"Generation Jones" Plus a Lotta Likes
- Feb 25
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
(Language warning: The video I commented on uses potty-mouth)
Hi Friends and fellow Generation Jones:
I hope you all are happy, healthy and utterly pain-free?
I've been off the internet social grid for a while. Seems if one stays away from all things SM it stays away from you too? Meaning no comments, no likes, no interaction.
This "Generation Jones Plus a Lotta Likes" blog is being written because, inspite of going dark on SM, likes and comments from a particular Instagram post I made a loong time ago keep flowing in (1,050 currently) .
I'm not a "like" or "comment" receiving queen to begin with. A handful or two come my way once in a while. The End.
However, the comment I made 19 weeks ago struck a cord with fellow Gen Jones and Gen Xs.
What the heck is a Generation Jones? Glad you asked.
Answer: "Late Boomers (often called "Generation Jones," born apx. 1954-1965 and early Generation X (born early-to-mid 1960s) share significant cultural, professional, and life-stage similiarities creating a blurred "cusp" between the generations." -Courtesy of AI
I'm a Gen Jones that identifies very much with gen X.
We are indeed a tough, do-it-yourself, suck it up generation. As the comment (below) says, we learned to drive stick shifts without back-up cameras or warning alarms (many of us never had a lerner permits!).
--Sidestory: At 12-years-old, I backed the neighbors giant station wagon out of their driveway and we took it for a drive with children in the back. Well, we were children too but the kids in the back were reeeally children. (Hi, Adrienne! Remember that??)
No supervision, no boundaries, no helmets...literally.
A couple weeks ago we asked someone to start a manual car we keep in Florida to make sure the battery was charged before we arrived.
We received a message saying: "The good news is the battery wasn't dead. The bad news is I had an accident inside of your garage. "The person who started the car released the clutch with the car in first gear causing it to lurch forward into a bike and wall. Terrifying (thank God she wasn't hurt)!
Being off the social grid is kinda nice but it's also nice staying connected through Gen Jones and Gen X. We're a generation force likely to never be replicated. Still tough and always shaking our heads at how things are done these days...
Thank you for reading!
Love, Shelley
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