This generation of young people are the gayest, loneliest, and most suicidal ever.

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I think a lot of that is due to them being born into social media. I’m 37 and graduated high school in 2004 before MySpace was big and Facebook was ONLY for college students (you needed a college email to sign up and couldn’t view anyone’s page unless you had an account) so my group was raised without being “connected” 24/7. They already know apps like Instagram and tik Tok lead to depression as people spend majority of their time scrolling through carefully edited photos and videos showing everyone how great their life is and it makes them depressed because they aren’t living the same great life. That generation is “alone” because they were raised to communicate through everything except actually talking to someone. You go to a bar and the younger people are there and scrolling through their phones and not even talking to the people they came with. It was maybe a month ago or so where some guy got killed on a street in front of a coffee shop (I think in Canada) and some Zoomer kid was busy recording a video of himself and the guy bleeding to the death saying things like “whoaaa this guy is dead! Look he’s dead!” And making sure his dumb face was in the video because that’s what’s important. Bunch of slack jawed faggots if you ask me

 

[Dennyislife]

I think a lot of that is due to them being born into social media. I’m 37 and graduated high school in 2004 before MySpace was big and Facebook was ONLY for college students (you needed a college email to sign up and couldn’t view anyone’s page unless you had an account) so my group was raised without being “connected” 24/7. They already know apps like Instagram and tik Tok lead to depression as people spend majority of their time scrolling through carefully edited photos and videos showing everyone how great their life is and it makes them depressed because they aren’t living the same great life. That generation is “alone” because they were raised to communicate through everything except actually talking to someone. You go to a bar and the younger people are there and scrolling through their phones and not even talking to the people they came with. It was maybe a month ago or so where some guy got killed on a street in front of a coffee shop (I think in Canada) and some Zoomer kid was busy recording a video of himself and the guy bleeding to the death saying things like “whoaaa this guy is dead! Look he’s dead!” And making sure his dumb face was in the video because that’s what’s important. Bunch of slack jawed faggots if you ask me

My grandparents are the most socially busy people I know. They are in their 80s. They'll phone saying they are going out while I am getting ready for bed.

 

[FranksWirecutters]

I mean there was this study. It's the CNN link but there's others reporting it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/15/tech/tiktok-teens-study-trnd/index.html

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I think it’s also how people (especially younger) are severely addicted to their smart phones. I can’t tell you how many times Ive seen people walking around while looking down at their phone the whole time. They can’t even put it down to walk and watch where they are going and what are they looking at? Scrolling through Facebook / Instagram / tik tok, etc. I see guys that can’t even stop to put their phone down while they’re pissing at a urinal.

 

[Harry Powell]

I think it’s also how people (especially younger) are severely addicted to their smart phones. I can’t tell you how many times Ive seen people walking around while looking down at their phone the whole time. They can’t even put it down to walk and watch where they are going and what are they looking at? Scrolling through Facebook / Instagram / tik tok, etc. I see guys that can’t even stop to put their phone down while they’re pissing at a urinal.

I like looking at my phone at the urinal.

I’m a cell phone addict. I tried to go back to a dumb phone. It’s brutal. Maybe I should do it again though. I remember life before all this shit. I don’t know if it was better or worse but I was 1000% more present and social.

 

[wbgreen]

They literally skipped right over Generation X. Whatever.

A Gen X-er should have been president for the past decade, but they keep getting cucked by senile old Boomers.

 

[Imager]

I like looking at my phone at the urinal.

I’m a cell phone addict. I tried to go back to a dumb phone. It’s brutal. Maybe I should do it again though. I remember life before all this shit. I don’t know if it was better or worse but I was 1000% more present and social.

Aside from the experience that age brings, life was 100% better.

 

[Dennyislife]

A Gen X-er should have been president for the past decade, but they keep getting cucked by senile old Boomers.

George w bush and Clinton are younger than the current and former us presidents by a few months in trumps case and years in Bidens and both are ancient history

 

[EraGodless]

I think it’s also how people (especially younger) are severely addicted to their smart phones. I can’t tell you how many times Ive seen people walking around while looking down at their phone the whole time. They can’t even put it down to walk and watch where they are going and what are they looking at? Scrolling through Facebook / Instagram / tik tok, etc. I see guys that can’t even stop to put their phone down while they’re pissing at a urinal.

Motherfuckers in parking lots and stores are the worst. Look up, asshole. A fucking car is coming, dummy. Your hentai porn or stupid insta will be there later. Complete retards.

