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If you find yourself frowning upon something someone younger is doing, that most likely means one of two things: you’re either too old to understand what the current youth is up to—as most of us probably are—or you’re simply a grumpy person in general, which is an entirely different matter.
If you belong to the former category, find comfort in the fact that you are far from the only one baffled by all sorts of youngster trends. Be it a new hairstyle every other male under insert a certain age here is walking around with or activities teenagers are taking part in, it might not be easy to identify with a generation that grew up in an entirely different world. But we should probably at least try to understand them, no matter how confusing it all is. (Goodness knows, we’ve gone through a phase of trends our parents found odd, too.)
If you’re curious about what are some of the things young people do that absolutely baffle those older than them, scroll down to find netizens' answers to an ‘Ask Reddit’ thread on the matter started by u/Fyre-Bringer to find out.
If you scroll down, you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science, Dr. Deborah Carr, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions regarding generational differences.
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#1
Just fully watching videos in public with no headphones. Where are your headphones? I don’t want to hear your TikTok clips.
William Plummer 1 year ago
I'm "younger generation" and I don't understand this.
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RaisedByCats 1 year ago
I've always found that it is older people (I am a boomer for the record) who listen to things with the sound on and never mute their notifications
TheElderNom 1 year ago
My experience is that it s spread across ages with the peaks at small children overseen by people in their thirties and people who are 60+.
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Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
A common annoyance during train rides. I was so confused when I first became aware of it after going everywhere by car for years, but it's not the lack of consideration for others - that has always been around - but rather the attitude like it's perfectly normal, and anybody who gets annoyed by it is somehow crazy. A friend said it's just a different generation, but I see a possible connection to phones not having headphone jacks anymore. People might simply not want to bother or don't know how to connect wireless headphones.
Nadia Egypt 1 year ago
Ah, thank you. Now we know why my husband's nee phone came without headphones. Please don't suggest anything as complicated as wireless headphones or Bluetooth, even getting him to consider headphones was a battle. 🤣
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athornedrose 1 year ago
it's hilarious to me that this is in the "younger generations" section because, in my experience, this is anyone under 24 or over 58.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
This happened in my cardiologist's office recently, and the culprits were an elderly woman sharing a "screaming Karen" video with her middle aged daughter (who treated the entire waiting room to the full performance).
I just work here 1 year ago
Don't act like this is just younger people! I see people of allll ages. It is so rude.
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#2
Gen X here. I don't understand the eyelash thing where they're so long and fluffy that you look like Snuffleupagus. I also don't understand the nails that are so long you can't function. Like, how do you wipe?
Cooking Panda 1 year ago
For me it's the brows. Some people draw ridiculous brows so thick they look like someone stuck duct tapes on their forehead
My O My 1 year ago
As someone who was a teen in the early 2000s it's even more ridiculous
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Fussy1 1 year ago
I honestly can't tell sometimes if the person with the half inch eye lashes is stoned or if they just look that way because they can't open their eyes all the way from the weight of the lashes?
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
GenX here. As long as those eyelashes aren't smacking me in the head, not my business.
Mira Simpson 1 year ago
Right. Lotta judgey people here. And my natural nails are quite long & I manage just fine 🙂
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Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
The long nails have been around for decades, but the lashes…yike. O I don’t know how they do anything with those nails.
E.V. 1 year ago
Oh no, not like today's long nails! Dip, acrylic, etc. And for some reason they really like them super long and pointy!
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Why are people so obsessed with other people's wiping habits? How is it any of your business? I'm sure when you were younger you made some pretty terrible fashion choices that you cringe at now.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I'm with ya on the nail thing. Then again, I was asking the same question 20 years ago when I saw women walking around with 3 inch claws on their fingers, especially when I saw ones that were disgustingly discolored and with suspicious looking crud underneath. Like, how? Why? Not just wiping, but any bodily function - how? I feel sorry for their sex partner, that's for sure.
#3
Not knowing how to use punctuation. The lack of punctuation drives me nuts. I shouldn’t have to read something 50 times because you don’t know how to place a period or a comma when needed.
Mister E 1 year ago
Some people enjoy cooking, their families, and their pets. Some people enjoy cooking their families and their pets.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Are they the same people who help their Uncle Jack, off his horse or their uncle jack off his horse?
Load More Replies... Bexxxx 1 year ago
I was trying to sign up for volunteering at a local community program, but the guy in charge sent me a VERY LONG message saying “oh hi yes we are happy to let you join can you send us your contact info we think you would be a great fit we should meet soon and talk I have lots to do this week is Thursday a good day to meet please let me know we would love to talk we have lots of events we are very busy this summer do you have a driver’s license I will send you an overview of the program”……..it was probably 1000 words long and I was struggling so hard to read it that I just gave up. Didn’t end up joining the program solely because of his message. I didn’t think that sounded very professional or trustworthy at all.
Load More Replies... Otto Katz 1 year ago
Learn how to make paragraphs. I hate reading screeds on reddit with 1,000 words, and no paragraph break. I'm much more likely to read your essay if you learn how to write one.
Charity Angel 1 year ago
BP take note - paragraphs are things and we would like to be able to use them.
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CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I'm too ADHD to follow your run-on sentence. I love reading, but if I have to interpret it, I'm out
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Right? Like how hard is it to use a comma or period? I actually notice myself talking to people like that in much simpler language than I normally use, because I’m worried that if I use big words and proper grammar, I might confuse them. I genuinely question the intelligence of people who can’t be bothered/don’t know how to make sure I can understand their message and won’t have to read it 2-3 times to understand it. Like do they not realize most people don’t type like that? Because it’s difficult to understand?!
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Karen B 1 year ago
In Denmark we had some shifts in punctuation when I was in around 4th grade. Was thaught the old rules, then new punctuation (it didn't work), and then back to the old rules again. It was about 2 years and really f'ed my grammar skills.
Daniel Marsh 1 year ago
How fanatical do politicians have to be to say, "you know what? Let's just rewrite the f*****g language." I mean, OK... standardization is one thing... teaching everyone the same spellings and grammar rules to provide clarity. But just making up your own new grammar?
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
And I am one of those who insist on correcting the errors. Every time. Sue me.
Lame Llama 1 year ago
In English, it is wrong to start a sentence with "and".
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cheryl strickland 1 year ago
We boomers are the ones who allow the Republicans to cut school funding so badly our teachers qualify for food stamps. They don't even get basic supplies for their students.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
LOL! We Brits call them 'full stop's. Because the sentence ... stops. The word period was used as a name for what printers often called the "full point", so I suppose that's why some (or just one?) places call a 'full stop' a 'period'.
Discussing the topic of generational differences, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science Dr. Deborah Carr told Bored Panda that every generation tends to critique “the youth of today”, implying that the way they did things as young people is superior to what young people are doing nowadays.
“During periods of very rapid change, those generational gaps are the largest,” she noted. “If two generations were raised in very different social or economic consequences, the attitudinal gaps will be the largest.
“For instance, we have witnessed tremendous advances in recent years with respects to the rights and visibility of LGBTQIA persons – younger people are thus much more accepting than past generations. It’s important to recognize that generations can educate one another and help to expand each other’s horizons, and that education can go up and down the generational ladder.”
#4
Assaulting people as a prank.
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
Rubbish, this is as old as humanity and used to be worse. The only difference is it's recorded now for anyone to see, whereas you used to have to be present
BoredPossum 1 year ago
If you did this back in the day, the only one applauding you was the village idiot. Now, thanks to social media gives you thousands of village idiots that applaude you.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
The only people who enjoy pranks are the pranksters, and a majority of peeps hate pranksters. In my mind, it's just another noun for 'bully'. "it was just a joke, chilllll" 🙄😑
Jack Burton 1 year ago
I'd say it has ever existed, bad pranks, stupid pranks, dangerous pranks. I mean you can saw it cause it's shared on internet now. But growing up in the 80's i remember A LOT of bad pranks or "initiation" rituals turned bad.
Ace 1 year ago
TBF almost anything as a prank, especially if it's on a stranger. But yeah, physical on mental assault is completely unacceptable.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Schrodingers douchbag - a person who waits to see what reaction they get before declaring that they were joking.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
Double call out for jackasses who smash cake into their bride's face during the wedding reception
Morgan Hamilton 1 year ago
Back when I was engaged in the 90s, I told him if he did that then the divorce papers would be signed before the reception was over.
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PFD 1 year ago
Yes, awful; but is it so common and so new, or is that an artifact of the virality of such videos combined with recency illusion? Hazing and other abusive "pranks" are old as the hills. And there have been stupid pranking crazes too - remember the thing with slapping strangers after that Orange Man Tango ad in 1991? I don't know how common that really was but it's a comparable phenomenon and similar level of media noise over it.
Kar Red Roses 1 year ago
Rampant here in NYC. People are unpredictable since the pandemic. Gotta have your head on a swivel.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Assault is a crime. They'll learn when the police come knocking at the door.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
Many won't call the police. And the police don't show up for everyone.
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Grammar. I'm not even talking about missing commas and s**t I just want them to know the difference between "you're" and "your"
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago (edited)
should of / should have - would of / would have etc ..... but thats not only for youngsters
Roland Nijveld 1 year ago
As a non native, I can't understand this. It doesn't even sound as "of"
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TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Ahh English. I love when my fellow English speakers say they don't understand how others have trouble learning it. Let me show you the book of Homophones.
Charity Angel 1 year ago
I have said it before, and I will doubtless say it many more times - English is a ridiculous, contrary language, with ridiculous "rules", and I have great respect for anyone who learns it as a second language.
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Anya Beboop 1 year ago
Grammar is reasonable, but getting words mixed up is a common trait of dyslexia. It can be improved with specialized therapy.
Remi Flynne 1 year ago
Yep, dyslexic people have problems with expression, grammar, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, sequencing and getting started with writing in the first place! A lot of these things that people are criticising others for? Dyslexia. 1 in 10 people may have a form from mild to profound. I understand the irritation. Used to get to me too. Then I married someone with dyslexia and have 3 or 4 friends with it. Your and You're - even the least dyslexic person I know will slip up at times with that one.
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Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
Common mistakes. Can you understand what's being communicated? Good. Then calm down.
According to Prof. Carr, some of the reasons why older people find certain youngster trends or habits difficult to understand are based on the fact that said people are unfamiliar with them, the trends conflict with their personal values, or they don’t see any value in them.
“For instance, older people may judge younger people for spending money on expensive coffees, clothing, or computer gadgets because they view it as wasteful. However, it’s important to remember that young people today often are strapped with educational debt, health care bills and other factors that are eroding their savings. The occasional luxury purchase can be a short-term way to exert autonomy and personal choice.”
#6
Making every single phone call via speakerphone, especially when holding the phone directly next to the side of their head because they can’t hear.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I hate anyone who does this. I don't care about your conversation. I don't want to hear it.
William Teach 1 year ago
Unless I am at home, I can't really hear on speakerphone. I'd rather use an earpiece
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Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
I am old and I do this. I don’t ever take calls where they would disturb others unless it is an emergency.
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Patrick Linnen 1 year ago
This one I would blame on cell phone makers cheaping out on the speakers. The sound quality was neglected because the manufacturers decided that everyone could just listen using physically jacked in headphones. Then they started skipping the physical headphone connection part to 'save space' and never went back to fix the speaker quality.
Tim Douglass 1 year ago
To be fair, it's devilishly hard to make a speaker sound good when it's only 1mm thick and 5mm in diameter.
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Lori 1 year ago
I frequently have people call while they have me on speaker phone and it's nearly impossible to hear them because they seem to think it also makes them louder. They also have the audacity to get mad at me for doing my job (asking security questions) while they are out in public with speak phone on.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Oh i'm in for this one, i mean why ?? Just why would you that in public areas, you'll have to put the phone close to your head anyway...
Alecto76 1 year ago
I had to sit next to a teen girl on the public bus tonight doing this. Based upon the conversation, she really wanted attention.
Bobbi McGough Robert 1 year ago
It's fun to reply to them as if they were talking to you! LOL
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Bobbi McGough Robert 1 year ago
Not me. But I do reply to them, regardless of who they're speaking with!
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I depends on your situation. I do this because I am hard of hearing. But I'm retired and live out in the country in a rural area. I'm not much of a phone user. So when I am around other people, it is very unlikely that someone will call me. And I'm certainly not going to call someone.
#7
Literally commiting crimes as part of social media trends. Especially the "licking ice cream at the store and putting it back" challenge, that's a straight up health code violation.
AisForRebel 1 year ago
That's more of a "the f is wrong with you" smack alongside the head thing.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Fortunately/unfortunately, smacking the uncivilised youngsters around the ear went out decades ago. The law is available for dealing with these social media "pranksters". https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/24/man-court-tiktok-videos-people-entering-london-homes
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
I have a friend that is an ice-cram maker in my oldtown. He his also a rugby player. I don't recommand to any tiktoker to try this in his shop ^^
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Some idiot did that in my small town and found her a$$ in jail real fast.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
That's prob why many places have acrylic screens. A lot of what's going on lately is a hella WTF. I think another (major) no-no, is that it should be illegal to take photos of strangers without their permission. Main reason being: What if they had to change their name and move due to hiding from an abuser??? Suddenly, your photo pops up on SM .... yep, definitely should be fine-worthy at the very least.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I think that if they can link someone getting sick because of this, then it should be tried as attempted murder. That might stop people. And not others...
#8
For a generation that loves social media, we are very anti-social. Lots of us cannot hold conversations or try to avoid them entirely. Another thing is how terrible literacy is amongst this generation while also loving social media. Cell phones have caused pure brain rot as people cannot function without them at all which baffles me. My parents didn’t buy me a phone until I was a sophomore in high school and it drove me nuts when people asked me how to do this or that without thinking prior to use common sense and figure it out. Critical thinking hit a massive decline from what I have noticed as well. Hope this comment isn’t harsh but being a part of one of the young generations I’m frustrated and annoyed. Please enlighten me if I am just wrong about any of this.
Alexandra 1 year ago
Our son told me that in his first year at uni, many students had difficulty reading articles, not only because they lacked the attention span for reading more than, say, 20 minutes at a time, but also because they had to look up (if they were smart) many words they were not acquainted with. Words that you usually pick up when you read a book or a paper. Not to brag, but sometimes I'm amazed that younger people's vocabulary is so limited. It makes for misunderstandings, because due to this limited vocabulary, they are not able to express themselves clearly.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
There is a direct link between the two. "Social media" should be called "anti-social media" because it polarises and amplifies way more than a natural human setting would. We are more likely to seek consensus and be polite when face to face with someone.
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
I help people with tech a lot and I have found that my common sense is different than others. Something that you could easily work out may as well be Mt Everest to others.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Everything OP said is 100% correct. That's another thing that seems to be on the decline - the knowledge that the truth can be harsh, but that doesn't make it a personal attack. I'm old enough to remember the frequent argument at the beginning of the social media age, that it's actually "bringing people together." Even then I saw the flaw in that logic, as, how can people be together when we're all typing away at each other from own our locations? Yeah, we can find common communities online, but we're still physically alone.
