True or false: Having a childhood before social media took over was a such a blessing.

[Kasgoinjail]

True

Actually having to catch a cute guys eye and him leaving u little notes in ur school tray or him telling his friend that knows your friend to tell u he's feeling u, instead of just sliding in to dms lol

 

[I'm Blackman]

I agree.

 

[Stuntone]

I think growing with social media almost makes you different socially and culturally. Almost as if you came from a different country.




That's why we look at these young people like WTF??

 

[JLova]

Agreed. Social media age has been shyt.

 

[Pure Water]

Most definitely. MySpace took off when I was in middle school, but it was something you checked and put down. It didn’t consume your life like social media today does. We spent a lot of time outside miles away from home growing up where I’m from. Just used to ride bikes to different neighborhoods and bullshyt around. I miss my childhood.

 

[Scaaar]

Definitely! I think the saying is "ignorance is bliss." It's just too much information being fed to people on a consistent basis. The only info back then was what was going on in the neighborhood. Even dating was much simpler back then because brehs and females weren't exposed to so many different options. We used to go outside in the morning and don't come back until the street lights came on. Also the internet I started off with was the AOL discs so there was no use even trying to surf or pull up a page

 

[Phantum]

I agree. How else would I have dated different chicks from different high schools and not get caught

 

[patscorpio]

Facts

 

[AngryBaby]

I mean idk man, to this day i barely use social media. And I have a robust group of friends and social life. I've fukked lots of girls, and currently find myself in a relationship in doing that. Which is rare for me.

Social media didnt really aid any of this. Maybe a few smashes threw tinder.

Seeking out fun & social jobs, and living in a big city did help this though alot.

Ive used forums to educate myself and converse in subjects with people across the world from 2004 onward. So i got a fix that way, and feel it expanded my mind in many ways. Whereas I saw FB and such as an echo chamber where you only communicated with those already near you. And twitter was limited in communication, So what was the point?

I felt like I was ahead of the curve, and normies who didnt really know how to take advantage of the internet, used social media platforms primarily.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

false. I agree

 

[Software]

Absolutely. I think about it often. Just simple things like having a breakup. Breh lmao I would’ve been a mess had social media existed back then . Stalking her page and shyt when I should’ve been doing homework.

My daughter isn’t old enough to be on yet but it’s something I’m worried about. Her mom been posting them together in pics so she’s keenly aware of what it is. I’m actually usually the lax parent but on this Imma probably have to be a tyrant. Social media is having a lot of adverse affects on kids.

Lots of young girls are experiencing unhappiness with themselves because they don't look like the fake shyt on social media as well. Crazy those feelings will last a long time. I've noticed lots of women I went to college with now got all kinds of face fillers and botox and we ain't even 30 yet...

 

[Legal]

Hard agree.

I look at what social media is doing to the confidence and mindstate of some of the people out here, and get depressed.

How in the fukk did we gain ways to communicate with people literally anywhere, and dating somehow got exponentially HARDER?

How did we manage to get access to almost unlimited knowledge and points of view, and end up overall being more myopic, and less accepting?

shyt is crazy.

 

[TheGreatMTB]

I'm torn because on one hand I didn't have the same social pressure and I spent a lot more time outside. Social skills were better and people linked up.

On the other hand, if I take off the rose tinted glasses I spent a lot of time bored. Kids today never have a reason to be bored, they have all the memes and entertainment in the world. Also if I were a kid today, I'd probably have made some money somehow. Youtube. Gaming. Writing. Art. A teenager with a hobby can make some serious money, because they have a lot of time on their hands.

A lot of people make the argument the socials make kids stupid, not the case. I remember someone in high school organized a fight club for us, and bought boxing gloves and protective headwear. Stupidity trumps social media.

 

[re'up]

A good read about this is The Chaos Machine from last year, mostly Facebook, but all of it

To write a concise response, I will say that I think social skills and social interactions have changed a lot. The sheer distance that digital communication can put between us, while making you feel "closer", the idea that a phone call has become like a rarity (in many cases), I think it's made a lot of people more neourotic, insecure, closed off, while all the while existing under the guise of transparency and positivity

The absurdity of reducing complex conversations down to 140 or less characters text messages or social media posts or even emoji's. Ever thought about sending a text message, only to realize you can't possibly get it under, lets say 5 sentences? Because that would look nuts. That's social media influence.

What the book really really hit on for me, was the idea that the entire system is flawed, because of how it works, on a basic level, it's not to make you smarter, or connect you, it's to drive engagement, and what drives engagement? Conflict. Anger. Division. it's the medium, not the message. It's not "evil", it's just about profits. Not anything else.

And this occurred to me even more sharply last week, the idea that social media/tech is just a slot machine, scrolling through people to date, scrolling though posts of your friends, scrolling through memes, waiting for that dopamine hit.

I don't do ANY of that, but still, just the concept of TEXTING has has that feature to it, right?

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

it’s true