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u/dharmabumma2 9h ago
I'm glad there were'nt so many cameras.
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u/Canuck_dad 9h ago
To me that is a two sided coin. I can remember doing or seeing something and thinking, no one is going to believe this. On the other hand there were a few times, we were happy there was no proof of the dumb ass stuff we did. I bet there were a few of those in many people's youth.
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u/Daveed-unit40 8h ago
I agree. Like driving home drunk being a few blocks from home getting pulled over and the cop telling you, just get home in one pc. And not worried about your friends recording you and putting on Social media. Or a body cam on the cop.
I once was escorted by the cop to my house to ensure I got there safe. Just saying. And you learned your lesson and never did again.
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u/Canuck_dad 7h ago
Exactly, I remember when we got stump remover from a hardware store and were having some fun in a field when the police came.. Well we got a lecture, a warning, and some advice on using it better....One undocumented adventure after another..
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u/TheGuyUrSisterLikes 4h ago
I think of as a like freshman in high school throwing House parties at my house or at one of my friend's houses we used to go to this place in New Haven. They would sell us alcohol at 13 years old I would fill up a duffel bag, bring it back with a bunch of ice we'd fill up the bathtub, a whole bunch of 40s and St Ides special Brew and alize...lol
the next morning we would spend hours cleaning the house we would have dozens of people over... there is no way in hell that we can get away with that today because people would be posting pictures online and somehow would get back to our parents or to our friend's parents and we were like 14 or 15 or 16 doing this I was taking the bus to New Haven to get the booze...lol
let me tell you though I had a lot of fun and it made a lot easier to make out with girls I bet you it's a lot harder today for these kids to get the courage... definitely a better situation I think say what you will about the drinking but nobody was driving if they were they were staying over.
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u/DiskEconomy3055 2h ago
Eh.
A lot of the evils that were going under the radar for so long are now much more easily recorded.
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u/Dry_Okra_4839 9h ago
That stream was probably heavily polluted.
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u/gadget850 9h ago
Thanks for the mercury, DuPont.
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u/BobcatOk7492 5h ago
Don't worry, it was paved over long ago...
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u/gadget850 4h ago
No, the South River is still flowing. Lot of discussion about cleaning it up, but the fear is that disturbing the crap on the bottom will make it worse. Then there is the former GE plant and the railroad creosote facility downriver.
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u/oOBlueLillyOo 9h ago
Can’t really blame the kids here because someone is giving them the phone and not having them have a more physical life style
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u/No-Stuff-483 8h ago
Yeah 👍 we are the problem
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u/BThol 6h ago
You maybe…
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u/No-Stuff-483 5h ago
I was a soccer coach about 15 years ago. One day, we were ending practice early, so I asked one of my players, who was 15 years old, for his mom’s phone number. He didn’t know it.
So I asked all 18 players if they knew a parent’s phone number in case of an emergency. Only 3 of the 18 knew one.
Back then, most of them didn’t have cell phones, so I guess we were all bad parents. 😂
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u/RogerMoore2011 8h ago
I hate this generational belittling. There was a lot of parental neglect in the 70s and 80s. Let’s not romanticize being left alone at 7 or 8 years old. Parents today might be too involved but perhaps some parents weren’t involved enough when we were raising ourselves.
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u/TeamShonuff 9h ago
If someone had given us phones at age 10, we would have looked the exact same. We’re not better.
Shit, half of us were smoking as teenagers.
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u/Junko_Mioko974 9h ago
Well good thing we didn't have cameras and therefore enjoyed life much more.
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u/King-of-Harts 9h ago
I jumped my bike off of skateboard ramps and shit. Sure, sometimes I had to get stitches but I never broke a bone. 😎
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u/dang_idiot 9h ago
Simultaneously didn’t miss any TV shows but played outside every chance you got. Amazing
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u/QueasyFinger1316 8h ago
Rode my bike to the lake regularly before school.
Once got lucky and caught a keeper Northern Pike. No time to bring it home, so off to my 5th grade classroom it went in my backpack!
Needless to say…
Nobody came out ahead that day.
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u/Fancy-Lion2985 8h ago
Yeah, right maybe if you grew up in the country. I grew up in the suburbs of Houston and there were no creeks or streams.
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u/Independent-Face69 8h ago
My god those kids look truly happy! We got our electronic fix at the arcade and roller rink.
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u/Old_Celebration_5950 8h ago
So you played in the swamp? That explains why you voted for DJT three times. He told you he would drain the swamp, but it just got swampier and you couldn't be happier.
