In what decade were you a teenager?

[nerodog]

In another post someone suggested that most Tuggers were teenagers in the 1950's. The purpose of this poll is to determine when most Tuggers were teenagers.

If you became a teenager at the end of a decade--such as someone who turned 13 in 1959--count the decade in which you had the most teenage years. So, a 13-year old in 1959 would have been a teenager for more years in the 1960's than the 1950's.

Here are the decades:

30's
40's
50's
60's
70's
80's
90's

1970 's !!!

 

[Karen G]

1970 's !!!

From the graph it looks like the 1970's are winning.

 

[clifffaith]

Lynn, my husband and I were the same timing as you, began high school in 1969 and graduated 1972. I guess we had the best of both decades?

Ditto. Graduated 1973.

 

[nerodog]

It was great being a kid in the 60s...even being a preteen and being exposed to great timeless music, peace, love and just an interesting time in history!!

 

[ScottRW]

1990's .... and it was a great time.

 

[jimf41]

Regardless of what the poll says the 60's had the best music.

 

[HitchHiker71]

I was a teenager from 1984-1991 - so a mix of the 80's and the 90's. On top of being widely known as the Gen Xer's, we're also the Nomad generation. There are four generational archetypes that follow a pattern - Prophet, Hero, Nomad, Artist. And almost always in that order.

 

[tropical1]

1970’s

 

[shorep]

Turned into teenage years 1958 left school in 1961,sex,drugs and rock and roll, all I got was rock and roll, army, and hard work, then marriage and kids, when does the fun start, there a system for a claim to higher authority?????

 

[Jodyv]

Graduated from high school in 1968. Agree with Jim Freeman. Best music ever. Kasey Kasem was the dj at our local recreation center dances. We were pretty lucky!!

 

[jmhpsu93]

Proud Gen-X'er with teenage years in the 1980s.

That's a nice normal-looking distribution we got going there, bell curve and all!

 

[pedro47]

Are today's youth still refer to as teenagers? LOL.

 

[joestein]

Are today's youth still refer to as teenagers? LOL.

now they are "lazy and spoiled" teenagers.

 

[pedro47]

now they are "lazy and spoiled" teenagers.

Right, with a cellphone in their hands 24/7.

 

[TravelTime]

Funny that every older generation thinks the current generation is lazy and spoiled. There are many historians and sociologists who have written about the Me generation, the Baby Boomers, as the most entitled generation. Based on my parents, I would tend to agree.

 

[joestein]

Funny that every older generation thinks the current generation is lazy and spoiled. There are many historians and sociologists who have written about the Me generation, the Baby Boomers, as the most entitled generation. Based on my parents, I would tend to agree.

Baby boomers.... the greediest generation whose lust for money and power knew no bounds. So much for peace and love.

 

[Mongoose]

Regardless of what the poll says the 60's had the best music.

LOL, Being a genXer I like the 60's, 70's and 80's. But the current music..... "Geeze these kids these days and what they listen to..."

 

[Mongoose]

Baby boomers.... the greediest generation whose lust for money and power knew no bounds. So much for peace and love.

I'm not sure that is true and there are certainly no absolutes. I am also not a fan of generalizations. Every generation suffers from the same flaws in human nature. I do think that our culture follows a pattern were cultural aspects like greed, work ethic, honesty, etc. ebbs and flows. My personal opinion is if a generation grows up with adversity and they work to overcome it, they then (generalization here don't beat me up) tend to spoil their kids and that generation might not have the same work ethic, resulting in the cycle of adversity, prosperity, decline, adversity.

 

[jamacson]

I was a teenager during the 1980's, back when Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson dominated the music charts.

 

[jp10558]

Teenager in the 90s. Man was everything optimistic in the mid to latter part of it too. I was never very wild - basically a nerd doing Star Trek, reading, D&D, anime, and TV shows in general. We live rural - in many ways we were 20+ years behind my classmates in school even though they were very slightly less rural (I mean a village of like 1,000 people and a class of like 78). We still only had OTA 4 channels of which one was PBS. We had rotary phones (cause why replace what's working) and party lines (till the phone company made them drop it and the savings in like 2002?), we had 33 and 45 records and cassettes - no CDs either. VHS tapes. I got into reading books cause of that - didn't have multiple TVs, the one TV was a 12" B&W my dad apparently bought used in like 1979 or something till in 1993 when we finally got a 19" COLOR TV, but still only B&W for "my TV".