Atleast here in San Antonio, you can get a ticket if you are staring at your phone and in a crosswalk. Too many tards were getting runover because they were looking down and not realizing they didn't have the right of way- light was red.

 

[EraGodless]

A Gen X-er should have been president for the past decade, but they keep getting cucked by senile old Boomers.

It's about that time. Some X'ers are getting ready to hit 60. Gen X is a weird bunch. They are mostly the parent's of the sexually confused Zoomers. It's like they're overcorrecting the lack of attention their parents gave them. There were times I didn't care for being a latchkey kid, but when thinking about it, even the rich kids I knew kind of had to raise themselves as well-- it wasn't just middle class and poor kids. Plus, in hindsight, being able to leave your house in the morning and not being expected to be back by sundown was pretty rad. No one cared really where you were or what you were doing-- just don't get arrested and don't require a trip to the emergency room.

You would think a lot of Gen X parent's would want to give their kids a bit of freedom instead of having apps to track their every movements--- also, there were many more creeps/sex offenders in the 70's to early 90's because sex offender lists didn't exist. Our parents didn't seem to concerned. They usually just gave us a heads up on who the town creeps were and to avoid strangers/vans.

 

[KaNAMBLA Harris]

I know you are but what am I

 

[Harry Powell]

It's about that time. Some X'ers are getting ready to hit 60. Gen X is a weird bunch. They are mostly the parent's of the sexually confused Zoomers. It's like they're overcorrecting the lack of attention their parents gave them. There were times I didn't care for being a latchkey kid, but when thinking about it, even the rich kids I knew kind of had to raise themselves as well-- it wasn't just middle class and poor kids. Plus, in hindsight, being able to leave your house in the morning and not being expected to be back by sundown was pretty rad. No one cared really where you were or what you were doing-- just don't get arrested and don't require a trip to the emergency room.

You would think a lot of Gen X parent's would want to give their kids a bit of freedom instead of having apps to track their every movements--- also, there were many more creeps/sex offenders in the 70's to early 90's because sex offender lists didn't exist. Our parents didn't seem to concerned. They usually just gave us a heads up on who the town creeps were and to avoid strangers/vans.

I somewhat disagree. My parents were young boomers and they essentially left me completely alone with almost no parental guidance. Not only did this leave me with no understanding of life or how to navigate it, but it also allowed me to get into so many life-threatening / horrifically dangerous situations I cannot imagine ever letting my son be in them.

There is a terrifying feeling to be say, 10 years old, in a super dangerous situation, and realize that you are completely on your own to save yourself.

Perhaps GenX is overdoing it, but I think parental involvement in a child’s life is a good thing.

 

[EraGodless]

I somewhat disagree. My parents were young boomers and they essentially left me completely alone with almost no parental guidance. Not only did this leave me with no understanding of life or how to navigate it, but it also allowed me to get into so many life-threatening / horrifically dangerous situations I cannot imagine ever letting my son be in them.

There is a terrifying feeling to be say, 10 years old, in a super dangerous situation, and realize that you are completely on your own to save yourself.

Perhaps GenX is overdoing it, but I think parental involvement in a child’s life is a good thing.

As I said, there were times I didn't care for it. It was amazing to hangout with friends who had parents that cared and pretty much waited on them hand and foot. I got in a lot of fucked up situations myself, but I somehow avoided drugs and alcohol and I never took the occasional loneliness and boredom personal. I grew up okay with some bumps in the road, but I'm generally happy.

What you say is true, I don't treat my 12 year old daughter like my parents did to me. I ask her questions and listen and she can always call me/talk to me whatever. I also have never cursed in front of her or really ever lost my patience with her.

When I was her age, I went to my brother's HS graduation in Texas (I lived on Long Island at the time) and we went to a mall and parents straight up left me there because they couldn't find me. I had never been to that mall or city before. Luckily, I remembered the hotel we were staying at, so I walked the few miles to it (it was already dark and late). Apparently it was my fault they just up and left me there- I can't imagine any scenario where I would do that to any child, much less my own son/daughter. As my dad loves to say, " it was a different time." Was it dad? Was it really a different time that you could abandon your kid(s) in random places abd for hours at a time?

Edit: I never really dwell on how my parents treated me or their lack of care at some of the worst times-- they did enough good abd they were decent people- just not the best parents. But they were my parents and I love them both.

Anyway, if you wind up dwelling on your parents in you and your childhood in your 40', you wind up kvetching to a shrink like Tony Soprano.