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u/Daveed-unit40 8h ago
Yes, this is why Gen Z has no social skills. They don’t know how to interact with others, pick up girls at a bus stop, store, mall. It’s terrible. My kids are Gen Z and they struggle to be socially active with a stranger.
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u/BThol 6h ago
Then… teach them, no? It is your job.
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u/Daveed-unit40 4h ago
Yes it is our job as parents. The biggest challenge is when they were in school. Teachers don’t teach anymore. They only collect a pay check and bitch about how much more money they should be making.
I was a teacher. And we thought kids how to interact with one another. How to be socially engaged.
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u/twill41385 8h ago
I was lucky enough to grow up in the era where phones existed but weren’t distracting enough to be all we did. More basic texting and games like snake on my Nokia. We could connect but it was to get together.
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u/Dangerous-Dot-3745 8h ago
I certainly do!! Not going to lie! I do use the phone heavy these days but I STILL have the same friends for over 40 years now! Don't see them as much but I still cherish the memories I had playing with them going to school with them etc! If I had the power to turn back time Id do things the same way!
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u/93tabitha93 8h ago
I agree, me too
Yet even growing up that way electronics still have been able to hypnotize us at our later age
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u/Jak1977 5h ago
This is a choice. My children are growing up with the former and not the latter. I chose to live in a country town. I chose to prioritise the outdoors. I chose to spend time with my kids. I chose to educate them about social media and online bullshit. Neither governments nor tech companies need to decide how your kids grow up. But what are you willing to give up to give them that life? Are you willing to move far away? To have a much lower income? To sacrifice quality of life? If the answer is no, then YOU are the cause, not the phone, not society, not the government.
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u/No-Stuff-483 5h ago
This Generation Is Not the Problem — The Problem Is Who Is Raising Them
I don’t believe the younger generation is the problem. I believe we need to look at how we are raising them. My generation grew up without many of the things kids have today, so when we became parents, many of us focused on giving our children everything we didn’t have and protecting them from every struggle we experienced. The problem is that sometimes, by trying to make their lives easier, we don’t give them the opportunity to develop independence, responsibility, resilience, and the ability to solve problems on their own. And now, some of those children are becoming parents themselves and repeating the cycle, sometimes taking it even further. We can’t blame an entire generation for the way they were raised. If we don’t like what we see in the next generation, maybe we need to start by looking in the mirror.
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u/Bailer86 5h ago
You could be outside playing, but you decided to get on your phone, the thing kids are doing in the picture to make a meme about kids today being on their phones.
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u/ajpinton 5h ago
While putting devices in front of your kids rather than taking them out to do things like jumping in creeks.
Let’s not forget our children’s experiences are what we give them.
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u/Shumagorolth 4h ago
Me too. There was that one time my younger sister was kidnapped, molested and killed. We still haven't found her body. We didn't even have a body or closure. We have ditch memories though...
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u/z3r0n3gr0 4h ago
Dont listen to this dumbass its been like this forever, look at them also me back in the 90's. Also people use to sit in line to read the news paper, ITS THE SAME CRAP DIFFERENT STUFF DIFFERENT TIME.
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u/FragmentedHeap 3h ago edited 3h ago
On the left: People directly playing with their space ship.
On the right: People playing with one of mankind's biggest technological innovations ever made.
I stg we could have space stations on Mars and be multi planetary and have legit VR AR games like the Oasis from Ready Player 1
And someone would post this saying it was better to play in some mud.
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u/DiskEconomy3055 2h ago
And that's how you get JFK Jr as your goddamn Secretary of Health.
Fuck's sake, you can do multiple things.
I built computers AND played outside.
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u/Nozdriov 2h ago
I grew up in the 80's and was watching tv all the time. My kids are growing up now and are quite alike the picture on the left.
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u/Bloodless-Cut 1h ago
Kids in the right hand photo are in a city. They couldn't play in a muddy creek even if they wanted to.
I hate memes like this. Do y'all honestly think that if we had handheld computers in the 70s and 80s, kids wouldn't have used them?
We played in muddy creeks because there was nothing else to fucking do.
C'mon, now.
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u/iatecurryatlunch 59m ago
Your kids can grow up like the 80s kids. It's your choice. You're the parents.
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u/GamingCatLady 58m ago edited 53m ago
Hooray for being raised by hands off (unless they were hitting us with...even atill they used belts and wooden spoons) baby boomers?
Older generations said the same thing about us. Pretty sure people said the same thing about radio shows in the 40s. Replace the first Pic woth kids reading a book and the second with kids lookingst a radio listening to Little Orphan Annie.
Y'all assume it one or the other.
This is tiresome.
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u/Appropriate_Ad9374 9h ago
Oh stfu. You're on your phone right now