Papa 1 year ago
I agree with this one. People often ask a question on a forum about the software I use at work that I don't know the answer to, but with just a few minutes of trial and error I figure it out. There's no reason the person asking the question couldn't have done the same thing instead of asking strangers online and waiting for an answer.
Juanita Sullivan 1 year ago
I hear you loud and clear. The level of ignorance is sad. So few read books, (real books) or know how to do much of anything outside of using that cellphone. Don't know how to cook so they spend money eating out and then complain about prices are too high. Common sense is becoming a thing of the past sadly. The older generations might be made fun of which is rude in itself, but we know how to survive hard times, save money, speak to other people and make sense and are aware of the past such as the times of The Great Depression and WWII. It's sad and scary to think that the days of real conversations about many things are fast coming to an end.
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
I have heard college students say that COVID destroyed the college environment and it is SO hard to make connections and friends anymore. The kids who are going into college now spent half of high-school in lockdown. They don't value social networks the same.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Nobody spent “half” of high school locked down. Lockdowns began March 2020 and practically all had ended a year later.
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Robin Evans 1 year ago
oh. my. god. the TERRIBLE grammar and vocabulary of my generation continues to relentlessly confuse me. i might just be a stuck-up gifted kid but OH MY GOD. LEARN COMMAS. there's WORDS to inflect tone, you don't have to use "/s" or "/hj" or whatever. i understand those things in a social media setting where you only get so many characters, but like. DUDE. and yes, i'm aware i'm typing in all lowercase which is wrong, but at least i KNOW it is and i don't write like that in my notes and on papers and stuff like that.
“Older adults also may have difficulty understanding actions or behaviors that were less common when they were young,” Dr. Carr added. “For instance, very casual dress, large tattoos and multiple piercings are more common and socially accepted today, yet it could be a difficult pill to swallow for older adults who were raised to present themselves more formally – especially at work.”
#9
Creating GoFundMe pages for cosmetic surgery and/or procedures.
Daniel Marsh 1 year ago
What we dreamt of: "With only $2,000, I can go to Africa to combat malaria for six months!" What we got: "Only $6,000 more, and I get a butt impants!"
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
I find it sad when I come across GoFundMe for real medical issues cuz their Govt don't give the people' free' (paid by taxes) healthcare. The others, wow! Anyone gifting money for cosmetic surgery have more money than sense, imo.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
And so many Americans firmly believe most Canadians come here because they have to wait years & and argue for the right to pay. SMFH
Load More Replies... George Costanza 1 year ago
Hey, kudos to them for getting other idiots to pay for their unnecessary surgeries. I'd say the idiots donating to their GoFundMe's are the real problem here.
bas moelard 1 year ago
It's that because mom and dad are reasonable enough, not to pay for it?
René Sauer 1 year ago
wasn´t there also a GoFundMe once with the sole goal of making one of the trash-dashians the youngest (or was it first?) female billionaire?
IORN 1 year ago
Not a problem, really. They can ask all they want. Whoever chooses to donate... after all it's their money, their choice.
L 1 year ago
yep, I'm much more surprised that there are people who donate rather than that there are people who ask.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 1 year ago
But does that mean you own five dollars worth of Jessica's new accoutrements?
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Darth Kittius 1 year ago
My younger cousin just graduated from high school and made a GoFundMe because his dream is to visit Japan. So far he's made $35 out of the $5000 he's asking for
#10
Not being taught to tell time by where the hands are on a clock.
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago
Why do you let yourself get mad about something that doesn't affect you at all?
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The Doom Song 1 year ago
I learnt on a clock with no numbers just the hands. I actually don't look at the numbers on a clock just where the hands are. People think it's a super power
Charity Angel 1 year ago
The clock in my living room doesn't have any numbers - just four quadrants. My parents' kitchen clock is made from a bicycle wheel - no numbers at all, and not even helpfully split up like mine is. (Must change the battery in mine, actually.... You've reminded me)
Load More Replies... CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
Honestly, I'm bad at this. I can do it, it just takes more time than I'd like to admit...
K. LNU 1 year ago
I knew a young soldier (US Army) who didn't know what "counterclockwise" was.
Charity Angel 1 year ago
You know, it had not occurred to me, for some reason, that the term "clockwise" would start to lose its meaning as analogue clocks die out. I don't even know what to do with that as a concept.
Load More Replies... Jaymi Leigh 1 year ago
Where is this happening? All of my grade 2 students and my own 2 children know how to tell time.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Yeah, don't know anyone who has problems with this either. But reading an analogue clock is one of the things the preschool check-up tested here in Germany (along with tying shoelaces, vocabulary, pencil grip, etc.)
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Jenn Olges 1 year ago
I work in public education (suspension room). My schedule is on the board, and our kids are given computers to use, which (obviously) have clocks on them. They still have to ask me what time it is, or how long until we do the next thing. Whenever this happens, they get an impromptu lesson in how to read an analog clock (on my wall). It's to the point now that some of my regular kids teach the new guys how to read it!
#11
Millennial here: Baffled at the number of people having children with various "baby daddies" and "baby mamas" that all seem to be horrible people. Do they not vet their partners at all before making them parents? It's like there's not even the expectation anymore that two people would raise their kids together. (Note: This probably sounds judgemental, but I genuinely am just baffled.).
Reset Game 1 year ago
Gen x - AGREE! Why in the world would you purposely bring a child especially multiple children into a world where you know the kids are most likely going to grow up in poverty. 🤦♀️
Jaymi Leigh 1 year ago
Absolutely. If you can't feed your baby, don't have a baby.
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Bored something 1 year ago
It used to be an anomaly. Now it is a frequent occurrence. That is new.
Load More Replies... Breadcrumb. 1 year ago
80% of children are being brought up in single parent/shared custody situations. It's not that your "husband died in the war" that your a single mom. It's because Jeremy is lazy and never helped with the laundry so you dumped his a*s and now share custody. The fact that you can divorce him and live with out having to remarry is a new concept. I think we need to change our attitudes around what it means to be a single parent, it's the new normal. And it's a choice.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Probably because most of them haven't. Here in the US, sex ed is verboten. Teaching abstinence isn't sex ed, it's the perpetuation of ignorance.
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clairebear 1 year ago
I am horribly judgmental, I am inclined to think it makes a better story on the internet, therefore garners more attention and money. They want to be stars in their own soaps.
Pete Nosal 3 months ago
They aren't thinking about babies when they have s*x, just as bank robbers don't think of prison
Cass Malone 1 year ago
Sometimes people don't know the monster they're with until after said babies are born.
JNDauterive 1 year ago
So many are results of the pro-life movement. So many of these youngsters have no business at all having kids.
According to the expert, the thing that has influenced or shaped current youth the most is undoubtedly social media. “Young people today craft identities and tell narratives about their lives—whether fact, fiction, or somewhere in between—online. More importantly, they often derive their self-worth from others’ responses to the images they put out there. The number of likes, views, or followers they receive, the praise—or insults—they receive online, and other indicators of their online presentations are critically important to their self-views.
“In past generations, we certainly cared about what our classmates and peers thought about us, but we had less data and it was less pervasive and in-your-face. So, we probably felt better about ourselves,” she added.
#12
Doing incredibly embarrassing things for social media attention.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Or incredibly risky things. Some of them fortunately succumb to Darwinism before they can breed, which is helpful.
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
Perhaps they lacked attention in their formative years? Simply a hypothesis.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Take my upvote. I think you're overthinking this, but it's not worth a downvote.
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
I did some truly idiotic stuff as a teen, but I didn’t have access to social media. Thank goodness my cringey teen self doesn’t live on forever on the World Wide Web.
Carrie Laughs 1 year ago
Same! I'll probably cop a lot when I get into my dotage!!
Load More Replies... ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
My daughter (17) recently got grounded for cliff jumping into a reservoir that had clear no swimming signs all around. She wasn't thinking of the safety of it obviously and was just having fun. But then she turned around and posted pictures of them doing it, including of the no swimming sign. We talked and she agreed afterwards that it was dumb and posting was even more dumb. She's a very smart kid, but that was a stupid decision.
Carrie Laughs 1 year ago
The brain finishes developing and maturing in the mid-to-late 20s. The prefrontal cortex is one of the last parts to mature. This area is responsible for skills like planning, prioritizing, and making good decisions. It's why so many teens do stupid stuff, no matter how smart they are.
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Learner Panda 1 year ago
Not just embarrassing; dangerous, illegal and downright stupid. How many have died doing various challenges?
#13
Mostly Im baffled by how poorly educated young people are these days. History, Geography, Sciences, Maths, Literature..so much knowledge is missing.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
What boggles my mind is how they seem so proud of their ignorance!
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Yes, that's the crucial difference. Pride in ignorance is truly the worst trait. People who are willing to learn, grow and accept that they might have been wrong at one point (weren't we all?!) is human. Admitting you were wrong in the past never happens these days (because everything is recorded forever on the internet and no one wants to lose face).
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Jerry Mathers 1 year ago
This is 100% due to conservative politics, especially the rights insane ideas that teachers are tEacHiNg KidS tO Be GaY. Entitled kids, unsupportive parents, and low pay already make a teaching a poor choice for a job. Throw in politicians who aren't qualified to run a lemonade stand, much less govern, and who now want to ban pronouns (wtf Idaho) or mandate teaching their stupid Christian fiction (fu Texas) and you have created an impossible situation. I wouldn't teach for anything. Teachers should be paid over 100k. They are that valuable. Instead we are pursuing stupid policies, lowering standards (because teachers are leaving due to stupid policies), and running out one of the most important jobs in the country. This sowing of stupidity in our approach to teachers will lead to a generation of uneducated adults and cement the US's place as the trailer park of the world.
Biofish23 1 year ago
I don't see how anyone can fault the kids for this, it's 100% on the adults. At least in the US deliberately undermining education is a top priority of the right. They want easily swayed voters with no understanding of history, or science or logical reasoning.
Stephanie Martin 1 year ago
Balderdash! Students are given the opportunity to learn, but they would rather sit on their phones all day
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Reset Game 1 year ago (edited)
Train kids to be a professional athlete (with a 1% chance of actually becoming a professional athlete,) educated kids to go to college/ be able to take care of themselves OR teach religion in public schools and create more cult members 😒
Patrick Linnen 1 year ago
You have seen conservative "thought" leaders talk about education right? Much less teachers and school budgets.
Just-4-2day 1 year ago
If it isn't broken down to short sound bytes / videos, it doesn't hold their attention? IDK, 🤷🏽♂️
Nimitz 1 year ago
A lot of that is a functional problem and you can always learn later, even though that's a little sad. The one that makes me crazy is no knowledge of history so they don't give a damn about people repeating mistakes. I work with a lot of gen Z and none of them know how Hitler managed to take power in the first place, so they don't care about the current wave of far right populism taking hold 80 years later... We're right back in 1938 right now. Trump had his Beer Hall Pustch and now they're working to solidify their takeover to repeat.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
It's 1933, not 1938 right now. In the unlikely event Trump goes to prison, maybe he can write a little memoir about his struggle.
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Face tattoos. I don't really have a problem with tattoos generally, but come on man, it's your face.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I don't have a problem with cultural tattoos, but the other ones are just so dumb. There's no reason for words to be on your face.
Leah Brown 1 year ago
My ex got a bunch of face tattoos after we split up. He can not seem to grasp why I have a problem with them. Buddy, I'm the one who would have to constantly look at and be reminded of your poor decision making skills, not you. BONUS: he also now wonders why no one wants to hire him!
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Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
Nah, the issue isn't that it's their face. The issue arises when they get a face tattoo and THEN complain about being unable to find a job. It wouldn't be a problem if we lived in a perfect world with less judgemental people, but we don't, and that fact needs to be taken into consideration when making such choices. In that sense, a face tattoo plus whining is a testament to a person's stupidity.
Corvus 1 year ago
The post obviously does NOT refer to culture-specific tattoos.
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CanadianDimes 1 year ago
If it’s not cultural, to me, face tattoos look dirty. Like actually as if the person’s face has dirt on it.
Robin Evans 1 year ago
yeah, i agree. i definitely plan on getting tattoos one day when i have the money, but not on my face. i also don't understand getting things like cheeseburgers and spongebob tattooed. those things cost money, man! why not get one that actually means something?
Sandra Morison 1 year ago
Me too , I have tattoo,'s and generally thing people should be free to express themselves BUT MOST face tattoo 's are horrible
Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
it's the badly done ones that make me cringe. i don't care what part of your body you tattoo, just get a really good artist, especially for the ones the rest of us are going to be seeing, or don't get mad when i'm staring at you weirdly trying to figure out what the hell that is on your face, just sayin
If youth trends baffle you too, and you want to understand the youngsters better, “talk to a young person,” Dr. Carr suggested. “Ask what’s important to them, and why. Or, ask them for a recommendation for a TV show, podcast, or influencer whom they appreciate, or a book that they found particularly influential, and then discuss it with them.
“The only way we can bridge generational rifts—or rifts more generally—is to get to know one another as individuals, rather than relying on false stereotypes.”
#15
Broccoli haircuts.
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
Every generation has to have haircuts that will embarrass them when they reach 30.
kissmychakram 1 year ago
True this. Never forget the perm wars of the mid to late '70s.
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PFD 1 year ago
That's the same with almost every awful style. A minority can carry it off, and it makes everyone else thinks that they can, too...
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Sky Render 1 year ago
At least it's not as bad as the more hideous haircuts of the 80s and 90s.
François Bouzigues 1 year ago (edited)
Exaustive list of the haircuts that were THE sh** at some point in my life : mullet, middle parts (never could pull it, made me think i was ugly for a solid decade), spiky, dyed, 3-6mm, emo, pompadour, mowhawk. Brocolis works on many ethnicities, face shapes. And it is easy to maintain. Don´t wait too long before trying trendy haircuts guys You might run out of hair way sooner than you would like.
Stephen Lyford 1 year ago
I saw a meme where these haircuts were compared to them all just looking like alpacas, and now I can't unsee it.
#16
That literacy rates are plummeting. This one is so confusing! How can you be the chronically online generation unable to read?
Candid Panda 1 year ago
Constantly watching short snippets of videos and Tik Tocs has caused an attention deficit. Why read when you can watch c**p all day?
Tabitha 1 year ago
Ever read Fahrenheit 451? All of this sounds so familiar.
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sbj 1 year ago
Also not being able to tell the time from a traditional clock face with clock hands, now during exams in the UK they have to have a digital clock on display as some of the students can't tell the time otherwise. Reading a clock face was something I learnt in primary school at the age of 5
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
I'm the opposite. Love to read (daily), but zone out when it's an audiobook (my inner voice is too loud 😳). It's a good thing in a way, I suppose, as I find it very easy to tune out what I don't want to hear. 😉 Plus, I grew up when not all families had a house phone (we did, but us kids weren't allowed to use it), and had to use Libraries to learn stuff.
