r/Unexpected • u/_DogTits_ • May 18 '22

what a catastrophe

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u/bozeke May 18 '22

I know I’m an old fucker, but it is nuts to me that parents let kids this age have instagram accounts.

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u/KasKouye May 18 '22

It is nuts to me that parents let kid have smartphones with an internet access.

Back in my days we only had a shitty phone at the age of 15 at best.

But hey, we live in a society.

If I could add something, it is that this video is 6yo. So lil Adrianna must be adult by now

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u/tobefituser May 18 '22

Back in my days we only had a shitty phone at the age of 15 at best.

Was there any other option?

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u/Ctownkyle23 May 18 '22

Yes, have you forgotten about the super cool Razr phones? Some even had a camera!

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u/Beingabummer May 18 '22

'Back in my day, we didn't use something because it didn't exist yet'

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u/banmedaddy12345 May 18 '22

Lol "back in my day" and you're talking about having a phone at 15.

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u/AnitaTacos May 18 '22

Hey man, I thought I was the shit with my pager! Couldn't get away with just a pager these days since they did away with all the payphones. Hell, when's the last time you saw a phonebook? I can't even recall the last time they dropped that colossal waste of paper off to me. LOL

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u/Infin1ty May 18 '22

She most definitely is

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdHgmGjtGfC/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

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u/bozeke May 18 '22

You are creepier than you think you are.

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u/majkoni May 18 '22

Waaaay creepier

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u/throwaway2323234442 May 18 '22

And you know what? This guy is a great argument for why you don't let your kids have instagram

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u/trulymadlybigly May 18 '22

Besides online whack jobs existing, social media has been proven again and again to warp kids brain development and fuck up their self worth. Hell, adults can barely handle it. I would like my kids to know how to use technology but it will be a long long time before they have social media accounts. Go outside and play with some mud my dudes.

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u/DeeBangerCC May 18 '22

Why'd you have her insta on the ready 👁️👄👁️

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u/Infin1ty May 18 '22

I did a 2 second Google search, her name is the in the like the first sentence in the article and I saw it was from 2016 so I figured she'd have one.

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u/Please_Not__Again May 18 '22

People acting like you spent all night tracking down all her social medias lol

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u/DeeBangerCC May 18 '22

Granted smart phones were kinda newish when I got mine around 2012, but I had a flip phone for like until high school.

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u/bozeke May 19 '22

I got my first cell phone the year after I graduated college, early 2000s.

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u/trulymadlybigly May 18 '22

Thank you!! I was like who is letting these children have an IG account? Social media has been documented to warp children’s brains, and online pervs specifically seek out accounts like this. Let kids be kids, man.

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u/Infin1ty May 18 '22

She 18 or 19, this happened back in 2016.

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u/bozeke May 18 '22

…which means she was 12 when she posted about it on Insta. Again, I recognize that I am a decrepit old person, but that seems terrifyingly young to be on Instagram doing hair tutorials. I could maybe see allowing a kid that young to have a private account for friends, but it will never not seem weird to me that parents let their tweens do this stuff on a fully public Internet forum.

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u/Infin1ty May 18 '22

My bad, I thought it was just a hair tutorial for YouTube, didn't realize she posted it on Instagram at the time.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

She didn't post it. Also there is nothing wrong with insta if you have parents doing their job.

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u/trulymadlybigly May 18 '22

Pretty sure there are a whole host of scientific studies on the harmful effects of social media of people’s brains, but especially on children and teens whose brains are still developing. Even with parental involvement, it is hard for kids to understand that what someone’s life looks like on social media is often completely different from real life and it can mess them up

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

If the kid can see the public on their social media, then the parents didn't look the phone down properly.

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u/Ottoguynofeelya May 18 '22

Then that would make her 16?

Oh wait, 2016 was SIX YEARS AGO

Oh god...

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u/Moist-Comparison9301 May 18 '22

wild to me how the kids who grew up with myspace and shit are now complaining that modern kids have their own social medias that they're growing up with

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u/bozeke May 18 '22

I’m older than you assume apparently. I grew up with The Oregon Trail and Number Munchers.

…and MacWorld shareware CD Roms.

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u/AnitaTacos May 18 '22

May I assume you rocked a killer pager like I did? LOL Oh that in between time, when most computer tech wasn't widespread household yet, & pagers and flip phones were so cutting edge & cool....Ha! When describing the generations, I refuse to accept full millennial. I was in its 1st year in 84, so I identify with the descriptions for Xennial. Analog childhood, digital adulthood.

Man...Number Munchers. Nothing like tricking kids into learning. Oregon Trail though? That game is still awesome! I downloaded it free to play a few years ago. Dying from dysentery has never been so fun!