Never give up. I'm old. Do you know how easy it would be for me to sit back and say I quit. Chances are I won't live long enough for it to get really bad. Reality is it's not about me. I'm a patriot. I was raised to salute the flag, that pledge of allegiance I made actually means something and that the united States of America is the greatest country on the planet. To sit back and let it fall goes against everything I believe in. My sweet little granddaughter at 10 years old is truly the most innocent loving person I have known in my lifetime. She is so inherently good she doesn't see evil in anyone or anything. She can and will find good in every situation. I cannot/will not let them destroy her and the other innocents like her. I will do whatever is necessary to take my country back! Stand up! Make the commitment! If our fore father's had given up we wouldn't have a country. NEVER back down. You are a patriot!
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I'm a millenial on the older side (38), and I can tell you that the "internet" was a thing in the early and mid 2000s but it wasn't the end all be all of everything. Facebook was formed in 2004 and it wasn't a behemoth then for example. MySpace was "big", but big back then just meant a few million people, not hundreds of millions (twitter) or billions (facebook) of people connected through a social media platform like it is today.
I don't think this situation is a binary between growing up not knowing what a computer is and being a social media butterfly. Hell laptops and smartphones didn't even really become "good" until about 2007 or so, I'd probably draw the line there as the point where kids growing up with that sort of tech might not know what its like to just turn off their "toys" and go outside and play. These artificial "generation" demarcations aren't useful when nobody can agree upon what the hard date is.
If I had to wager a guess, people born after 1994 will have a difficult time breaking their social media conditioning. My 2 cents anyways.
If you are 38, you are a Gen X ;)
I was born in '78 and by middle school we were learning about "the world wide web" and by middle high school my friends and I were all hooked on AOL chatrooms.
I'm fine with either label and I've been labeled both depending on who is setting the timeline.
I think its more than just an age thing though. A lot of it is regional and comes down to technological adoption and access to the best technology. Those barriers were essentially gone by the mid 2000s
Born in 91 and I agree with most of what you said. However, perhaps it's who and where I grew up, the vast majority of my friends my age and younger don't have much social media. You know what, that's probably self selecting now that I think about it.