Load More Replies... Juanita Sullivan 1 year ago (edited)
This is really sad. I was raised by parents who continually told me I was stupid. I believed it after hearing enough. There were no cellphone or social media while I was growing up. Yes, I'm that old. Something the younger generation doesn't realize is, these things didn't always exist. I hated reading because I couldn't see the sense in it as I was stupid right? Something happened in my mid 40's that was life changing for me. It made me realize I was not stupid the least little bit but I was horribly hurt because my parents treated me so bad. Both were gone by the time I realized all this. This c**p with social media and not reading is worse than what I went thru because it is definitely dumbing down too many. I just hope these people realize it sooner than I did. Now I can't read enough and I'm a published writer under a pen name. I want to read everything ever written and I want to know everything there is to know. But life is not long enough.
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
It's because we are a listening generation instead of a written one. At my college though, they are going back to pencil-on-paper for a lot of stuff because of AI so I think literacy will come back up as expectations go up.
Agent Of Nothing 1 year ago
This drives me crazy too! But part of it isn't about being chronically online. School systems are changing methods and requirements. My niece is in grade school and never learned phonics! They just hand you "worksheets" to quite literally look at words until you memorise them. If you don't know how words and sentences come together, you don't really know the language.
Susan 1 year ago
Then the internet has made the teachers more lazy, too. If all they do is look up worksheets to print out and pass those out to kids. And sending them online to websites like Kahoot as "homework"
Load More Replies... Patrick Linnen 1 year ago
Look to the parent and preachers complaining that reading anything makes kids too educated and mouthy.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
This is the way the powers that be used to think. Learning to read was illegal. They didn't want the general population reading the Bible.
Load More Replies... Cass Malone 1 year ago
Again, the problem is the schools. They aren't getting the funding needed
#17
Taking parents to job interviews.
Lincoln_Park_Pirate:
It just happened at my workplace for the first time (television). Blew my mind. Mom waited in the lobby but came in for the negotiations. Applicant was 26 years old.
Candid Panda 1 year ago
How embarrassing. Nothing says you're immature and incompetent than a 26 year old bringing their mommy to a job interview. What's next, having her join your client meetings and put together your presentations?
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
I imagine that applicant might be very fluent in their chosen profession, but struggles w social interactions. Yeah, that's a problem.
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Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
"Well, we don't think you're a suitable fit for the job. But, we'd like to hire your mum."
Jack Burton 1 year ago
My main goal in life when i was a teenager was freedom from my parents. Left home at 20 and never even thought of bringing my mom to any appointment...
Carrie Laughs 1 year ago
Same. Couldn't wait to start my own independent life.
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Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I once had a young woman show up with her whole family (mom, dad, and a brother). When we called her in for the interview, they all tried to come with her. When I explained that only the applicant could come in, the father went off in a language that I did not understand, and the mother saying "No! She cannot go by herself!". When I finally got the applicant alone, she explained that her parents did not believe that she should go anywhere alone. I said that if we hired her, it would be just her and not her family. I asked how she was going to get around the problem, and she said would try to find a way to work it out. She was a nice person, but her yelling dad pretty much ruined her chances.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Helicopter parents have become lawnmower parents (from what I've heard): they simply mow down any obstacles in their precious baby's path, and so the kid never learns how to do anything for themselves.
The professor continued to emphasize the importance of understanding one another by pointing out that every generation manages the best they can, managing the hand they’ve been dealt.
“Younger people today have faced highly distressing events throughout their lives – from rampant school shootings to vast political divisiveness to isolation during COVID. If we see younger people feeling anxious, distressed, or fearful of their future, we should understand where they’re coming from, rather than judging them or holding them against a standard that’s unrealistic.”
#18
Becoming addicted to nicotine. I thought younglings would be a little less stupid than us.
Bols 1 year ago
Vaping is even worse than cigarettes imho because cigarettes simply stink to many people and vapes come in all those delicious flavours
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bas moelard 1 year ago
This is not something from only this era. It's been around since forever. But the tobacco industry gets them addicted while they're young, because they don't really see them difference between good and bad yet and are very easy to get on board.
Verena 1 year ago
Yes, but as written by OP: With all the knowledge, why do young people still fall in that trap? It even is expensive and young people constantly claim they have too little? Literally burning hundreds of € or $ every month does not make sense.
Load More Replies... George Costanza 1 year ago
They don't smoke, but they sure do like to suck bubblegum scented poison fumes into their lungs.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
When i was in high school in France in the 90's, we were allowed to smoke in the schoolyard. I'd say almost half of students were smoking during breaks time. So i'm not sure it's a younger generation problem.
My O My 1 year ago
That not. But you would think they could have learned sth
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Pamelot 1 year ago (edited)
Vaping needs to be aggressively and directly addressed. To be honest, I am a Baby Boomer and did delve into vaping. The draw of it and the amount of exhaled smoke were the addictions for me. I finally found it horribly expensive and refilling a major inconvenience. I returned to smoking. I DO want to stop! Money down the drain & major health concerns here. 😒
Arnaud 1 year ago (edited)
I did quit smoking using vaping. A few things that worked for me: if you still want to smoke cigarettes when vaping, then your nicotine dosage is too low. Increase it until you don't need to smoke cigarettes anymore. But don't exceed 12mg/ml. Also, as you say it is expensive, I guess you were chain vaping. Same reason, nicotine is too low. Find the correct dosage. Stick to it for 3-6 months and then lower it. But if you start craving for cigarettes again, increase the dosage, wait a bit then decrease again. Do this until you are at 3mg/ml. Then you can quit the vape cold turkey or switch to 0mg/ml. I did cold turkey. It was far easier than stopping cigarettes
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
That kids have access to tons of the latest health, exercise, diet and longevity information on the internet and deliberately avoid learning any of it in favor of watching stupid people do risky Tik Tok stunts.
Anna Drever 1 year ago
I don’t understand how young people think spending money on smoking/vaping is a good idea vs spending that same money on something you get to keep.
DC 1 year ago
We were the last that expected themselves to be that stupid. Don't be offended, I'm a heavy smoker. But, I see how dumb it is and would wish to only smoke to special occasions. But, ... well, ... you know. That VAPING, a replacement, a substitute, can lure people in is beyond me. Burning stuff to inhale, at least, has something to it, aesthetically, and a cigar may even taste somewhat good, ... but ... that stuff doesn't even need to have any nicotine in it! Why even start, why even add it in the first place?
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
I agree with this sentiment. I never understood why my classmates in the early 2000's would be so dumb as to get hooked on cigarettes and dip, knowing the health complications. Also, its gross watching someone spit dip into an empty water bottle.
#19
Young people seek information by watching TikTok content rather than Googling the answers. If you have a lot of time to spare, you will often get good info, but I'm middle-aged, and I've always been a big reader. I will do almost anything to avoid having to watch stuff (or listen, for that matter) when I can more quickly visually skim and immediately determine if the information is relevant to me and seems legit.
cj 1 year ago
I feel like it depends on the topic. When I want to learn a new crochet stitch or method, I turn to tiktok because I can watch several quick, focused videos of different people doing the same thing and I can synthesize all of that different information and figure out which demonstration makes the most sense to me, instead of having to try and replicate written instructions with my hands or having to navigate through a youtube video's introduction, sponserships, and ads to try and find the 30 seconds of the video I actually need to see. But for facts and knowledge, I always put the effort into the research.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Makes sense if you're trying to see a demonstration of a method. I hate video (doesn't matter if it's tiktok or youtube or whatever) when I'm after *information*. Like when it comes to recipes, I want a printed list of ingredients I don't want to watch a video of someone talking about them.
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Ervin Conn 1 year ago
I first noticed this on news feeds. Click on an interesting sounding article and it takes to you a video of a news presenter. No. I want to actually read the words for myself.
Lauren Caswell 1 year ago
I've noticed increasingly that if you provide anything you know, you get accused of copy-pasting. As if no-one can know anything if not for this stupid search engine that didn't even exist for the first part of my life.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
This is why I often ask instead of googling. Experience.
Load More Replies... CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
Too much is inaccurate. I have to really know a creator did their homework before I just believe anything that they say. And if they can't site sources, nope.
ProcrastinationStation 1 year ago
That's me- I need to read, I don't have time for watching full videos, don't they see their method takes a lot longer? :D it may also depend on whether the person is baseline auditory or visual and I am definitely not auditory
Miryaa 1 year ago
Oh yeah. I can't follow visual instructions. I absolutely need them written. I'm also mildly autistic, so that may be part of why I can't understand instructions unless they're in words.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
You're so right. There are different learning styles.
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I guess there’s like elementary schoolers with a skincare routine now?? That’s nuts….
Electric-Sheepskin:
I saw some people in the skincare addiction sub today recommending that a 17-year-old get Botox and retinol for the lines on their forehead. Insanity.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Anyone here's heard of these "Sephora Kids" before? Young girls that buy anti aging creams and stuff like that for their skin. A 12 year old doesn't need this stuff, and it's bad for their young skin as well
Nea 1 year ago
Bad for skin and bad for mind. To be conscious of how ‘aged’ one looks is taxing even when its expected, imagine living with this for so many more years that could be spent in bliss without this ‘concern’.
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Poediddy 1 year ago
The overuse of the filler word "like".......is another trend that..like... drives me nuts!
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
I also add "so" to that list. Person gets asked a question, and the response almost always starts with "so." 🙄 "Judy, what time will you be home?" "So, I was thinking like 10:00."
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
I used Ponds face cream from the age of 16, and I'm not sure if it made a difference, lol. I remember being invited for a meal at a kind of barn-like place with Country Music (UK). I was 45 and hadn't bothered with makeup for quite a while. I was in the Ladies when a (very pretty) girl (said she was 24ys) came in and commented on my skin & asked how old I was. Told her, and she looked shocked, then told me she'd been using Botox for 3 years. And then I was shocked. That was nearly 20 years ago, so it's been happening for a while, now ... but looks like the age is getting lower, sadly. I read somewhere that young girls/women look older that they are, nowadays. It can't be healthy to do this stuff when you have sufficient natural collagen.
Passerby 1 year ago
To be fair, taking a little care of your skin even while young can go a long way, granted that you don't go too far. A moisturizer and a sunscreen sound reasonable to me, but botox and retinol are way too much. Skincare is not evil. It can help you feel good about yourself. But too much of anything is bad for you.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Not sure for other country but in France elementary school is from 6 to 11. So i'm quite surprised.
Anya Beboop 1 year ago
Similar in USA, where we definitely have issues with this happening.
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A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ 1 year ago
Yeah people in my school that are Gen Alpha keep calling people and even the gay teachers homophobic slurs too..
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
You shouldn't be downvoted for that, I've seen it happen too. Blows my mind, so much to the younger generation being more progressive.
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Lena Flising 1 year ago
I’m 54 and people often guess I’m 40 something. I have never had a ”skincare routine”. (I had to show ID in the liquor store until I was 38. Age limit here is 20.)
#21
Anything Andrew Tate.
Just-4-2day 1 year ago
Google: Who is Andrew Tate and what did he do? Andrew Tate, an online influencer known for his displays of wealth and his misogynistic views, is facing criminal accusations over sexual misconduct in two separate cases. Mr. Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, have since 2022 been battling charges from Romanian prosecutors that include human trafficking. Apr 26, 2024
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
OMG, this idiot & his misdeeds needs more attn. Ppl need to be aware that this sick db and his brother have influenced so many men out there about s*x trafficking via being a fake boyfriend. Victimizing young women. Warn your children
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
Anything with the "Alpha male" movement. Honestly are we just trying to make misogyny cool again?
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
That's a rightwing cisgender heterosexual male problem, not a "youth problem". Thirty years ago, some idiot boomer was selling the book "iron john" to encourage the same c**p. Sixty years ago, it was considered "funny to joke about killing women". Same sith, different decade.
Robin Evans 1 year ago
I F**KING HATE ANDREW TATE AND THE BOYS I GO TO SCHOOL WITH ALL WORSHIP HIM.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
I'm sorry. He is an idiotic, racist, horribly sexist, dangerous man, and I don't know how they don't see that.
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I've trained 3 early 20s co-workers now that don't use the Shift key to capitalize letters. They hit caps lock, type the letter to be capitalized, then hit caps lock again.
I can't wrap my head around it.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
One finger (generally thumb) typing on a small keyboard doesn’t allow for another finger to hold down the Shift key while the other types the letter to be capitalized.
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Karen B 1 year ago
A lot of "younger" people aren't that good with computers. They've grown up using phones and tablets.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
I think as millenial it was pretty much the standard to become fluent in computer use - the technology really took off by the time we began using them (Wide spread internet access, games, other applications) and tablets and smartphones weren't around.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
The younger generations aren't exactly the most intuitive typists. They can absolutely rock the gesture typing on a phone, but stick them in front of a standard 104-key and they'll fumble a lot. I'm the fastest at data entry at my workplace simply by virtue of knowing how to type properly.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Now that I can understand, because shifting the type bars on a typewriter can be more than a pinkie-finger's worth of effort, plus caps were used much more often in the typewriter era because they were the only way to create emphasis. Bold and Italic weren't options, and underlining required going back over the text with underscores.
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
As long as its a capital letter where a capital letter should be who cares how they do it? This is nit picking
Makajha Banjjjak 1 year ago
Not really, it's a sign of different generation. No millennial would do that
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Grape Walls of Ire 1 year ago
Back in my day, Unix keyboards swapped the Ctrl and Caps Lock keys. This is how all keyboard should be. You can customize Windows to do this. Also, everyone should use the Dvorak layout. How's that for a cranky old guy?
Lame Llama 1 year ago
Not many people can be bother to install Unix; It takes too much trouble to set it up when there are ready solutions.
Load More Replies... ConstantlyJon 1 year ago (edited)
Hi there! I'm 32, learned how to type on a keyboard in typing class in elementary school, have graduated from college and held down office jobs my whole career. I think my WPM is something like 65, so not crazy but not slow either. I ONLY use caps lock and never use shift key and have always done so. I wasn't taught to do that, I just picked it up and rolled with it. Ironically to this post, my kids have to have chromebooks for school and they don't have a caps lock on them. When I type on them for something, I have to really slow things down.
#23
I run a restaurant, and employ a bunch of young people. EVERY dude under 25 has bangs, some significantly longer than the rest of their hair. I call them *Flock of Seagulls*. They don't get the reference.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
If youngsters can't have daft haircuts, what's the point of being young?
GenuineJen 1 year ago
Haircuts get a pass from me. Mostly harmless, easily changed, no long term side effects.
#24
Binge watching short videos compiled so you never watch anything with a plot or storyline. Just tons of 10-60 sec videos and most of them suck.
VikingAbroad 1 year ago
It is rather harmful, actually, because people get the instant gratification, and when you asked youngling to do something (school related) and there brain is not rewarding them instantly, they find it boring and cannot see the reason for doing it. I even had one youngling, who thought learning to play guitar would take 'like, you know, an hour?'
