Do you like the year you were born in?

I'm born in 2000 and I actually kinda like when I was born. I always use this to my advantage to distance myself from people younger or older then me depending on the situation. I don't really wish i was born any other time tbh, however it would have been nice to be born a few years earlier and then I could have been alive in the 90s, I mean technically I was but that doesn't really count lol .

However, if I was to pick another year to be born in I think I would definitely pick 1980. This way I get to be a 80s kid, 90s teen, and late 90s/early 2000s old teenager/uni student. That would've been awesome to experience but oh well not everyone got to be born in 1980.

No offence to people born after me, but I certainly don't wish I was born any later. Too many years later, and I wouldnt really know much of a world without excessive technology use, people constantly on their phones etc. Tbh this has been occurring ever since like the 80s, but I'm glad I got to experience the early/mid 2000s before everything really started to change. Even kids born just a few years after me had quite I different childhood by my observations. Getting my dumb phone and iPod touch at 12 years old, is a lot different to getting an iPad when you were 5.

Haha. I have a friend who does the exact same thing (he was born in May 2000).

I wouldn't either, to be honest. I know i'm generalising here, but I feel as though people around our age were the last to experience their childhood without excess technology usage. We can both remember a time before Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and with the exception of the iPhone in the Late 2000s (although, they were too expensive for most people), smartphones simply weren't around.

Imo that's fine that you think your core childhood was age 4-8, however just remember your still in your childhood now. In a few years time when your a teenager and adult, that might change because people change and you'll probably look back at your 9 year old self and remember your childhood from then

In a way, I like the fact that I was born in 1999, because I was born in my favourite decade for pop culture. However, with being born in 1999, I wasn't able to properly experience the '90s at all, which is something that I dislike about it. :/

No, not at all. The 90s were great. I’d hate to have being much younger growing up in the technology-obsessed era of the mid to late 2000s with smart phones everywhere, social media etc etc. I mean, yes technology was present in the mid to late 90s of course but not to this degree and there was no Facebook, Twitter taking up everyone’s attention. Plus the news cycle wasn’t really 24/7 like it is now due to these platforms. You also didn’t get given a phone by your parents when you were like 9-10 years of age (or younger). I never got my first phone until I was well into High School lol. 😋

90s nostalgia right here with this song by Hanson:

Yes and yes. People are far too reliant on technology these days. I’d seriously fear what the younger generation (I feel old saying that 😛) would do if Facebook went completely offline. There was a joke going around years ago that they’d be wandering around aimlessly writing on actual walls. This is so true! 😜

I also prefer the 90s as that’s where the classic Australian children’s TV cartoons/game shows etc were at. Examples being ‘Download’, ‘Y?’, ‘Wipeout’, ‘A*mazing’, ‘Pick Your Face’ amongst others. There’s nothing these days which is a shame. 😞

Yeah, I did edit that part to reflect that. Was there but not as bad as the late-2000s. MySpace was shit anyways and it died fairly quickly with the masses once FB came along.

Yep, I was around that age when I got my first phone too. Parents now give them to their kids far too early IMO.

Hanson were freaking huge back in the late 90s. But I never said I liked Hanson. 😜 Just brings back so many memories of much better times haha.