The number of years since your birth doesn’t necessarily reflect your true age. Consider the options — chronological age versus emotional age or physical age. A 30-year-old couch potato may be “older” than a 50-year-old fitness buff; a mature 10-year old may be “older” than an emotionally bankrupt 40-year-old. We have labels to define age groups — Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, Gen-Yers — but not of all us fit neatly into one category.

Penelope Trunk, author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, in conjunction with researcher Margaret Weigel, developed a test to help people determine their “real” age — at least in terms of where they fit according to standard definitions of Baby Boomer, etc.

Take the test and figure out where you fit. 

Do you have your own web page? (1 point)

Have you made a web page for someone else? (2 points)

Do you IM your friends? (1 point)

Do you text your friends? (2 points)

Do you watch videos on YouTube? (1 point)

Do you remix video files from the Internet?  (2 points)

Have you paid for and downloaded music from the Internet? (1 point)

Do you know where to download free (illegal) music from the Internet? (2 points)

Do you blog for professional reasons?  (1 point)

Do you blog as a way to keep an online diary? (2 points)

Have you visited MySpace at least five times? (1 point)

Do you communicate with friends on Facebook? (2 points)

Do you use email to communicate with your parents? (1 point)

Did you text to communicate with your parents? (2 points)

Do you take photos with your phone? (1 point)

Do you share your photos from your phone with your friends? (2 points)

TALLY YOUR POINTS

0-1 point – Baby Boomer (born between 1946 and 1964)

2-6  points – Generation Jones (a BB subcategory; born between 1954 and 1965)

6- 12 points – Generation X (born between 1964 and 1980)

12 or over – Generation Y (born between 1978 and 2000)

 - Lisa Matte, Editor-in-chief