Jack Burton 1 year ago
And you're saying me adults don't do that ? I have a 38 year old colleague that watch this sort of clips all day long.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
No, I said attention spans have withered accordingly.
Load More Replies... Sophia Athene 1 year ago
When creating my 1st online course due to covid, a fellow professor who had much more experience told me that none of my lecture videos should be over 2 min. Since students don't read the material, I needed to create overviews of the reading, all less than 2 min. I asked how I was supposed to shove 400 yrs of history into 2 min. His answer was to make multiple videos , as many as needed, all of them under 2 min.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
Not gonna lie, sometimes those shorts are a life saver. I watched a whole movie by watching short clips of it.
Rali Meyer 1 year ago
Worse: Often the first answer (to a post) is taken for real. True or not. Hardly anybody reads on.
#25
There was a group of teenagers in the parking lot talking about scientology, and they were thinking it was a neat religion, like a bunch of them were genuinely interested. I've never hit a child before...but holy hell their brains needed to be reset.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I went to Catholic elementary school. Scientists say that the human brain does not develop logic skills until in their 20's. But I knew in 4th grade the religious dogma the nuns were trying to teach me made zero sense at all. Like the claim that god was everywhere and all knowing. Well that means god knows the bully behind me is tormenting me and does nothing to stop him. Does that mean god has no compassion for those who suffer? Is god inside that bully because god is everywhere? Is god inside the desk I am sitting at? What purpose would god have to be inside my desk? Like I say, all nonsense.
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Phobrek 1 year ago
The sneaky thing about Scientology is that the intro book, Dianetics, at least starts out by presenting some common-sense ideas, but in their own terms and framing. So it at first seems somewhat sensible and interesting. But in practice it goes quickly into quackery. And also further into the book, I think... I couldn't finish it because my eyes kept rolling.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
When I was a teen we all thought Wiccan and Druidism were super cool and it was very superficial. I recognize that Scientology is a real cult - I think teens will always think non mainstream religions are interesting because they’re different. It won’t necessarily translate to them joining.
Sister Mary Jane 1 year ago
Did you tell them that Scientology was not a religion but they used that to avoid paying taxes.
Mario Mohl 1 year ago
Scientology... as opposed to any and all other religious cults.....
Load More Replies... Slapdash1 1 year ago (edited)
That's not a religion. It's a financial scam, invented by a (bad) sf author, dressed up as a religion and operaring like an organised crime group.
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#26
I'm not really too baffled, I just see a lot of worrying trends.
The main thing that concerns me is the steep decline in mental health among young people since smartphones went mainstream and we got the internet in our pockets. I'm not shocked at all to see it but it is very bad.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago (edited)
i love my belly-button, so why don't people acknowledges me. Me me me me me me edit : doesn't ?
Brent Amador 1 year ago
And if you don’t agree with me, you’re (Racist, bigiot, etc)
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Bobby 1 year ago
Is it really a decline in mental health or more awareness of it today than when we were young?
Susan 1 year ago
No, there's definitely more mental health issues thanks to social media creating more isolationism in teens (there are studies, you can look them up if you really want to know). Not to mention it being compounded by Covid lockdowns during their formative years.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 1 year ago
Can we be real? Coronavirus was the worst thing that ever happened to mental health. There's an entire generation that's just screwed.
Susan 1 year ago
I was screaming this the first month of lockdowns and everyone brushed it off saying it's better to be "safe" and that "kids are resilient". Now look at the increased number of suicides and shootings related to young people.
Load More Replies... Lene 1 year ago
And this is exactly one of the reasons that my kids are begging me and my bf for a phone....and they cannot have one. The oldest turns 7 in two weeks. It's so problematic when their friends get older siblings' old phones. Why is it that I have to explain to my 5yo that her friend in kindergarten has her big sister's old phone and that her parents must believe it's an OK thing to give their 4-5yo kid a smartphone and to bring it to kindergarten when I strongly do not believe it's an OK thing? Why do I have to be the "bad" parent in my kid's eyes because of this? I hope (but don't think it will work out so.... ) that my kids can wait to have phones 'till they are at least 14 years old.
Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
is it really a decline though? or has social media just made it possible to really know how bad it's been all along?
Nimitz 1 year ago
I feel like there's crossover here with us just having the language and tools to identify mental health issues. I grew up with severe anxiety/depression/PTSD and I got beat up by my dad for "faking" being sick when I got so afraid I'd puke at school. No mistake, phones are bad for kids, but I feel like those of us who need/seek help are actually making a lot more progress these days
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I am 69 years old and never owned a smart phone. A friend tried to convince me it was a life changing experience because you now had all your data with you round the clock. I asked him why the heck would I want my data with me around the clock? I think it would distract me from actually experiencing the world around me. Duh!
LargeMarge 1 year ago
Again, mental health has been an issue since forever, we just see it more because of social media.
#27
Vaping. Isn't it clear by now that inhaling fumes is not really a good idea?
Chumbo 1 year ago
The part that I found the most troubling is how many adults are introduced to nicotine through vaping. I started smoking cigarettes as a teenager (as teens do) and smoked for 9-10 years. Vaping was a less destructive alternative for me. I'm sure it's not good for me but it can't be worse than cigarettes. Of course I wish teens/preteens wouldn't pick up the habit but adults should know better.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
My friend is an a&e doc and she says the problem is worse now for a lot of kids because vaping products are a lot less regulated than cigarettes in terms of what's in them. They are seeing kids with major lung problems they never saw before from cigarettes. Don't get me wrong smoking anything is not good but the poor regulation of vaping products and the lack of available research on the affects of some of the ingredients seem to be hugely problematic.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
I never smoked cigarettes but smoked a lot of pot in my youth. When I developed some chronic health issues at age 26, the doctor asked me ho much pot I smoked. She was not concerned about the THC, but because all the pot back then was grown with tons of pesticides! It never once occurred to me that I was inhaling pesticides all those years. There are tons of pesticides on cigarettes as well.
Marianne Bosch 1 year ago
I was a smoker for 25 years and vaping helped me get off of them. I went down to 0 nicotine with no flavors and now I hardly vape at all. I think the flavoring is what gets kids into vaping and ultimately into cigarettes. I really wish teens would not pick up the habit as well.
Dre Mosley 1 year ago
Developing. a smoking habit in general has always baffled me. I tried it once and never cared to do it again.
Sister Mary Jane 1 year ago (edited)
And to think we used to ride our bikes behind the truck spraying mosquito fog.
Daniel Marsh 1 year ago
Can we talk about marijuana? The number of kids who go to school absolutely baked every day is horrifying.
#28
The popularity of "nuisance streamers" with younger folks. I don't find being a public nuisance even a little bit entertaining or funny, especially when its being filmed. Also just in general the trend of filming, photographing and trying to make "content" out of their entire life in some vain hope of becoming internet famous. I don't get it. Last thing i'd ever want to do is have my entire life posted on the internet.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I'd add to that the trend of middle aged people (of all ages, actually) whipping out their phones and screaming YOU'RE ON VIDEO! at anyone who mildly annoys them in public. Including police officers.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Mmm. Nothing wrong with just recording someone in public. If a police officer is behaving properly, then they should welcome a recording because it'll protect them against malicious allegations. If not, I've got no sympathy and the recording could be used to support a prosecution. The problems start when (often cunningly edited) recordings are posted online without permission of the target and/or with malicious intent.
Load More Replies... Kombatbunni 1 year ago
I see an influencer in the wild or someone blocking the way to film for tiktok? You can bet I’ll be walking through to mess up their photo or video. It’s a public space, don’t be a d*ck
Tabitha 1 year ago
If I have the time, repeatedly walking through, to the point where they give up and move on. Especially if they’re really getting in the way of people who have real places to go and real things to do, like real jobs they actually went to school (college or trade school or apprenticeship, which I consider to be on the job school) to learn how to do. It’s my personal public service.
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Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
I was recently reminiscing about a motorcycle trip I took from Los Angeles to Vancouver BC about 35 years ago, and realized that despite my having vivid memories of many moments from that trip, I didn’t have a camera. The good moments don’t necessarily require photographs.
#29
Allowing every one of their friends on Snapchat to know their location at all times. Like seriously. My 23 year old coworker and her friends are constantly revoking and then reinstating their visible location depending on if they're happy or mad with each other. If someone notices that they can't see where another person is, they'll actually bring it up, wondering what they did to upset them. Her best friend will ask her friend to check her boyfriends location, and whichever friend he told her he'd be with, to make sure they match. I told my coworker that it's weird for everyone you know to know where you are.
At least I can kinda understand family members knowing, but even then, my siblings don't need to know where I am at all times, and my parents should maybe stop constantly checking once I hit 18? 21 surely. Lol. Her sister will text her asking why she went certain places because she constantly checks location on her. They have an app on their phones specifically so they can always see where family members are. Her dad texted her once she got home and didn't come inside after 5 minutes. He knew she just drove up. She was simply typing out a reply a text to a friend before getting out of her car. Again...she's 23.
Idk, I guess if you grow up with it, you don't think it's weird. I'm 43, I certainly didn't grow up with people having the ability to know where I am at all times unless I told them or called them.
Mia C 1 year ago
This is not only young generations. There's adults and families that have the need to tell the world where they are and if they are on vacation. Perfect time for a burglary. Makes no sense
Leekier 1 year ago
That’s why I never post about my holidays until I get back!
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Winna Kinsa 1 year ago
Thank you! You just reminded me to turn off my location. I prevented people from seeing my location for good measure. I just made a snaps account 2 weeks ago and I've already met 3 creepy guys that asked for my boob size and tried to send me d**k pics, blocked them before they had a chance. And what makes it even weirder for me is that I'm sure they're looking for minors cuz they asked my age (I am a minor, but didn't tell my age cuz my bro taught me online safety), and that's just so gross 🤮
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
My husband and I share our locations, but we rarely actually check. It's more of a, "oh, it's late, let me make sure that he's not in the hospital or on the side of the road for 3 hours" kind of thing, not a "I need to know what he's doing at all times" kind of thing. I trust him.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Me too, and I share location with my parents. But that's it
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My mom has a smartphone. Usually she can manage to text or call me. She can also usually find Candy Crush. That's about it.
Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
I'm not sure this is a trend, I think that coworker's friends and family are just weird.
#30
Not using condoms. My generation was raised hearing about Ryan White and seeing Very Special Episodes about why we didn't want AIDS and everything else. Apparently some younger people aren't worried about it anymore.
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
On the other end of that gambit, I recently learned of a retirement community in which the incidence of venereal disease is very high.
Ace 1 year ago
Condom use in the 1970s and 80s, before Aids, was very low and normally only as a contraceptive. Most girls were on the pill anyway, so why bother? (Was the attitude at the time).
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ucp 1 year ago
I remember the public service ads in the UK in the late 80s/early 90s: people saying they had unprotected intercourse just once, and now they are dying. It was always followed by a doom-laden voiceover “this is not the voice of an actress (or actor)”. I was so scared, I resolved only to shag actresses.
Robin Evans 1 year ago
and then they're like "wow i wonder how i got pregnant!!" like??? you didn't use a condom???
BigCityLady 1 year ago
It's not just AIDS, but it's other diseases that can be transferred by intimacy. I had a GF that dated a guy for a short period, early '90's, who had contracted hepatitis by a guy she was dating. She suffered survive for a six solid months as the doctors were unable to diagnose why she was so ill and they ran tests after tests as she was raising her daughter alone. Here we had watched the AIDS epidemic for the last 8+ years and watched as our friends dying from AIDS at such a rapid and heartbreaking rate and she had unprotected sex with a guy she was dating.
Sue Phillips 1 year ago
Her doctors couldn't figure out hepatitis?! Wonderful. Women in this country receive such crappy health care.
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Sue Phillips 1 year ago
Watch out, person with my initials, you may be accused of ageing yourself with the new term STI.
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Cooking Panda 1 year ago
My HS had large photos of ppl with HIV, herpes, and other STIs displayed in the main corridor. The pics was so horrifying i still remember it after 20 years
Max Pasterski 1 year ago
Here’s a lesson for all the gay kids out there: Even if you’re not gonna get anyone pregnant, you don’t want to have or give an infection to someone else. No matter what gender, condoms are important.
#31
Making fun of another kid because they don't have a specific water tumbler. It sounds like somebody is trying to parody "making fun of other kids for having the 'wrong' brand of clothes or phone".
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
Well, dammit, you have to be part of the In crowd! So it’s water tumblers now, is it? I suppose it makes a change from sneakers.
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
Water tumblers now. Designer clothes when I was young. Stuff shaming is not new.
Sue Ellen Jensen 1 year ago
I didn't get bullied in school, probably because I didn't give a sh!t what anybody thought of me. I was not "cool" by any means.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
Nothing new again, I was bullied in school for not having the coolest shoes. Not saying it okay but being bullied because you are not in the in-crowd is nothing new.
#32
All the self labeling. When I was young, we avoided labels at all costs!
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
What is defined as self labelling? I’m gay? I have ADHD? I have anxiety? Most of what people designate as labels are part of someone’s identity and their life. We just have more awareness of how many factors might be part of someone’s life than we used to.
NetworkMan 1 year ago
It's the self-diagnosis that annoys me though. Someone likes their pencils in a certain order and goes 'Oh I'm soooooo OCD', and it's like, no, you're probably not, you just like your pencils a particular way. Someone has one trait of a disorder and starts going around calling themselves it, which bothers people like me, who actually has ASD.
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Dre Mosley 1 year ago
Everyone is putting things like "ADHD" and "Nuerodivergent" in their profiles and have probably never been diagnosed officially. You're not autistic just because you're a little awkward or quirky 🙄
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago (edited)
I have a coworker that flaunts that all the time. Every other sentence it's "But I'm autistic, and have ADHD, so whatever." Ok maybe you are, maybe you aren't.
Load More Replies... Lennart 1 year ago
Hard take on the youth coming from the people that branded 'don't ask, don't tell'.
iseefractals 1 year ago (edited)
I was born in 1983....don't ask/don't tell policy was implemented from 1993-2011....so not really something "we" branded. This obsession with labels and identity politics is a new form of stupidity that's only arisen in the past decade.....in fact when i was a teenager, everyone prided themselves on being sociable with absolutely everyone.....we didn't isolate ourselves into little groups of people who all thought, felt, looked, dressed and acted the same way. We were actually capable of debating and exchanging idea's and accepting differences without trying to distill everything into victim/victimizer dynamics. People used to understand that the only thing that mattered was the content and quality of your character, labels were just a means of telling the world that you don't actually have anything of substance to interest others outside that very narrow lens.
