OPINION: A new sport is beginning to emerge on social media and, I have to say, it's starting to get on my (ever so slightly saggy) ta-tas.

More and more whippersnappers are indulging in an unapologetic frenzy of hating on the Baby Boomers – or Boomers for short.

First, let me be clear. I belong to what's called Generation Jones. It's a (very) special subset of those born at the arse end of the Boomer era – 1962 in my case.

Barack Obama is GenJones, as is Jodi Foster, George Clooney, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Nick Cave and the late Michael Jackson.

Wikipedia says that characteristics assigned to GenJonesers are less optimism, general cynicism and distrust of Government. Yep, that all sounds right to my ears – about as much as horoscopes do.

So strictly speaking, if you take these generational labels at all seriously, I'm rather conveniently not a Boomer.

But I'm close. So very close I can smell it. So close, in fact, that I find myself getting defensive about this new online love of loudly loathing everything Boomer.

So who's doing it?

From what I can gather it's mostly Millennials. As with all of the generations, there are no exact dates as to when the Millennials start and end. Most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.

Which isn't to say that the younger members of Generation X restrain themselves from putting the boot into Boomers. Because they don't. They just do it a bit more articulately. Probably because they're older.

But why are they doing it?

Well, from what I can gather by sifting through the piles and piles of snark, they see the Boomers as the sole cause of everything evil in the universe.

Sure, like every stereotype, there are some germs of truth in there. Younger generations believe that they have inherited a life of housing unaffordability, a costly education versus a free one, an economy that's dire and a planet that's well on the way to total ruin caused by – you guessed it - their parent's excesses.

The consistent theme I see is that the Boomers are a generation perceived as having received more from society than what they've invested.

That's arguable, but it's a huge subject and one I won't attempt to dissect in 800 words.

Much has been written about it, and I've read studies, articles, columns, and all manner of nasty narratives from both sides of the divide. But mainly the younger side.

So why do I feel uncomfortable and annoyed about it?

A couple of things strike me.

One is that the Twitter world I inhabit is made up of predominantly liberal lefties who wouldn't dream of ever making a racist remark. If they did they'd be very publically castigated, and then dropped like a hot potato. End of story.

So it surprises me when I see some of the most sweeping, offensive and ill-informed 140-character anti-Boomer diatribes appear in my timeline. The like-minded quickly jump into the fray and share their deep pain too. Often, there's not a rebuttal in sight.

The Boomers tend to keep their heads down while this cyber bullying is happening. As a result, the malcontents tend to get away with blaming a whole generation of people for everything that appears wrong in their life.

Does this collective whinge actually change anything? Nope.

We live in an age of economic and cultural disparity that will not be fixed by attempting to paint an entire generation as parasitic or lazy in nature.

How can a whole sector of society possibly be held responsible for being born at a particular time and place in history?

Only the arrogance of youth would assert that every single Boomer had it easy. Poverty and unemployment wasn't invented last week. Economic hardship and war have been around the block a time or two as well.

Is your generation going to fix it?

Because that's the question out and proud anti-Boomers need to ask themselves. How can I change things for the better? Your turn to be in the political and power hot seat is fast approaching. Let's see what your generation's made of.

And if you should fail to bring cohesion and world peace? Trust me, there'll be queues of fresh-faced critics lining up to vilify you on the basis of your birth date.

But the biggest error I see is the blatant compartmentalisation of an entire group of diversity into a 'one size fits all' box.

In the end, to my aging and feeble mind, the relevance of such an approach is about as valid as Sagittarius me hating Aquarius you.

And be warned. If you're going to keep spewing forth the nasty anti-Boomer rhetoric, I just might have to come by and wash your mouth out with soap.