary set of dates, Generation Alpha (or Gen Alpha for short) is coming in hot as the demographic cohort succeeding Gen Z.
Like all the prior generations, there is no exact fixed date for when it starts but the current consensus is that if a child was born after the early 2010s (so in 2012/ 2013 onwards) they will fit into this grouping. Advertisement Advertisement So if you had a baby during the pandemic, it will be a Gen Alpha and not some awful portmanteau of generation and Covid. According to the good folks over at Wikipedia, some people.