Load More Replies... Karina 1 year ago
I think when we self-label as something at the forefront, we risk excluding all the traits we didnt know we have. "I have anxiety" is very limiting, both as a self-label and for how other people interact with you. The sum of our characters should be as large as possible, not as defined as possible
Nimitz 1 year ago
Yeah, and it was silently screamed at us to be normal when we were kids too in an incredibly toxic way. I applaud people understanding their issues early. It's not always pretty, but a lot of them keep up with identifying and labelling their baggage and over time they tend to make good progress. Kudos kiddos
#33
Calling anyone with a different opinion a troll. I see it over and over and over. I do not understand and I can only feel pity.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
It's very annoying. Lots of people getting banned because people can't agree to disagree
Load More Replies... Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
or even better, if you can elaborate your opinion in front a genZ, they call you mean because you're attacking their feelings.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Just trick them to stay up until sunrise and they'll turn to stone. It worked for Bilbo.
Slapdash1 1 year ago
Most of the trolls aren't even that. Trolling, as we know, is a art. Many of these supposed trolls are just regular id!ots.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
It's way worse - nowadays everybody with a different opinion gets declared as absolute enemy. Oh, you think LGBQT marriage isn't that bad, leftist woke communist! Pointing out violent behaviour from a foreign culture, absolute Nazi! - People forgot how to discuss and instead just defend their positions at every cost by painting all the others as absolute worse to avoid overthinking the own position
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
Or calling anyone who doesn't blindly adore your favorite thing a 'hater'
LargeMarge 1 year ago
I will call you a troll if you are spewing hate or misinformation of any kind.
#34
I use my phone a fair bit, but it's really hard to imagine it being my *only computer*. I need at least 20 inches of screen, a trackball and a keyboard with physical buttons just to *think* properly. I don't want to budget my battery to last all day in case an important text comes through. I want my internet signals sent over a hard wire. When my computer stops working, I want to open it up and swap the broken part with a better one.
But if my web analytics are at all a representation, more than half of everyone is only looking at the internet through their phones.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I can only afford one device. The phone was cheapest and lightest.
iseefractals 1 year ago
What does "lightest" have to do with anything? Light and thin has no baring on performance or usability. As for cheapest, i doubt it. Ebay is awash with used corporate machines that are a couple of years old and range from $25-$200. Mini PCs have gotten quite capable, likewise can be found for around $200, A raspberry Pi, which is capable of running windows can be had for $50 bucks, and is both smaller and lighter than your phone. I built my mother in law a SFF desktop on the AM4 platform for $225 that she has hooked up to her TV. Decent tablets, both new and used can be had for cheaper than even most budget phones. You don't need to spend an exorbitant amount of money to get a decent desktop, you just have to make sure there's some sort of upgrade path to be able to add performance as finances permit.
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Melissa Goulet 1 year ago
I remember the first time I watched one of my students type an entire chem lab report on her phone complete with subscripts for chemical formulas. Blew my mind.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
" more than half of everyone is only looking at the internet through their phones. " yeah but they only watch plikplok
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
I only have my phone, in my mid 50s...it's convenient and what I can afford.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
I only have my phone too. No WiFi broadband just basic weak Internet through the phone. Not everyone has the money or need for the rest and I used to be a right computer nerd!
Ervin Conn 1 year ago
Anyone remember the Motorola Bionic? That had a thing called a lapdock. You jacked your phone into it and it had a full display / keyboard / mouse. That got killed because it was wiping out the tablet market which was just ramping up. I loved mine.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I hate touch screens. I'm always typing gibberish on them, and autocorrect always picks the word that is least likely to make sense. I also don't like tracking pads because trying to move things etc. using them is a nightmare. I'm typing this on my desktop computer with an actual keyboard and mouse.
WickedLibra70 1 year ago
I am the same way, I'm typing this on my tablet and it's annoying but I am laying in bed and dint use my laptop in bed
Lena Flising 1 year ago
Short comments work on phone or iPad. With longer comments I want a proper keyboard.
#35
I listened to a 23-year-old (more than a decade younger than me) say she wanted to start 'preventative Botox.' Girl...
TheElderNom 1 year ago
I've heard it can help with excessive sweating which also seems like a good use if a doctor recommends it.
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Matt Richardson 1 year ago
The obsessive fear of wrinkles in the under 30 crowd is unreal. And they are passing it on to their children as well. Take care of yourself is admirable, but some of their skin care routines are more harmful than anything else.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Also, literally everyone who has ever lived has also died. Enjoy it while you're here - don't waste time with perfectionism; it's a trap.
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A woman in my country went online to our local message board to talk about what happened to her. She got botox for her eyes, crows feet and under eyes. They left her eyes, especially her under eyes in a terrible state. Her eyes were grand she's a normal looking 45 year old woman, very attractive with, what i thought, very smiley eyes. Her poor face. They pumped her with more told her it would take a few days to calm down. She's got suit cases not eye bags and her eyes where she thought she had crows feet are all crepe paper looking. She named the place and the person who did it and went to see a surgeon who said that her skin has been compromised. This botox trend terrifies me. The fillers are ridiculous once you mess with your mouth you look so stupid. I feel so sorry for young people now, they're roped into 'looks are everything'. I'm not saying we weren't when we were younger but growing up for me it was hair colour, clothes, music, jewellery not disfiguring yourself.
KimB 1 year ago
Seriously the only skin care regimen they need to worry about is applying sunscreen and washing daily
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Yes. Keep your skin clean, wash your makeup—-which should be clean and comedogenic in the first place—-off completely and don’t sleep in it, use sunscreen, eat a balanced diet, exercise, get enough sleep every night, stay away from d**g use and severely limit or cut out alcohol consumption. The earlier you start doing all those things, the more benefits you will reap later in life. When you’re older, you will look 10-20 years younger than you are, you will have more energy, and you will retain a youthful outlook. That is how you beat aging, by taking good care of yourself. You still age, but it doesn’t take as extreme a toll on you as it could. We don’t yet know the effects of lifelong Botox use. We do know how godawful and blatantly obvious most cosmetic surgery can look on people who are fighting a losing battle to artificially stay young. All they really should’ve done is take care of themselves and age naturally and gracefully. Most of them could certainly afford to do that, ffs. Then again, there’s the bigger issue of society’s obsession with youth that needs to be permanently flushed and replaced with appreciation of ourselves at all ages. That’s the main battle to fight.
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Mitchell 1 year ago
I have Botox regularly. It changed my life. Not because it stopped migraines or any medical reason, but because I have a crease between my eyebrows that’s half a mile deep. I tried it about 30 years ago for vanity reasons and my interactions with people transformed immediately. I hadn’t realised that the first impression people got of me was that I was angry, so they responded accordingly. I’m talking shop assistants, waiters and yes even colleagues and bosses. For sure once they got to know me they knew my resting face wasn’t an angry one, but all relationships improved dramatically. I’m not saying teenagers and 23 year olds should all get Botox, but like most things, it’s easy to judge without knowing where someone is in their life.
clairebear 1 year ago
Clostridium botulinum bacteria is the most poisonous substance known to man. There are no studies about the effect of its long-term use. I wouldn't want it anywhere near me.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
I am 50 and the only time wrinkles pop up on my forehead is when I am teed off.
Rali Meyer 1 year ago
When I was that age I started preventive s**ex. Just in case. Also drinking whisky. Just to be ready at 18 ;-)
#36
I know a girl that had plastic surgery by the time she was 19.
When I first met her, she was literally a ten. Now, she's funny looking.
luizaspiller00 1 year ago
I guess the fact that people will refer to others as a "ten" kinda explains people's obsessions with their looks....
Cooking Panda 1 year ago
Watched a youtube vid a few weeks ago about a trend among japanese moms, where they had their YOUNG DAUGHTERS (elementary scool age) get eyelid surgery. Yikes
Kar Red Roses 1 year ago
What sort of plastic surgery? It has been a thing around here (NY/NJ) for girls born with large noses to get them “fixed” before their super sweet sixteenth. I was in retail floral back in the nineties and sent many bouquets with stuffed animals wearing bandages on their noses. We kept a box of pretty band-aids in the balloon cabinet just for that.
Learner Panda 1 year ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078721/ Classic movie which gave rise to the "rating" of beauty to a maximum of ten.
Cat_Whisperer 1 year ago
Plastic/cosmetic surgery, in my opinion, is something that it best used when there is an actual physical defect that prevents a person from living normally…or if there was significant damage during a accident…or maybe implants after a mastectomy due to breast cancer (if she wants them). Obviously everyone has their reasons and, if removing a bump in your nose or whatever is what it takes for you to feel good about yourself, so be it…but there’s such a thing as ‘too much’.
Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
I wonder how they can afford this. My parents couldn't even afford braces for my teeth. I paid for them myself when I was 30.
Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
i don't begrudge anyone getting plastic surgery, but you can legit go way to far past a nip and tuck, or a fix my cooked nose. the problem is that not everyone can afford the types of doctors that the hollywood crowd has access too, or one who will tell you it's time to stop
#37
Being unable to read beyond sight words. Like they CAN read, but not the same way you and I assumably can. They can read words but only because they are recognizing the word itself the same way you might recognize the picture of a bee as a bee or when you read now a lot of it IS sight reading in that you're likely not reading this comment sounding out all the letters- but if you came across a word you didn't know you'd likely have the skillset to read it anyways or at least give an educated guess. I worked as a teacher and this past year I've been hearing more and more complaints from the higher grades/up even into highschool that their students by and large aren't able to sound out words/read like we were taught to. That's not to say NONE can but it's a significant issue that absolutely baffles me. Like, I legitimately can't tell if this is some elaborate joke and they forgot to cue in the laughtrack to cue me in or what; but from the conversations I've had they know what letters make what sounds like "a" makes "ay" and "ah" but not how to USE this information functionally when presented a word they don't know before. This skill just.. apparently wasn't challenged and because the kids presumably COULD read (by sight) the issue wasn't recognized until recently. I'm honestly hoping this is JUST our small towns issue and not widespread as I don't even know where to begin dismantling such a profound oversight.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Add to that, a frightening inability to write legible or coherent sentences.
Never Snarky 1 year ago
I was taught phonics back in the dark ages. It was actually fun to learn. Then somebody had the bright idea that phonics was a waste of time and sight reading should be taught. Also lost is diagramming sentences. Oh, and, multiplication tables. No flashcards. And how to make change. These are basic skills to help us get through life as educated people. "Him and me don't agree. She don't, either."
Nikki Angulo 1 year ago
Phonics are making a comeback, it’s all about the science of reading now. We know more now than we ever have about how people learn and learn to read.
Load More Replies... Matt Richardson 1 year ago
It's not just reading, it's basic math skills as well. I train newbies at work as part of my job, and I had to teach a 16 year old high school student what the coins where and how to make change.
Jaymi Leigh 1 year ago
Where do you guys live? I've been teaching grades 1 and 2 for 15 years in Alberta, Canada and it's all phonics based instruction. I also use multiplication tables, flashcards, and spend months working with money and teaching my students how to make change. We do a lot of writing around proper sentence structure and paragraphing as well... sounds like a regional issue.
Michael None 1 year ago
and celebrating not having read classic stories and being ignorant of history. Like the Greek Epics are going to be unknown by the time I'm dead, it's really a shame.
Slapdash1 1 year ago
Tbf it's not at all simple in English, and people who learn it as a second language struggle with new words. 'Blood' and 'hood' look similar but have differents sounds. So do "through" and "though" and "tough." Same letters different sounds. If you combine this pre-existing confusion with the functional illiteracy and general id!ocy you get what you get.
MisterE 1 year ago
The OP is speaking on native English speakers, not someone learning it in a new or different country as a second language.
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Mary Moeller 1 month ago
It’s called “whole language” learning and it starts in kindergarten. No phonics education at all. It was one of those movements in the late 80’s that didn’t disappear. Shameful.
#38
Mullets, will we never learn?
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
I don't know what group i am in but i like the mullet
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Now i have to say, and i am probably alone in this, but some men looked gorgeous in a mullet. I've seen young men wearing it now and they look very handsome. Some people are very lucky and can pull every look off.
●Fool● 1 year ago
Fr i think its because their is a more modern version of a mullet that actually looks nice
Load More Replies... Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
be fair now, not all mullets are joe dirt mullets, and most of what they are calling mullets today are some sort of shag mullet hybrid that looks pretty good
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
What's wrong with them? Keeps your neck warm and doesn't block your vision :P
WickedLibra70 1 year ago
I don't mind things from the past making an appearance again ugly or not. It's when they think they discovered something new..
#39
The rising support and voting for extreme right parties/pundits among young people in the West. The people leading these parties will ruin everything resembling a future that you might have. These are awful times to become an adult in, but they do NOT care about you or your plight as a younger generation.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Look on the bright side. The recent Euro elections in the Nordic countries saw the far right lose a lot of support. Not bucking the trend, but ahead of the curve, they say: apparently it turns out that the far right are rubbish in government. They got votes, they had influence in government, then they lost votes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/11/left-wing-nordic-nations-provide-ray-of-hope-in-europe
PFD 1 year ago
I like the optimism. I hope it's not misplaced but think it probably is.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
I can only speak for Germany (and yes I will get downvoted for this and called a Nazi) - but there is correlation outside of being rebellious, wanting to stick it to the parents, etc and the reason is that young people experience first hand the influence of muslim culture in schools, clubs and other spare time activities. Violence, harrasment and racism towards them became quite a common problem they face. Pair that with a government that won't act at all out of fear of being called "Nazis" and you get the situation that people will vote for parties that are willing to act in their interests
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
Better to say that people are willing to vote for hate-mongers that they perceive as being willing to act in their interests, having been taught to hate and fear the targets of those hate-mongers. I've paid attention to what's going on in Germany. From where I sit in the UK, the AfD is horrifically racist and bigoted. I've seen AfD election posters; many of them would be defaced almost instantly if their equivalent were displayed in the UK.
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Awkward lady 1 year ago
And the support for terrorist organisations, you don't understand how repressive they are. There is NO tolerance, especially for women and LBTQA + people.
jasper 1 year ago
The rising support and voting for extreme left parties/pundits among young people in the West. The people leading these parties will ruin everything resembling a future that you might have. Seriously, anyone with extreme politics, ideologies is a hazard to our future. The biggest lie I see told is from either side claiming the side they hate is all the same, ie. "ALL conservatives" hate women, gays, and whatever, " or "ALL liberals want to give your money to illegals and homeless junkies while they get rich themselves." How about we find some common ground and make living in the country worthwhile?
