Cooke 2,026 Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Holy fuck some of these statistics are nuts. Girls under 14 self harming up 189% since 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McWicked 825 Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Gen Z? Pfffft. Have you seen what Facebook is doing to the boomers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 Just now, McWicked said: Gen Z? Pfffft. Have you seen what Facebook is doing to the boomers? Yeah.. It's not this bad though. Just watch. Boomers didn't have their formative years drenched in like buttons and duckface. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,206 Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 So are we, but I totally agree. It changed the world, imagine someone like Elvis having twitter. One wrong tweet and he’s not Elvis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 19 minutes ago, ghostz said: So are we, but I totally agree. It changed the world, imagine someone like Elvis having twitter. One wrong tweet and he’s not Elvis We grew up with the internet but social media didn't really become mainstream until around 2007 with Facebook. Most of us were adults by then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Just now, Cookester15 said: We grew up with the internet but social media didn't really become mainstream until around 2007 with Facebook. Most of us were adults by then. In a nutshell "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", we were already by and large adapted to a life before these things where their influence on us is not as pronounced as it is for those who grew up with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alphonse★ 453 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Cookester15 said: We grew up with the internet but social media didn't really become mainstream until around 2007 with Facebook. Most of us were adults by then. Word by 2017 I was getting ready to start college 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sergio Perez SP11 173 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Cookester15 said: Holy fuck some of these statistics are nuts. Girls under 14 self harming up 189% since 2009 Wtf my girls 11, she would never even think of self harming herself Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Carlos Vela said: Wtf my girls 11, she would never even think of self harming herself Good! Keep her that way Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,206 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) 51 minutes ago, Cookester15 said: We grew up with the internet but social media didn't really become mainstream until around 2007 with Facebook. Most of us were adults by then. Still obviously effected by it, forums are one of the earlier forms of social media. We were ahead of the game at gs sw, but it was still social media, in general any website that ever allowed comments from visitors is really social media if you think about it. All the tlhbr, tchbo, tshbk, etc could all be hasttags if we had a big enough community lol i do agree tho, we were the transition generation which is cool to think about. But we are singled out in that regard too. We are split on our thoughts about it, despite being consumed by it Edited January 8, 2019 by ghostz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,227 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 That means that they will grow up in harsher circumstances and have to learn more rules about social risks than people from previous generations. If anything, this is a failure on the people who created the environment and they now have to go through it. But, it also means that they will probably come out tougher and smarter. I mean, alot of adults lose their shit because somebody trashed them in a facebook post. There's going to be a day where we laugh at somebody being that thin-skinned. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 19 minutes ago, jehurey said: That means that they will grow up in harsher circumstances and have to learn more rules about social risks than people from previous generations. If anything, this is a failure on the people who created the environment and they now have to go through it. But, it also means that they will probably come out tougher and smarter. I mean, alot of adults lose their shit because somebody trashed them in a facebook post. There's going to be a day where we laugh at somebody being that thin-skinned. In what reality do you live in? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
James Skywalker 528 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Just now, Cookester15 said: In what reality do you live in? The relative one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,227 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, Cookester15 said: In what reality do you live in? The observable one. I don't get my picture of reality from somebody telling another person on a video podcast. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, jehurey said: The observable one. I don't get my picture of reality from somebody telling another person on a video podcast. Your post was like you are posting from another dimension and somehow it's appearing in this one. Do you seriously believe what you wrote? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, Cookester15 said: Your post was like you are posting from another dimension and somehow it's appearing in this one. Do you seriously believe what you wrote? I think it's pretty clear that Jerry resides in another dimension. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madmaltese★ 2,550 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 SM is one of the worst things to ever happen in modern tech. It's true effects probably won't even be evident till multiple generations. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,608 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 I'm 37 and it's shocking when I actually think how things have changed from when I was a kid to how kids are now . And sadly how some adults are . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 Hey parents. If your kid needs a phone get this Seriously, do them a favor. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MalaXmaS 646 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Social Media is absolutely dangerous. One wrong thing you say and you are done for. Imagining Guiltyspark going on his usual racist ramblings on facebook or GD joking about killing people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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