Meanings
- historicalThe Noughties generation of Web-savvy youngsters who conducted a significant proportion of their socialising via Internet media such as instant messaging clients and social networking sites.
2 more examples
2007: “Steve Firth”, uk.business.agriculture (Google group): Top Gear, the 27ᵗʰ day of February at 10:36pm > who he was showing off, there was nobody about, so I clicked a few buttons, a tiny camera on the laptop caught me in action… Eerie. It’s a fairly standard part of laptops aimed at the Web aware. The Apple laptops have a similar feature, it seems to be a must-have for the MSN generation.
2008: “freek123456@googlemail.com”, “alt.drugs.hard (Google group): Is this true?”, the 19ᵗʰ day of October at 2:34pm Dont think that language capabilities going to hell is a US matter only in the UK also in the NL kids age 13–14, called the MSN generation, write on a way whom requires a translator their age. For example i saw the words from a girl who wanted to write down ‘i have a gorgeous bf he is 16 and i love him and will see him next weekend’ the result was ‘iam has a gawjess bf hes 16 lof him wil cee him neks wiekent.'
Origin
From MSN (“a popular contemporary instant messaging client”) + generation, on the pattern of MTV generation etc.
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MSN generation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MSN%20generation
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