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
There's no such thing as the far left in the West any more. The whole idea of the far left being a "thing" is just a right wing conspiracy theory used to scare people away from voting for politicians who don't agree with the hard right's agenda. It's got so bad in the US, for example, that "liberal" (meaning "in favour of liberty") is used as a term of abuse by the right wing. And the US right wing is so far gone that no-one should call them "conservative": far too many of them are radical extremists trying to undermine the rule of law and other fundamental American freedoms. There really is a conspiracy trying to undermine Western democracy: it's the billionaire backers of the Atlas Group and other more shadowy organizations.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
The far right has risen because the leftists have become *too* soft and *too* woke. It's a natural pendulum; it swung too far left, so it is swinging back. The left tend to forget that they are a vocal minority, and the silent majority will only tolerate so much change.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
"Woke" just means "aware of racism and other forms of social injustice"; there's no such thing as "too woke". The real reason the far right has risen is that certain self-serving politicians and other self-interested powerful people in business and the media think that it's in their interest to encourage them. Admittedly, moderate centrists in Europe in particular got complacent and thought that the far right was no longer a problem, thus allowing the far right to crop up again. But it's not the fault of leftists: it's the fault of the centrist establishment on both the left and right.
Load More Replies... Reset Game 1 year ago
Proof with an investigative report prove a politician is not a good person regardless of what political party they're part of and still backing that politician simply because they're part of the political party they believe in. They're all crooks
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
The idea that they're all crooks is one promoted by the cynical crooks. Plenty of politicians really are trying their best. Learn to spot the difference between the unprincipled scoundrels and the ones who are just a bit dodgy round the edges because frankly everyone is once you get down to it.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
This is not a "young people problem", this is "rightwingnut racist whites are afraid non-whites will rule them" problem.
Nimitz 1 year ago
It's because kids don't know history anymore. They do not know how people like Hitler managed to take power in the first place, so they're susceptible to people like Trump and modern Nazis like Stephen Miller. History already repeated the Beer Hall Puscht. Are we really gonna have a 2nd Reichstag Fire and Krystallnact again? As a gay man it makes me VERY worried, cause they are targeting queer people HARD right now
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
The sort of political terrorism and oppression seen in 1930s Germany exists right now. India, China, and Myanmar all suffer from it to one degree or another, as do other nations. The US didn't have a Beer Hall Putsch - that 6th January mob wasn't lead by a latter-day Hitler, it was just a deluded disorganized rabble which would have got nowhere if the security service bosses had done their jobs. The US will be fine, as will NATO-alligned Europe (obvs. Canada, Oz, and NZ too). Africa, I worry about; South America, I don't know enough about.
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Wm Paul Robinson 1 year ago
I hate all this waffle about left or right. Every party in governments worldwide is supposed to govern us all equally.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
After the loss by Democrats in 2016, Chuck Schumer blamed his own party. The failures of his party & their obsession with Trump got Trump elected. Chuck warned it will happen again. And it is happening again. The Democrats do not have a winning team & even the extreme left is so ticked off that they believe a Trump win will stick it to Biden & the Dem party. Radicals on both sides need to be expunged from the parties. I talk to many people in public, perfect strangers, natural born & immigrants. We all can agree on the same things without wearing our partisan banners. But we just saw this primary election, the candidates were chosen by the parties, not the people. Nobody is looking forward to November.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
There aren't any "extreme left" national politicians in the USA. No, Bernie Sanders isn't extreme: he's a moderate centre-left capitalist and the antifascist lot are just trying to protect people from extreme right-wing violence. You need to recalibrate yourself if you think there's any "extremism" on the left of US politics.
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#40
Today on reddit one told me they refuse to show up to an initial job interview that is in person. They demand the employer use zoom to interview them. It was baffling.
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
WOW..... unless the job is to work remotely, I'd hope the potential employer would nope right out.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
This person isn't smart enough to understand why they don't get the job.
Reset Game 1 year ago
Depending on the job I sort of understand this one. The time and cost of going to an interview has to be worth it. Employers may not like it but they are being interviewed too.
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago
How can the person who wants the job set the terms? They demand to use zoom?
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I would be the complete opposite. I would pass on a video job interview.
Stephanie Longo 1 year ago
If they have been out of work for a while, they might not be able to afford the gas. If they take the bus that's a lot of time to come in for a initial interview. A lot of these kids are applying it hundreds of places trying to find work. You can't do that on a bus. Zoom interviews would alleviate a lot of the problems
LargeMarge 1 year ago
I do not want to zoom an interview, I don't know any younger generation who is cool with that. I would be scared of them if they were.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Good luck getting a job, demands before they are employed would get a big no from most employers.
#41
One thing that baffles me is how much time and energy the younger generation spends on social media. It's amazing to see how much they are constantly on their phones, checking notifications, posting updates, and scrolling through endless feeds. I can't imagine being so connected to technology all the time and not taking breaks to be present in the moment. It's a completely different way of living that I struggle to understand.
Immortal Jellyfish 1 year ago
I once stood behind a person struggling to pay, pack do anything at the supermarket checkout because they had their phone in front of their face. They weren't talking to anyone or anything, could have just sat it down or put it in their pocket or something. Funny thing is they paid with cash..........
Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
LOL. Used to be the person that was struggling to do things at the supermarket was going through coupons, trying to find their checks and/or make them out, digging for that one credit card, or looking for that last penny if they were paying with cash. There's always THAT person in front of you at the supermarket - always. You always hope you won't turn into that kind of person.
Load More Replies... Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
I like to people watch. My wife was shopping in our local mall & I was waiting int he center area. Three teenage boys hanging out but not directly interacting. They are RPGing on their phones. Three stunning girls there age spot them & come over. They try talking to the boys. None of them looked up from their phones. They can't be bothered. These girls were gorgeous. The boys were cold fish. I looked around & an elderly guy is admiring the girls until his wife jabbed him in the ribs. Even the gay couple nearby were admiring the girls. Not the teenage boys. Not a lick of male hormones in them.
Michael None 1 year ago
I can explain social media! Low self esteem and insecurity being taken advantage of for data harvesting.
Rali Meyer 1 year ago
Yet, they cannot fathom that a person builds something that take 1.000s of hours. Like a boat. Or learn an instrument, or language. I am glad to be too old to see the end of this "new" trend.
Cat_Whisperer 1 year ago
They are addicted to instant validation and gratification of likes and replies and smiley faces and friend request and all the other c**p that comes with Facebook and whatever else.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
i power-on my phone two or three times per month. I have a landline and 3 mail adresses, just pick one
#42
Giving up. I work with some twenty-somethings, and many of them are completely defeated. They don't think they'll ever own a home or have a meaningful career or get out of debt. They just throw up their hands and resign themselves to a life of drudgery, bills and the occasional weekend bender. They don't want to be astronauts or engineers or rock stars, they just want to escape reality by way of d***s, videogames and endless screen time. Who is going to rule the world?
Reset Game 1 year ago
Unfortunately there's a lot of horrible things happening in the world so I kind of understand this. We've got a felon who is still running for president, over 600,000 homeless people, women's rights over their own body being taken away from them, the necessity to make four times the rent just to have an apartment and the cost of an education even trade school is extremely expensive.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
The amount of literal Nazis in the world right now is honestly terrifying. It's not just America that's going down a dark path.
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Matt Richardson 1 year ago
Wages are stagnant, inflation is not. I urge you to compare not only salaries and rent of yesteryear, but also what job benefits are offered as well. And let's not forget tuition costs. Groceries, gas, utilities, and other expenses. Do it.
Nimitz 1 year ago
In a world of capitalist min-maxing where everyone is trying to drive up the prices of everything, yeah, this attitude makes total sense. The game is HIGHLY rigged against young people nowadays. Before the internet it wasn't possible for companies to analyze everything everyone does to make a profit, now it is. And they have ruined so many things. I live in Montreal and you should see how predatory some property companies/stores are towards students. They view them as cash cows to be exploited to the max. Modern student apartments don't even come with stoves or storage anymore. They expect them to eat out every meal. A kid can't catch a break. Of course they're depressed
Nimitz 1 year ago (edited)
Seriously, last time I went apartment hunting here I saw a renovated building near McGill. It originally had 3 floors and 12 units. Someone bought it, renovicted everyone, then split it up into 20 units. About 160 sq ft, no stove, microwave only, small fridge, no freezer, $1200/mo. I currently pay $1250/mo for an 800 sq ft place about 10 blocks away. We DESPERATELY need govt housing and strong rules to prevent these money gouging a******s!
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doredde 1 year ago
That may be so, because the older generations unfortunately created societies and economics, that in many aspects worked for THEIR benefit and weren´t very sustainable and forward-looking. And to a certain extent they still vote and participate in politics to try to hold on to that systems, that now have no substance any more and will "kill" the next generations. Being optimistic and motivated when you know you may never be able to "achieve" certain standards. Not because you lack the will and power, but simply because living standards have changed to the worse and costs have exploded for even basic needs with a collapsing capitalism, is not their fault.I can understand some of the fatalism very well, because I sometimes feel it too, being GenX and somewhat lived within both "worlds". Having big dreams is good and well to push yourself. But it has to correlate with reality.
Verena 1 year ago
The majority of people in most countries loves to be suppressed by Nazi-principles. This seems to be the only reason why so many vote for these parties. It seems as if the knowledge about the years 1930 till 1945 is forgotten. But many voters do not even understand what they voted for. Dutch farmers voted for the extreme right wing PVV, who wants to kick out all foreign workers. After the PVV won, these farmers were in panic, because without these lowest paid foreign workers who agree to live in shacks with barely sanitary facilities, farming is impossible. 80% of all Dutch farming products are exported, because they ard dead cheap
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Mmm. We've escaped rule by the far right here in the UK - the actual far right parties always fail. Then again, we did get Brexit which has had similar effects on British agriculture as the PVV seems to have had in NL.
Load More Replies... Chumbo 1 year ago
Every time I see BP change dr*gs to d***, my brain just assumes it says d*cks because why would we need to censor dr*gs? What are we doing here?
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
1000000% read that as "they just want to escape reality by way of penises"
PFD 1 year ago
These complaints are getting dumber and dumber. Seriously, from what generation do you have to be to complain about the kids and d***s with a straight face? Clearly not someone who was young in the speed-and-ecsasy 90s, the coke-and-crack 80s, or the acid-and-weed-fuelled 60s and 70s. My *parents* spent their youth getting high and living in squats and communes, and I'm nearly 50. OP must be at least a century old. Or just full of s**t, I guess.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Japan has been dealing with this problem for a long time. It got really bad about 30 years ago. To the point that adults who hit maturity between 1994 and 2004 are sometimes called the Lost Generation due to what they had to live through.
#43
Not dating someone bc of the phone they have....
Max Pasterski 1 year ago
There was once a post on BP a while ago of a girl asking a boy for her number, he showed it to her on his phone, and she left right then because he had an android.
tori Ohno 1 year ago
I won't touch apple anything. Android is so much user friendly.
Load More Replies... Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
As far as I can tell, all the online dating sites screen by looks first. (Swipe right, swipe left.) I think it’s sad, but so it goes.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
is that REALLY a thing? I never even NOTICE what phone someone has.
#44
Wearing earbuds at work during a shift on an active, collaborative team. (I think earbuds aren't a problem at all for quiet, focused work, or work where there's not much need to speak with others at a moment's notice.) I understand that many of them can easily hear things, but in my brain, earbuds carry a strong "do not talk to me" message that makes it hard not to see them as inappropriate at work unless someone is hunkering down for a longer, quieter solo task. At worst , I see them being a hazard in certain workplaces (my own workplace for example, a metal fabrication lab, a lack of full attention could lead to nasty consequences), and at best, I think they send a less than respectful message to coworkers. I suppose that people have no obligation to treat their coworkers with more than the minimum of respect and courtesy, but I figure that having some friendly connections at work could make each shift more enjoyable for everyone.
Jaymi Leigh 1 year ago
This is a huge problem in the school where I teach. Our junior and senior high kids will not take their earphones off, and it's very disrespectful. I wish it was enforced as a rule that they stay in lockers during class time unless they are being used specifically with a device for class, for educational purposes.
Robin Evans 1 year ago
the annoying thing with kids doing this is that then if i have earplugs in to dull sound and avoid overstimulation, i can't do that because some other kid wanted to listen to kanye f**king west in class. i'm sitting there having a full on panic attack because the noise is too loud but i can't wear my earplugs because other people are using theirs for music.
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Casey Payne 1 year ago
Part of my job requires me to be able to answer the public phones, so I have to keep mine available at all times. And I don't do well with earpods and would rather have headphones, but can't find any that is smaller than wearing a coconut on my head. The pods have to be put in/on a certain way so I can hear the caller and that the earpods don't fall out of my ears. Not to mention that once those earwigs are not in my ear they are free floating in my pockets and difficult to keep track of. I'm certainly not keeping uncomfortable pieces of plastic in my ear canal just to p**s off my coworkers or boss.
Zelda Lin 1 year ago
It's often a defense mechanism against those horrible 'open office' spaces where you can see and hear what everyone else is doing, and 'collaborative culture' is a code for 'people barging into your personal space and grabbing at your attention whenever they want'. I always wore headphones when I worked in one, it was the only way to get things done
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
I got called out by my friends teenage daughter about my 'poverty cords'. I still have an MP3 that uses an aux cord. I don't like the earbuds without a cord because it makes me nervous about them falling out.
Ervin Conn 1 year ago
I am not at work to be your friend. Casual politeness is the most you will get. Apparently you have never worked with a Chatty Cathy that feels that just because they have nothing going on at the moment that you must not either.
Redacted 1 year ago
No, it wouldn’t. Older generations seem to think they are owed things; such as polite conversation. A job is both emotionally and physically taxing and no one owes anyone any extra time simply for their pleasure.
Raphapablap 1 year ago
You're likely going to be working for 4+ decades. Think you can do that whilst not talking to people unless absolutely necessary?
Load More Replies... Stephanie Longo 1 year ago
As more people are being properly diagnosed as neurodivergent, earphones help block out distracting noises so they can focus better.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
You're there to do a job. You're not obligated to be friends with your co workers. I've read on here and also heard so many stories about co workers running their mouth and making work environments miserable. A lot of ppl would prefer working from home these days in office jobs instead of mandatory in office hours. Thank the pandemic for that. Ppl realize that they can get their work done without putting up with annoying co workers and micromanaging power abusing bosses.
#45
Gen Z and their constant self-diagnosing.
PFD 1 year ago
Exactly. It's yet another post where something found across generations in varying forms is weaponised in the generation wars. It's so tiresome.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
I don't know if it's just gen Z, but it's a definite trend. Newsflash: Having someone disagree with you about something, or using a bad word in front of you one time, doesn't cause PTSD, and makes it all the more difficult for people genuinely struggling with actual, ugly, highly inconvenient disorders to be taken seriously.
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
The awareness of the issues that they are diagnosing is fantastic. Like yes, you can get C-PTSD from an emotionally abusive parent. Therapy is expensive. Just being able to self-diagnose and do your own research is something that a lot of generations before us did not have.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
It's also potentially dangerous because people are basing their diagnosis on something that came up on google when they typed "I don't like being around people" or "I get distracted easily". Not saying don't use it as a starting point, but you shouldn't rely on it without getting a professional opinion.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
Nah. I'll say again it's better to try to figure out your issues and work on it than it is to pretend there's nothing wrong like we were taught. And over time a lot of them actually identify and work on their issues. It's messy, but I think they're going to end up a hell of a lot better than the boomers did
MyWeird “WolvesGoTo” DailyLife 1 year ago
I had a friend who self diagnosed in elementary school with ADHD, she told me the symptoms and I said, “Oh I think I might have ADHD!” My friend immediately shut that down and told me there was NO way *I* had ADHD. It was in 7th grade after hating myself for not being able to control my impulses that I had finally gotten a diagnosis. I do in-fact have ADHD. Maybe because of the alienation, or maybe I’m just over-sensitive, but it peeves me when someone tries to make ADHD seem like a fun quirk- something less than- or self diagnoses because every now and then the kid cannot focus.
