I’m glad I grew up in the time that I did , in the 70s. I don’t know, mentally, how I would have coped to at way my kids do with social media.
Just saw that Dove social media commercial and it gave me snots. This world is so messed up due to social media.
As new parents in today’s world, there is so much more to manage because of social media. I wish everyone the best
Here’s something I have noticed. Lots of kids I know are on social media a lot less now.
My daughters definitly use Snapchat and Instagram to communicate amongst their peers, but they seem to have very little interest in following strangers, or communicating with strangers at all.
They seem to be aware of much of the online pitfalls now, it’s a Wild West for sure, but the kids are adapating.
It reminds me of the early years of facebook, and even Twitter. Everyone was connecting, sharing their life monilogues, posting picture of everything, posting tweets all the time… And now? Most people I know stopped doing any of that, with the most extreme dropping social media accounts all together. Before dropping most of my ‘friends list’ on Facebook my page became the story of like two people, no one else posted, or cared about their oversharing.
There‘s always a push back. I wonder if social media being so toxic is a consequence of so many positive folks just not being there anymore. Just like the guy constantly complaining eventually gets ignored in the work place, social media allows all of that to congregate together, and it’s the other folk who tend to leave after a while, because in the end it serves no purpose beyond brining you down.
Kids are like that too, lots of them have zero interest in shitty online behaviour, and they tend to band together.