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born in 81 i am on the fault line between the Xers and Gen Wuss. I have to agree whole heartedly with this authors perception of reality for 24-35yr old adults. I have no social media accounts what so ever and will not be guilted into participating. When i tell people my age i dont have a facebook account or instagram or twitter or any of it, I get looked at like a leper! It rolls off the back for sure, but it would be nice if people valued face to face interaction. Things always go full circle right?
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J4, there is much truth in that. I keep cell phone use to a minimum. The film "surrogate" got close to your point. It was much better than "Avatar"Originally posted by j4f2h0 View PostComment
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from the VF article:
,And then you have to look at the generation that raised them, that coddled them in praise—gold medals for everyone, four stars for just showing up—and tried to shield them from the dark side of life
This is still going on. And psychologists are concerned about it. Scores of creativity are drooping, anxiety is increasing. I think it's a real problem, mainly confined to the US and UK.Comment
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Generation Wuss, great name. As a father with two teenagers I can tell you this is true. A lot of the kids are unbelievably sensitive to even the slightest input or criticism. Suicides are common. Just "Dissing" someone can lead them to come to school with a gun or knife. And the need for validation from social media! Kids will pour their hearts out online to anyone who will listen, hoping from some feedback from a total stranger to make them feel better about themselves. They take dozens of "selfies" a day. Its ridiculous yet they can't see how narcissistic and insecure it makes them look. Its sad really.Comment
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What makes boomers hate the millenials so much? Personally, I find it hilarious that the most narcissistic generation in the history of the republic would have the stones to call anyone a narcissist, but such is the nature of narcissism. A terminal case, doctor.Originally posted by flintlock View Post
All I know for sure is we geezers best keep our long term care insurance up to date as this next generation will be changing our diapers and wiping the spittle off our chins soon, so very soon.
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Boomers don't hate millenials. The problem with the kids is their schools felt their "self esteem" was being damaged by competition, so they the school cut out 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, etc. and gave Everyone a gold medal. The parents went along with this.
There was now no value to a job, sports event, social event striving for excellence.
Thank your local teachers union and spineless parents that went along.
Remember the millenials are the boomer's grandkids! The boomers love them; they just don't respect what they've become.
SAT ( and whatever they call it now) scores have not be higher since the boomers finished high school. Something is amiss in the educational system.Comment
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tbh, i think the hatred for social media is a bit overdone sometimes. Now, I have a facebook, mainly so i can stay connected with high school friends and their lives. I have a twitter as well, but i use it mainly to follow different people in the financial industry. Not sure if youtube counts, but i have a youtube account as well, mainly for following like twitter. I really think social media is fine, and its not the main problem with the generation today. Social media is just a tool, a tool which can be used to do a lot of good, and to get access to information. Everything in moderation
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There in lies the pickle "Everything in Moderation." When have you experienced moderation to be the default human tendency? With the exception of a few percentages of people we are programmed to overdue everything until we figure out it is bad and even then a lot of people continue! Social media in my experience allows people to always choose the easier route. Instead of taking a risk and talking to the person next to me, ill just text some friends and look up BS on FB. The most profound social risk younger people take on the whole these days is clicking a like button on a potentially edgy FB post! Gone are the days when you could easily strike up a conversation with a random person next you at lunch, dinner or anywhere. The only place i have continued success talking with people on the fly, is when we are all stuck in the crammed post office line in South Boulder! IN that moment i seem to connect with people and be able to talk about how absurd the post office is!
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CDC data on suicides by age doesn't agree. In fact, it's specifically white American 40-somethings and over 65s that push the data over the edge. Here it is broken out by race:Originally posted by flintlock View Post
And it's not like school shootings are new in America either. It's just the news reports not just on shootings, but on almost shootings, potential shootings, threats of shootings, would-be shootings, and everything else now.
Kids I interact with every day are 11 and 14. Little dude likes to skateboard and bike and shoot paintball/airsoft and hang out with neighborhood friends and yeah, play x-box. Between that and school and sometimes building models and whatnot, that's about it. Older girl has to deal with school, jv volleyball, part time job, piano, school clubs, time with friends, and gets very little time free after that. We're in a pretty dense area, so they can walk/bike to all this stuff for the most part. Maybe that makes the difference compared to a more sprawl-y place where there might not be as many people/activities around to fill time. If anything, I see maybe too much activity going on. But definitely not a lot of time for BS-ing on social media, even though they have phones with snapchat and instagram and all that stuff. Whenever social media causes trouble, it usually revolves around drama from someone they know offline anyways.
I just don't see them as too different. But whatever. Older folks despising differences in younger folk is nothing new either. Probably the oldest story man ever told was some Jeremiad about "those damn kids!"
It's just a little bit funny to see it from the "Turn on, tune in, drop out" generation. "Don't trust anyone over 30," man. Groovy. Keep on truckin'.
In fact, wasn't there some song about all this from back then?
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You're batting 400 on the tunes today, dc. Here's another cut from "Harvest" as iTulip's Super Sounds of the 70's just keeps on... truckin'.
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