Mattie 1 year ago
I would explain it with doctor consults being very expensive and medical innovation and diagnosing being too slow. It can take doctors years to diagnose: ADHD, bipolar disorder, endometriosis, autism (and the full spectrum), etc. These might not be relevant to what you mean, and many people might be wrong in their self-diagnosis, but I think that quite often it stems from impatience, lack of healthcare insurance, and the medical professionnals dismissing symptoms and youths as attention-seeking.
Jesha 1 year ago
This one I think is due in part to a lack of mental health care, whether from a parent who thinks it unnecessary or from a lack of insurance or general affordability even with it. Not to mention that it can take upwards of six months easily to get an appointment with a new provider.
Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
are you kidding me? have you met grandma and her knitting circle?
#46
I can't understand why today's kids want to watch YouTube videos of kids or adults opening up new toys and playing with them! Why would any kid want to watch someone else play with toys instead of their own?
Yettichild 1 year ago
To see if it's actually something they want. Or a way to discover new products.
Performingyak 1 year ago
Yet they skip ads whenever they can. That's where we were suckered into buying cool looking things which turned out to be nowhere near as fun as the ad made it out to be.
Load More Replies... Matt Richardson 1 year ago
Unboxing videos are actually quite useful, because you can see the quality, see it in motion and decide if it's worth the cost. I love unboxing videos.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I only watch them to see what is actually shipped in the box. Too many times I've bought something then had to buy something else that is integral to the function.
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Sharkie 1 year ago
When I watch other people unboxing toys it's usually because I am curious what it looks like but I don't want another clutter, don't have enough money and/or want to see possible variations. When I look at playing with toys it's usually because these are not available in my country, I don't understand some functions or want to see it moving before buying. Also I am not sure if we have the same definition of "just playing". My dad calls playing like anything involving toys, anything with bright colorful design or things he cannot identify. I love Lego videos about not original sets but some creative usage of common bricks. I find it calming. Is repainting and upgrading toys "playing"? I love videos of people restoring old toys, styling dolls with new hair and clothes (much better if they make clothes and shoes themselves). I love the creativity. I sometimes use my old dolls as miniature mannequins to model my future costumes and I love inspiration.
Amanda Panda 1 year ago
I said this in front of a young guy who'd grown up pretty poor. He kind of went wide eyed and told me to check my privilege. He looked at videos of toys and games he'd never be able to afford.
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
To have a vicarious experience. Not everyone can afford all those things.
#47
Children as young as 12 drinking coffee before school. Wearing fake nails and fake eyelashes.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
Oops. I got into coffee when I was 2 by accident. My dad didn't think that I'd like his black coffee. He was very wrong.
Bored something 1 year ago
I make my 10yr old a weak instant coffee powder mocha most mornings. There are far worse things she could be getting into and she knows it's out of the question after school.
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Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Parents all over South America give their kids coffee for breakfast, i used to drink a large coffee with milk before school.
Lene 1 year ago
My dad (70yo) has had coffee as part of his breakfast since he was 5. I cannot understand how that is even possible but then again..... I am 40 and I hate everything that tastes of coffee. Incl. Ice creams, chocolates, desserts etc.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
Me too. I add all caffeine added drinks like coca cola and similar because I just can't stand coffee. How people can chug it down is a mystery to me
Load More Replies... Herringbone 1 year ago
When I was a child (Scotland, 60s) all children drank tea and coffee from the age of about 5. I stopped taking milk and sugar in mine when I was 13.
Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
dude i've been drinking coffee literally since kindergarten as my beverage of choice every morning before school and now work. fake nails and lashes, if not just for playing dress up though is weird
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago (edited)
We used to get very very weak sweet milky coffee and tea when we were in primary school so maybe 5 or 6. Everyone would have gotten it. I think now it was more of a belly filler than anything. I assume OP means expresso, latte or black coffee? That's a bit much. I get wired after a latte. Fake nails above the finger tips should be banned as a health and safety issue and those eyelashes! Have you seen the videos of people who don't clean them? Bugs people lots of bugs 🐛
LargeMarge 1 year ago
Look, shut it up about the coffee. I have been drinking it since I was 4 and I am 50 now, but the doctor said if I am not going to keep it up at least drink decaf. I remember my brothers and I waking up early morning in the 80s and making some instant Folgers crystals before school. It was rough times and coffee smoothed them out.
Dogs on a train 1 year ago
i drink coffee every morning! my dad makes it. it's really good it's "starbucks french vanilla decaf@
#48
Refusing to learn to drive. I absolutely understand not wanting to, preferring to live places where you don't have to because of good walkability/transit/bikability, etc. But just being unwilling to learn at all? It's an important life skill and there might be an emergency where you have to!
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Learning to drive is expensive in lots of places, and in lots of places you don't need to drive yourself. Most big European cities, for example. When lessons, test fees, and insurance cost that much, when the roads are so clogged up, and when parking is so difficult and expensive, why bother with a car when you can use public transport?
ucp 1 year ago
£30+ an hour in the UK now. Plus long waiting times for tests. And insurance (which is obligatory) can run into thousands for a car worth less than a thousand. I totally understand the desire not to drive.
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kissmychakram 1 year ago (edited)
I live in London and didn't bother learning how to drive until my late 20's, when I got a job outside of my easily commutable area. It was expensive then (30 years ago) it is almost prohibitive now. Insurance for the young is extortionate.
Lame Llama 1 year ago
Nah, I'm not a youngster anymore and still refuse to learn to drive. I've always lived in big cities where I have great public transport and make enough to grab a cab if I want to. It's not worth the hassle for me.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I had this conversation with my mother about my niece. My mom insisted it’s an important life skill. And it is, in western Canada. It is not in urban England.
bas moelard 1 year ago
In my opinion, of people really don't want to, or are scared to learn to drive, they just shouldn't.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Most of the idiots who have licenses shouldn't. Renewal every five years rewards bad driving, aggressive driving, and road raging. For them to RETEST EVERY YEAR. No retest => no license => no insurance => no plate => no driving.
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Manicmary 1 year ago
I'm still being judged for not learning to drive. I'm German, pay for me and I will gladly do it. It's expensive that's why
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I wish we had German driving laws in the US. Germans do not f**k around. When I visited, I rented a car (Porche) to drive around in and I was in heaven. Everybody obeyed the rules of the road.
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Don't judge. Driving is not an "important life skill", it's a choice. Some people choose not to. Like me. I've never owned a car, and probably never will. I walk or take public transit, and have never had a problem getting where I need to go.
Alec 1 year ago (edited)
I used to drive. Then I was involved in a crash because I reflexively swerved to avoid a dog without looking. I was told that if I wanted to drive I had to be willing to kill a dog. I handed in my keys the next day
Rali Meyer 1 year ago
Nobody will hit an animal on purpose. It'a reflex born into you. I like to see a driving instructor who does NOT try to avoid hitting anything alive.
Load More Replies... Matt Richardson 1 year ago
Insurance is outrageous, gas is unreal, and they are going up ALL THE TIME. Not to mention the upkeep on the car. paychecks are not getting bigger, if anything, thanks to inflation, they are actually getting smaller. I haven't even mentioned the state fees required to make it street legal. A car, and all associated fees are ridiculously expensive.. and costs are climbing. More than once, I contemplated just selling my car and calling it a day.
Robbie Irvine 1 year ago
that is cost to own a car, not cost to learn to drive.
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Not knowing how to use a computer.
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
Does anyone in the current generation not know how to use a computer? I’m very surprised.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Cell phone literacy is rapidly overtaking computer literacy.
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Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
I really don't get this one. If the world is moving toward working remote for almost everything, which REQUIRES a computer, why would they not want to prepare for real adult life?
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Id bet some of us from previous generations must drive the newer generations crazy.lol . I'm Gen X. The only computer I know how to use is my phone or tablet. I've literally had to have them stand and stay and help me with a whole task because I never owned anything that had a mouse. I got them so frustrated that they gave me the paper version to fill out. I never took computer courses in school. My bf never did either. My mom is a dinosaur and since everything is done online now she has to explain to companies her age and lack of knowledge and still mails bills to companies.
Robin DJW 1 year ago
A current trend that bothers me - more and more websites are developed so that they look and work better for smartphones. I suppose it's common sense. Must households will have more smartphones than PCs (desktop or laptop, Windows or Apple). But it's making it harder to navigate w/ a good old computer.
Robin DJW 1 year ago
Actually, a lot of them don't. My daughter (age 47) does not know much about them. She teaches math at a university. I suspect that many younger folks know how to work through a heavily controlled curriculum using specific content lesson sets, how to use a browser. But have the monitor go dark or boot up problems and they are lost and helpless. But they are wizards with smartphones. The two skill sets don't have that much in common.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
I really don't blame them, everyone is on their phones. They email, talk and text. I've even seen someone email PowerPoint on theirs and i was very impressed with that.
René Sauer 1 year ago
Well, I know how it is turned on, how to create folders and save things in them. but don´t ask me about excel or to do any changes in the settings or something.
pep Ito 1 year ago
The GenZ don’t know anything about folders and how things are saved
Load More Replies... #50
Bringing back those thin 90s brows again… its a lesson we all must learn the hard way, it seems.
3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
Well I kinda see this. We’ve been seeing the mustache brows for awhile now. Maybe a normal in between look?
Never Snarky 1 year ago
How about just letting them grow as they will? An occasional pluck for some outlier.
Load More Replies... Robin Evans 1 year ago
i'm just so glad the giant blocky brow trend is over. those things were NOT it.
Jennifer Sabatino 1 year ago
ha, and in the 90's we were bringing them back from what, the 30's ? we continue to recycle fashion, nothing really baffling there
Corinna Weisz 1 year ago
So I'm always out of style and trend, because I just leave them as are 🤷♀️
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
Why can't people just leave their eyebrows and eyelashes alone? I don't get why people feel the need to completely change everything about their appearance.
sweetrottenpeaches 1 year ago
And then the tattoo eyebrows because they pluck it so thin it disappears. I'll never forget those horrible tattoo eyebrows from the early 2000's 😂
#51
Making fun of kids for “no show” or “ankle” socks. WTF is that about?
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
My socks never match, are a mix of ankle and knee, and are half homemade. What are my chances of being cool? (None. The answer is none)
Bored something 1 year ago
That's because home made socks are toasty warm wonderfulness. Something not appreciated until experienced. Why cares about being cool when your feet are happy.
Load More Replies... ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
All these kids look goofy to me in their crew socks. Maybe I should make fun of them?
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
I'm confused by this trend. Are we back to the 80's with scrunched up socks?
LargeMarge 1 year ago
Ankle socks are comfy as fugggg, plus they make good house shoes in a pinch. They can come in different fun colors and themes. People hating on that are not real.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago
Somebody pointed this out to me the other day and I cannot stop noticing it.
#52
Millennial here. They take our style, some of which is from our cringiest years, and some of which is from our parents during those years, tweaked it just slightly, and now look at us and tell us that we need to dress like them otherwise we look like millennials. First of all, we invented all that s**t. 2nd of all we don't think it looks good anymore. Third of all why would a millennial want to look like somebody 10-20 years younger than them? Also why do they think we want to impress them? I don't go to toddlers for romance advice, I'm sure a s**t not going to whatever generation is behind me for fashion advice when they look like some of my worst photos from my most awkward years. I'm incredibly glad that they have found their sense of style and enjoy what they're wearing. I don't give a s**t if they were a toilet seat around their neck. But I do give a s**t that they try to make me feel like the crazy person for not wanting to do that... I look my age because I am that age. And for millennials trying to look like 25 year olds, I don't give a s**t. Don't tell me I look out dated. I look exactly how I'm supposed to look. Also I find people who are obsessed with keeping up with trends are just cogs in the machine of consumerism, advertising, and mass consumption while the planet is burning down around us. Not exactly the kind of people I look to for advice or anything really.
Glitterati 1 year ago
Millennial here. I love going to the shops and seeing my entire 90’s wardrobe on the racks but if I wore that stuff now as a 41 year old I’d look like I missed the memo and have been wearing the same daggy clothing for the last 30 years. I sincerely hope that the 90’s stick thin body doesn’t make a come back. That terrible body expectation and media promotion literally ruined my teen years and warped my ideas around bodies and food for life.
Never Snarky 1 year ago
Why is it everyone wants to be unique, but has to wear what everyone is wearing? This isn't new. I'm 73 and it was the same when I was a teenager.
Aileen Grist 1 year ago
I was at school in the 60s. We wore mini - sometimes very mini - skirts. We thought we invented them. Then people who were young adults in the 1920s said 'no, we wore very short skirts - flappers were what we were called'. Everything has been done before.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
AHHHH-HA HA HA!!!! GenX here - how does THAT feel to be judged - HARSHLY - by someone that is still getting used to being a legal adult? Here's some advice you didn't ask for: Avoid profanity as you TRY to belittle them - and fail. "We were cool before you were." Never ever, ever works. Remember that people in general dread getting older/slower/less attractive than they currently are, but no adult is insecure about their youth and vitality.
Jesha 1 year ago
My torn up NIN black shirt is absolutely amazing with a cute tank top under it after 20some years. No shame here, man. One of my best memories from the last couple years is coming over to an old school mate I'd reconnected with's place to re-meet her daughter after 15 years and hang out. Daughter comes out in a Nirvana shirt and we all talked about her mom crying in the halls of our intermediate school when Kurt Cobain died. It ruled. Great conversation, and a weird memory for me to have held so hard onto but there it was and it was super cute through the lens of an adult. Let me connect with her daughter and get to her. I didn't quiz her or anything, we just talked like people, mostly because I would never gatekeep but also a little because friendo would never have let her kid fake interest in no damn Nirvana. We all look great and high five about it. Fashion rocks.
R.C. 1 year ago (edited)
I saw my younger co-worker come in with a f***y pack about a year or so ago and blurted, "F***y packs are back!?" She responded, "It's not a f***y pack. It's a belt bag." Call it what you want. It's totally a f***y pack lol. Edited to add: Fan*y pack got censored? Really!?
Robin Evans 1 year ago
as a goth kid, i don't understand trends and really never will. it's SO expensive just to keep buying a new wardrobe every week!! i wear the same clothes i have since middle school because i found something that suits me and i don't care about fitting in.