Though I was way more techie too, maybe from Star Trek fantasies? I pushed and pushed and got my parents to finally get me a Sega Genesis in 95, and an actual IBM computer. 2 years later I convinced them to get "the Internet" via dial-up. We had the Internet before we got rid of the party line lol. That was fun let me tell you. I feel in some ways my family kind of went from the mid 70s right to the late 90s in tech and culture. I was into search engines and MP3s pre Google.

I do feel like a bit of a codger ahead of his time when so many things are "I was into xx before it was cool", but maybe everyone feels that way as they age.

Music wise I have to say - growing up it was all 60s folk and rock and roll. I got into some Aerosmith through some friends and then hit on Nickelback in 99, still like them to today (FIGHT ME). I also "grew up" with Brittany Spears and the boy bands around the turn of the millennium. I never really got into rap at all, though that seems to have been slowly "taking over pop music" since 2001 or so that I've noticed. Although now Pandora is trying to tell me my Nickelback channel should really add some sort of Country to the mix, which is... weird. Though I like Country too, it's a completely different vibe IMHO.

IDK, I've stayed pretty similar since I was a teen, stayed single, strongly rejected additional responsibilities (Kids etc), and mostly just hang out with existing family members (who are more than enough to keep me busy) and co-workers etc. Probably not the typical time-sharer, but I also recently got back into photography, and so want to travel a lot for that, and making it easy / required to go places helps IMHO. Also, now I even work from home mostly, so just going different places after 3 years of COVID is real nice.

 

[joybuzzer]

Teenager in the 90s. Man was everything optimistic in the mid to latter part of it too. I was never very wild - basically a nerd doing Star Trek, reading, D&D, anime, and TV shows in general. We live rural - in many ways we were 20+ years behind my classmates in school even though they were very slightly less rural (I mean a village of like 1,000 people and a class of like 78). We still only had OTA 4 channels of which one was PBS. We had rotary phones (cause why replace what's working) and party lines (till the phone company made them drop it and the savings in like 2002?), we had 33 and 45 records and cassettes - no CDs either. VHS tapes. I got into reading books cause of that - didn't have multiple TVs, the one TV was a 12" B&W my dad apparently bought used in like 1979 or something till in 1993 when we finally got a 19" COLOR TV, but still only B&W for "my TV".

Though I was way more techie too, maybe from Star Trek fantasies? I pushed and pushed and got my parents to finally get me a Sega Genesis in 95, and an actual IBM computer. 2 years later I convinced them to get "the Internet" via dial-up. We had the Internet before we got rid of the party line lol. That was fun let me tell you. I feel in some ways my family kind of went from the mid 70s right to the late 90s in tech and culture. I was into search engines and MP3s pre Google.

I do feel like a bit of a codger ahead of his time when so many things are "I was into xx before it was cool", but maybe everyone feels that way as they age.

Music wise I have to say - growing up it was all 60s folk and rock and roll. I got into some Aerosmith through some friends and then hit on Nickelback in 99, still like them to today (FIGHT ME). I also "grew up" with Brittany Spears and the boy bands around the turn of the millennium. I never really got into rap at all, though that seems to have been slowly "taking over pop music" since 2001 or so that I've noticed. Although now Pandora is trying to tell me my Nickelback channel should really add some sort of Country to the mix, which is... weird. Though I like Country too, it's a completely different vibe IMHO.

This sounds like many people on Imgur and Reddit and me! Long live the 90's!! IMHO the best decade since the 1920's

 

[regatta333]

1970s

 

[simpsontruckdriver]

I was a teen between 1985 - 1992 (graduated 1991).

TS

 

[peepelow]

Looks like i am the youngest one here

 

[tujoseph]

2000's