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⌈ Secret Post #3106 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Navel gazing thread.

What do you think is or will be the biggest difference between your generation and the one before yours?

What about your generation and the one after yours?

[(Anonymous)]

Ubiquitous internet.

It was around before my generation but not in a ubiquitous, 'internet is a life necessity' way. After my generation, everyone takes it for granted and can't remember a time when it wasn't around.

Every time someone my parents' age- 60 and older- complains that the world has become so much worse than it used to be when they were 20, I can't help but think that back then, they simply never heard about the terrible shit that was happening all over the world in the 50s. Newspapers and TV were much more easier to control, had much more limited space, and it's not like a million people could reach for Twitter and give you first hand accounts and photos in real time...

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[(Anonymous)]

There was no internet access in my home until right after I graduated from high school, and it was only just picking up steam as a thing people had then. Same with cell phones.

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda think the world felt maybe a little less worse back then just because everyone wasn't always so on edge about being terrified of all the terrible things that happen around the world. Like, obviously, the terrible things still happened but I think there was something to be said for focusing on yourself and your neighbourhood a bit more. I know people who just never seem happy because they're so busy being upset about things that happen on the other half of the world/country all the time, and it makes me wonder. IDEK.

And re the cell phones and stuff, it just boggles my mind how quickly that's changed. We never had internet until my last year of high school and these days little kids have cell phones and I'm just blown away by that.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh yes, 24 hour news channels and online news sites that need to have fresh content all the time have made everything look worse by sensationalizing everything all the time. I don't think the world is objectively worse, it's that we see more of it and more of the bad things because that's what gets views, then people turn around and say the world is going to Hell and lol, no.

It's weird that we're getting to a point where in maybe ~40-50 years, almost will remember not having internet, isn't it?

[(Anonymous)]

*almost nobody

[(Anonymous)]

The generation after me will be haunted by its indiscretions, since it has documented them all over the Internet, without any idea of how it will come back to bite them in the ass later.

I'm grateful that social media wasn't a thing when I was growing up. No incriminating photos or tweets or FB postings to be found. Whew.

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[(Anonymous)]

My teen years are thankfully in the past where they belong and not documented online.

[kaijinscendre]

I juusssttttt missed that generation. ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

[(Anonymous)]

What I don't get is how fast it changed, because it was like, up until 2004ish, everyone was freaking paranoid about information on the internet. I had friends who couldn't even give their first names. First names. Then a few years later ten year olds have Facebook accounts and barely anyone bats an eye. What happened? I mean, I am glad I can say I had online friends without people gasping in horror now, but for example, a friend of mine met some random person through CafeWorld, added them to FB, and naturally they ended up being creepy. But before that she said "it's like how you did it."

...except it wasn't, because no one ever knew who I was until I got to know them.

[elaminator]

Yea, I remember the days when people were paranoid as fuck about giving out personal information. (Name, address, pictures, etc.) I was and still am one of those people, but at a certain point when facebook exploded pretty much everyone I knew online was adding everyone they knew online to their accounts.

To me it seems like a disaster waiting to happen, but I know that as time goes by fewer and fewer people will share this opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS so much this

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that still kind of astounds me too. When I first joined fandom, I never would have dared to give anyone my name. Hell, I guarded my age with my life because I hung out on a lot of 18+ comms. I had pretty much a whole fabricated identity. Nowadays, there are 14 year olds who are open about their age, name, and don't give a fuck about posting porn or whatever. I've even seen people publicly post their home address on their blog. It blows my mind

[cloud_riven]

THIS

Kids are so smart these days except when it comes to the matter of how much to present of yourself on the internet. There's gotta be a word for that kind of sense of self preservation.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if it will precipitate a change in how society views this stuff. If everyone applying for the job has photos of them drunk somewhere on the internet, you can't use that as grounds not to hire someone or you'd have no employees.

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly can't think of an answer to the first one. I think my generation (I'm either a very young Gen-Xer or very old Millennial, I guess) shares a lot with my parents' generation (Baby Boomers) - more so than they share with their parents or I do with younger folks). They started using computers before I did and the internet and cell phones around the same time, but we all remember a time when cell phones and the internet were not things anyone could use. They have been vaccinated for stuff. They aren't as well-off as their parents despite being better educated. They have rebelled against the status quo.

Maybe my generation is a bit more cynical? I suppose we also didn't spend our childhoods thinking nuclear war could start at any moment, so there's that.

[(Anonymous)]

Gen X ends at 1979 and Millennial starts at born in 1980, IIRC

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I was born in October of 1979. I guess I just squeek by as Gen X?

[(Anonymous)]

If you're... 35? now? I think that would make you the tail end of Gen X

[(Anonymous)]

There isn't agreement on when Millennial starts.

[(Anonymous)]

What are kids born in, say, 1995 then?

[(Anonymous)]

Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation[1] or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends. Researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

[(Anonymous)]

I'm young Gen X myself, and our tragedy is this: We were the last generation raised to believe the American Dream was real and achievable, and the first generation of white kids for whom it wasn't.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, not the first, exactly. People coming of age during the Great Depression probably had an even nastier shock than we did. But yeah.

[tabaqui]

The 'net makes such a huge difference. When i was a kid, it didn't exist, and i only got onto a computer and was out in the WWW in the mid-nineties. Didn't have a cell phone until early 2000's. I didn't grow up online, but my daughter did, and a computer the size of an iPhone isn't a novelty to her, though I still sit and stare in awe, sometimes, at how far it's all come, so blindingly fast.

I think...we were the ones on the crest of the wave of international crap. We saw so many wars, we saw so man financial booms and busts, we saw so many horrible things. But so many *amazing* things. I think my generation was the first to really become *connected* with the world outside our own state, country, continent. We can actually talk with and interact in real-time with people around the globe, and coming from a kid who grew up in a tiny little town, and whose only connection to history and other cultures was through a tiny little library....it's so huge. I think we see the steps made and the gargantuan shift in perspective better than the generation before *or* after, because we were smack-dab in the middle of it all.