Jesha 1 year ago
You've never added to it? Not even a little? You can do a lot of switching stuff around with versatile cuts of clothing that you can mix and match and keep it going in price efficient ways. No new flair, no additional cuffs, not even a new god idk Lacuna Coil t-shirt? I am so behind on what the goths are listening to nowadays. No new bag?
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Obsession over the infamous, *stanley cup*.
Steve 1 year ago
Panthers will keep the 32-year record of no Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup going.
Load More Replies... ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
The OG Lord Stanley Cup is fantastic. The best trophy in sports. The Stanley cup water tumbler is expensive and dumb.
Robin Evans 1 year ago
it has LEAD. it can literally give you LEAD POISONING. and yet, so many teens still want it. does my generation not have common sense, or do we all want to die painful deaths??
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
Not sure if you're sarcastic, but it's the name of the NHL trophy (ice hockey). Also in this case, a glorified tumbler, that somehow (thanks to SM) has become the *thing* to have (because reasons 🤷♂️), to the point where school kids are being bullied for not having one or having just a budget brand version.
Load More Replies... LargeMarge 1 year ago
A Yeti is just as good, if not, better and cheaper. Who the hell is Stanley anyway?
#54
Cheating on homework. I get it, I got it, you caught me red handed because it's something I did at some point and I think everyone does. But it's way more rampant and way worse these days to the point that you start to get concerned. I was also reading books like crazy as a teen? Scrolling on your phone has become so normalized, I don't see books in public anymore.
leendadll 1 year ago
Turning in work done by AI without reading the content or even removing the "Created by AI" statement!
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Back in the late 90s/early 00s I used to help my mother grade book reports for 6th grade language arts students (I had read all of those books and so was deemed qualified). Plagiarism was extremely easy to spot: multiple students writing basically the same document, using language inconsistent with their other work or entirely beyond 6th grade performance. I can imagine it's even easier now.
Load More Replies... clairebear 1 year ago
There may be books on the screen. I am 55 and have a Kindle. I read so fast I need a book shop in my hands, lol. it is also easier with arthritis to turn the pages.
Neb 1 year ago
Not 55, but I also read on screen. Usually on the app on phone.
Load More Replies... Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
I don't read physical books much anymore because taking my phone to the doctor's office and reading a book there on it is much easier. And I'm 70 years old.
Karen Krause 1 year ago
My sister helped teach her son's class one day (the school had parents "teach" their child's class for one day) For one lesson, she had them do problems from their math books. They immediately turned their books to the back where the answers were. She had them pass all the books to the front and then do the lesson, if they were stuck, she'd help them. They aren't being taught to think!
Robert Millar 1 year ago
How to get an "A" and learn on the way. (Sorry about the poetry.) Start by using AI to answer the question. Follow this by acknowledging that you used it. Now provide an analysis and critique of the answer and your opinion ofhow it all went. As a headerfor the work, list the steps... "To answer this question I did the following...
#55
Generation alpha. How come there are young girls wearing adult clothes at such a young age? I’m a gen z I was wearing clothes from justice lol😭😭.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I agree completely. Do a search for used 80s/90s kids clothes. Kids dressed like kids. Now everything seems to be miniature adult clothing.
jasper 1 year ago
Right? My 16 year old niece has been wearing inappropriate clothing since she was 12. Her mother is barely present. I don't understand why some claim it's just the style, or it's my right to wear what I want. You look like a hooker. You have so much makeup on you look 30 instead of 16. I love her, but geez.
Robin Evans 1 year ago
oh my god it drives me crazy. yeah, i'll admit, at twelve i was probably dressed a little old for my age, mostly because i was dressed in hand-me-downs from my mother. but the seven-year-olds in blazers and plaid miniskirts?? dude, at seven i was still in my little pony merch lmao.
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
Meh. Adults complaining about kids clothes that adults buy them is tired.
Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
Gen Alpha here. I know the kids in my school wear crop tops and such, but I really hope it's not down in the elementary school levels.... I wouldn't be surprised, honestly, and that is TERRIFYING
LargeMarge 1 year ago
GenX over here. I can't lie, I did wear my mom's clothes but not all of them. She had some cool pieces I could rock back in the 80s but very few because her clothes were from Lane Bryant, which I hate with a passion but I get it.
#56
I find many younger people to be very fearful. Hyper fixating on the worst possible outcomes even though the actual chance is so low its not worth worrying about
Those people are gonna get older and be hit with many regrets.
LavenderHippoInAJar 1 year ago
Yeah, anxiety is not fun! And it's also not necessarily voluntary?
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Sarah Jones 1 year ago
It is harder to get away from the news these days, and a lot of it is frightening, so I can understand where the fear is coming from
Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
I'm old and I've always expected the worst. That way you aren't disappointed by the outcome. You either knew it was coming or are pleasantly surprised.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Lots of fear mongering around nowadays from religions, NGOs, companies and political parties - so no surprise
#57
I see that the youth contingent of mega churches is growing.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago (edited)
Yet the idea of a Creator, or accountability to a higher authority, is plummeting. They rely on r/AITA instead of a conscience or principles.
Ace 1 year ago
TBF, as awful as it may be, I'm not certain that Reddit is any less likely to give the right answers as any religion.
Load More Replies... Jack Burton 1 year ago
In which country ? Oh... that place ? That's scarry, it does really exist ??
Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
Indiana probably - there are "6 Flags Over Jesus", as a friend of mine once referred to them, churches in every town. It's not a different country, it just feels like it.
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Brian Irby 1 year ago
I'm going to ignore all of the atheist trolls here and just say that much of this is because the youth are finding that they aren't fulfilled by their social media and being in their phones all day. They might not want spirituality, but they do want community where they see actual people and that is what is driving much of the need for churches.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
When Christian religions saw youth was not interested in coming to church, they then started having rock and funk bands play during the services. Music with a strong beat gets one moving and stimulates the sexual pleasure centers of the body. They essentially used the sex drive to get youth back into their churches. Then because the young people feel good after that music and dancing and movement, the religious dogma credits that good feeling to the "Spirit of Christ". It is a total misrepresentation of what is actually happening in the human body and mind. It is a con to get young people to think religion is making them feel good.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
If you think a megachurch is a mess, try going to a storefront church. The drama is real in all churches, big and small.
#58
Something that puzzles me about the younger generation is their dating and relationship habits. They tend to use apps and online platforms, relying on swipes and algorithms to meet people. It's a big shift from the traditional way of meeting through friends or at social gatherings, and it seems like it makes it harder to build deep, meaningful connections.
AnonymousApple 1 year ago
Online dating was a relief for me. I could vet people before I met them, and talk to them online a bit to break the ice, make sure we had some core things in common, and make the first meeting less awkward. I met my husband on a dating site; we've been together over 13 years now.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
As a GenX I agree but in my opinion, dating is hard. No matter how you do it, whether online or traditional, it is hard work and exhausting.
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Just-4-2day 1 year ago
Sadly there are very few "friends / social gatherings" without massive phone usage. Nobody talks to each other, they text / message.
#59
They don't use ctrl+v ctrl+p.
Sarah Jones 1 year ago
Especially when you start getting arthritis in your hands!
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Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago (edited)
I don't either. Why should I? It's just one damn thing else I have to remember.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
I don't agree with this one. It is like the one near the top about capital letters. As long as you get the desired outcome it shouldn't matter how its done.
#60
I'm almost 28, and an 18-year-old I work with mentioned how guys ask for her Snap. I guess the days of asking for phone numbers are completely gone. I'm not too surprised because I prefer Facebook Messenger over the texting app, but it's still so weird that we don't get phone numbers anymore, apparently.
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
I suppose with Snapchat people don’t have direct contact with you. Maybe an extra level of privacy? Sounds like it could be a good idea.
Nika the Great 1 year ago
I find it easier to keep in touch through Snapchat than regular texting. Ur in constant communication and don’t forget the other person
Robin Evans 1 year ago
i don't have snapchat, so i ask people for their numbers. the look some of them give me makes it feel like i just asked for their social security number...
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
I think people do this because they are afraid to give out phone numbers in case it doesn't work out and the other person just goes psycho.
Belladonna.dreams 1 year ago
With someone's phone number, you cab look way more about them such as all last known addresses, phone numbers, criminal records, everything.
#61
The hyper reaction crowd. They focus on a single sentence or concept and jump to virtue signaling on issues that are either none of their business, or they're unqualified to speak about it. This loud minority is so confidently incorrect that they're basically boomers at this point.
PFD 1 year ago
Again, while it's a thing, it's not only a young people thing. It is however more forgiveable in young people as they're still developing their sense of identity and relationship to the greater world, and part of that is the urge to signal your identity to others. It can be annoying as hell, admittedly. But that's true for all mob behaviour online.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
i am entitled to victmize myself and feel hurt when you say things i don't really get
#62
I don't understand any of their slang. What the hell is a fanum tax?
You didn’t know me 2 mins ago 1 year ago
Sticking out your gyatt (butt) for the rizzler (gen z equivalent of hottie) you’re so skibidi (cool) your so phantom tax (you steal food from your friends so that makes you skibidi) I just want to be your sigma (lone wolf). I actually had to look these up they have definitions now I’m about to cry 😭
Brent Amador 1 year ago
I got a headache just from reading that small bit.
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LargeMarge 1 year ago
GenX, my mom used to say the same thing. I remember I said, Man that is dope! She asked me if I was doing d***s, lol. I said no, should I?
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
No we didn't. Now like now. And in certain countries a gobshite has been the same in the 40s as it is now.
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The kids don't know what the jazz is all about.
Miki 1 year ago
And it's so easy. Just random notes. Nothing more. You can write a program that will generate random sounds? Congrats! It's a jazz.
Tabitha 1 year ago
Jazz isn’t random notes at all. It’s also something you just have to feel more than you can analyze it. It’s like the musician takes a melody, plays variations on it, and turns it inside out to get to its essence. Jazz is like the abstract art of the music world. It’s visceral. You’re supposed to let it envelop you and touch your soul. It’s personal, and will be different for everyone. It defies explanation.
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
Good! Because it's all shite. Don't care what anyone says we all need a good chorus!
#64
Sweatshirts in the summer.
ucp 1 year ago
My wife still layers up in the summer. And she’s from Yorkshire.
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CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I'm cold all year long. And the AC cranked up is really not helping...
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
I love how teens these days will wear these thick sweaters and long sleeve shirts in 90F weather and then complain about how hot they are...
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
Well well well... Are you all old enough to have forgotten that you hear pretty similar stuff about you as a teenager or a young adult ? And for the smartphone/network problem i'd say it concerns everyone. Don't tell me most of adults aren't addicted to smartphone and social network. Every generation found the next one stupid and non educated enough. It's a human thing.
clairebear 1 year ago
What goes around comes around. Silent generation got their knickers in the twist about boomers being Teddy Boys, Mods and Rockers. Boomers had a fit over Gen X's punk, new romantics (men wearing makeup!!!), goths and skinheads. Gen X laughing at millennials and their man buns and avocado toast, it goes on and on.
Notme 1 year ago
Christ, what a bunch of grumpy old farts. Leave them alone, live and let live FFS.
Janet L 1 year ago
Well, the heading WAS about confusing trends among the young….kinda inevitable to get responses about what confuses people then.
Load More Replies... Noproblem 1 year ago
Let me preface by saying I am not talking about people with anxiety disorders. But I think the younger generation has a hard time recognizing that anxiety is an emotion that you are SUPPOSED to feel. They just think anxiety=bad and therefore I should not feel it, and whatever is causing it needs to go away. And they really need to recognize that it’s a part of life and it’s okay to feel that way & they will be okay if they work through it instead of running the other way.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
That's down to too much molly-coddling when young. Everyone gets a prize, no-one loses! Answers aren't wrong, well done for interpreting the question differently! They're not prepared for real life.
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
Sure some of these are specific to younger people, but lots of these apply to people of all ages. More generational divisiveness...
missmal 1 year ago
I think the older generations need to just realize that these newer generations are just different, just like we were different than the older generations. I feel like if what they are doing makes them happy and doesn't negatively impact the life of another human being, leave them alone. If those girls with long nails and eyelashes are happy and confident with how they look, let them be happy. If people do better researching topics on Tik Tok rather than Google, let them. I've found using both worlds well for me and I'm not from these younger generations. Just let people be themselves and like what they like.
Darth Kittius 1 year ago
The younger generations have been criticized by the older generations for about as long as civilization has been a thing. Even in Ancient Greece. And then Baby Boomers get mad about "Okay Boomer" as if they've never been disrespectful to anyone
Malek Basata 1 year ago (edited)
Dear mr grumpus, leave us alone, illiteracy and more might be annoying to you who had it hard, but it is your fault we exist anyway
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Well well well... Are you all old enough to have forgotten that you hear pretty similar stuff about you as a teenager or a young adult ? And for the smartphone/network problem i'd say it concerns everyone. Don't tell me most of adults aren't addicted to smartphone and social network. Every generation found the next one stupid and non educated enough. It's a human thing.
clairebear 1 year ago
What goes around comes around. Silent generation got their knickers in the twist about boomers being Teddy Boys, Mods and Rockers. Boomers had a fit over Gen X's punk, new romantics (men wearing makeup!!!), goths and skinheads. Gen X laughing at millennials and their man buns and avocado toast, it goes on and on.
Notme 1 year ago
Christ, what a bunch of grumpy old farts. Leave them alone, live and let live FFS.
Janet L 1 year ago
Well, the heading WAS about confusing trends among the young….kinda inevitable to get responses about what confuses people then.
Load More Replies... Noproblem 1 year ago
Let me preface by saying I am not talking about people with anxiety disorders. But I think the younger generation has a hard time recognizing that anxiety is an emotion that you are SUPPOSED to feel. They just think anxiety=bad and therefore I should not feel it, and whatever is causing it needs to go away. And they really need to recognize that it’s a part of life and it’s okay to feel that way & they will be okay if they work through it instead of running the other way.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
That's down to too much molly-coddling when young. Everyone gets a prize, no-one loses! Answers aren't wrong, well done for interpreting the question differently! They're not prepared for real life.
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
Sure some of these are specific to younger people, but lots of these apply to people of all ages. More generational divisiveness...
missmal 1 year ago
I think the older generations need to just realize that these newer generations are just different, just like we were different than the older generations. I feel like if what they are doing makes them happy and doesn't negatively impact the life of another human being, leave them alone. If those girls with long nails and eyelashes are happy and confident with how they look, let them be happy. If people do better researching topics on Tik Tok rather than Google, let them. I've found using both worlds well for me and I'm not from these younger generations. Just let people be themselves and like what they like.
Darth Kittius 1 year ago
The younger generations have been criticized by the older generations for about as long as civilization has been a thing. Even in Ancient Greece. And then Baby Boomers get mad about "Okay Boomer" as if they've never been disrespectful to anyone
Malek Basata 1 year ago (edited)
Dear mr grumpus, leave us alone, illiteracy and more might be annoying to you who had it hard, but it is your fault we exist anyway
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