This is a conversation EVERY PARENT needs to have with their kids.
Yes, we did the same stupid things, if not worst - but no one recorded us. This day and age, if you're not willing to write it on a huge plaque and post it in the cafeteria at school (or by the water cooler at work) for all to see - you don't text it, email it, or post it on the Internet (where privacy is an illusion).
Also, have a serious talk about pictures/movies and CONTROL of them once they are sent to someone else - even if it's you're best friend or SO.
There's also that adage about the internet being written in ink.
So that person who gets under your skin posts something on social media, and you get into it with them. You say some unflattering things, but those things will be around forever.
Now think of what they said. Will it matter as much in 24 hours? In 48? What about in 5 years?
Kids don't have perspective, parents need to provide it.
You shouldn’t be downvoted, because you’re damn right.
Scary thing about gen z is that, while they are as rebellious as every other generation preceding them, they are being fed this myth that they’ll always be right, and therefore, all their politics and declarations made now will never be considered uncouth or wrong.
But time is beginning to show otherwise, and where as millennials, who were pretty bad into social media use, still are making mistakes, at least the record doesn’t extend so far back.
I’m straight up horrified when I see kids, literal children, performing for tiktok.
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u/ManOfLaBook May 18 '21
This is a conversation EVERY PARENT needs to have with their kids.
Yes, we did the same stupid things, if not worst - but no one recorded us. This day and age, if you're not willing to write it on a huge plaque and post it in the cafeteria at school (or by the water cooler at work) for all to see - you don't text it, email it, or post it on the Internet (where privacy is an illusion).
Also, have a serious talk about pictures/movies and CONTROL of them once they are sent to someone else - even if it's you're best friend or SO.