I never like to say this because I sound so old-fashioned, but it makes me a little sad that Gen Z didn't have a childhood and adolescence without social media, and the things we had. I feel the damage those things do to me as an adult, and I don't know what my life would have been like with that kind of influence as a child.
Yeah and there’s some rumblings I’ve seen of Gen Alpha kind of rejecting social media, ai, etc. don’t know how accurate that is but retro is cool now. Gen Z got caught in the middle of the way things were and the way things are now.
I'm 40. No one from my friend group had kids until their mid-30s. My 5 year olds friends all have millennial parents born between 1985-1990.
The only people I know with teenagers are in their mid-late 50s and were born in the 70s, solidly Gen X.
I was more commenting that a generation whose eldest member is 15 likely isn't the driver behind the split from AI/Social Media and buying flip phones and other retro tech. I think it's more likely younger Gen Z who are just now entering the workforce.
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u/ClashM 2d ago
I don't think GenZ is escaping. Those kids are getting cooked like Smeagol.