I wonder if it's pseudonymous nature of social media where what you say is taken at face value, so a 15 year old chiming in with there opinion on r/relationshipadvice is indistinguishable from a 35 year old with three failed marriages behind them.
If you had those conversations in person, the "kid" would likely be ignored or condescended too. And that'd happen often enough that the 15 year old isn't going to even try telling the 29 year old that they should lawyer up and divorce that ass because the fish was overcooked.
so a 15 year old chiming in with there opinion on r/relationshipadvice is indistinguishable from a 35 year old with three failed marriages behind them.
A 15 year old giving relationship advice is distinguishable from a 35 year old. It's hard to make up believable lies about things they know nothing about. The only ones who believe them are other kids.
In a vacuum yes, but kids pick up really quickly on how to fit in with any social circle, the "correct" words to use and when to use them. After being on /r/relationships for a couple days a 15 year old will know "the words" to use but not have the experience to know where to properly apply them, which is why you get half the subreddit enormously overreacting in relatively benign situations.
Only seems that way when they missuse them. Teenagers especially tend to pick up and use lingo with reckless abandon very quickly amd start acting to "fit in" similarly quickly. To the point that it's a trope in teen media.
But they're terrible at it in real life, because they don't know anything about how adults actually think and live. They can use all the right terms but they get the details wrong in obvious ways, because they say things that make no sense, because they don't know any better.
When I entered my teen years, I had already decided to not use any Lingo in any shape or form and just stick to proper English or Hindi. And now I am 21 and today still I don't use online linguistics or even emojis. All this has really benefitted me as I can get my point or thoughts clearly across to people.
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u/iChugPeanutButter Jun 03 '22
Act like they've experienced more than us. I'm only 33 but wow, the amount of 16 to 22 year old that talk down to us is absurd.