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re: Do you think social media has changed people (especially the youth)?
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:17 pm to Willie Stroker
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:17 pm to Willie Stroker
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Since the advent of TV, each generation is shaped by pop culture influences, based on the notions of an older generation of producers
Social interaction will be vastly different in 2030, and today's youth will lament the younger generation as well.
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Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:18 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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There's no doubt it's changed people. I'm not sure there's a real argument here. Hell, my whole generation was moved by the changes in social media.
Are you under the impression they weren't attention whores until technology caused them to become that way?
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:20 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Social interaction will be vastly different in 2030, and today's youth will lament the younger generation as well.
Right. And they'll blame them for the "problems" they created.
The original "everybody gets a trophy" generation is the generation that imposed it on the youth. But we never hear them admit it, do we? I
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:22 pm to Willie Stroker
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Are you under the impression they weren't attention whores until technology caused them to become that way?
I'm certainly under the impression that attention whoring has become far more socially acceptable.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:26 pm to schwartzy
It's makes people tell the world all of their problems. And other people's problems, too. A lot of people have no sense of privacy anymore. I've gotten into a few blow out arguments with family/friends who posted things I told them in confidence.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:51 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I'm certainly under the impression that attention whoring has become far more socially acceptable.
I agree. Elvis pushed the boundaries of attention whoring. His fans loved it, but their parents hated it.
His fans then became parents and conveniently forgot what they helped promote.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 12:57 pm to Willie Stroker
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Are you under the impression they weren't attention whores until technology caused them to become that way?
I'm under that impression, at least for some. I'm sure many attention whores have been able to up their attention whores game with the Advent of social media, but I also think it has created some also.
Think about it. Millions of kids grow up seeing that it's ok to be an attention whore. They see people constantly posting mundane shite about their lives, even their idols. You think they aren't going to copy it?
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:00 pm to rintintin
I saw a few 10-12 year old kids snap chatting the whole time in the waiting area of the barbershop the other day. Generation Z or whatever they're being called is going to be weird as frick.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:17 pm to Grandioso
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I think the cellphone has changed people more than anything. It is such a powerful tool. People, mainly the youth, are obsessed with it and struggle to part with it for more than a couple of hours.
I agree with this. One of the big things before cell phones was the need for social groups to have a permanent meeting place. People hung out at the same bar, restaurant, or at the mall so their friends would no where to find them. People made concrete plans because they were harder to cancel.
Now, everyone has cell phones and no land lines. They are available literally 24/7. so if they don't respond you "KNOW" that they are shunning or avoiding you. They can cancel plans at a moment's notice. Kids no longer have set meeting places because they can track each other in real time via texts and check-ins.
Taking a kid's phone away in 2017 is tantamount to taking their landline and confining them to their home back in the 80's. They are completely cut off from the infrastructure that children use to communicate and plan gatherings, often at a moment's notice. They are completely isolated. Of course they will freak out. Outside of talking to someone face to face in person, they have no means of communicating with anyone. And without their phone, they won't be able to find where their friends physically are (outside of school) in order to talk to them.
Social media and cell phones do a lot of harm, but taking them away has similar devastating consequences. You're kinda boned either way.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:18 pm to schwartzy
It has obviously affected people. We are far more narcissistic than we've ever been. I also think some of the rise of anxiety and depression is due to social media, and not understanding you're not actually seeing a real life, just the best parts of like 100 people.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:20 pm to schwartzy
I'd say it's conditioned people to view themselves through a third-person lens whereas historically most would only even be able to see the world in the first-person. A sort of hyper-self consciousness.
This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:27 pm to schwartzy
It changed people just like video games/computers did.
Hell, TV changed people first.
It's just the evolution of technology.
Years ago people were reading newspapers all day, then gathering around the radio, then the tv, then cable, then AOL, then google, then myspace, now fb/insta/twitter.
Something will come next and replace social media.
Hell, TV changed people first.
It's just the evolution of technology.
Years ago people were reading newspapers all day, then gathering around the radio, then the tv, then cable, then AOL, then google, then myspace, now fb/insta/twitter.
Something will come next and replace social media.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:41 pm to rintintin
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Think about it. Millions of kids grow up seeing that it's ok to be an attention whore. They see people constantly posting mundane shite about their lives, even their idols. You think they aren't going to copy it?
Considering we see ancient versions of selfies in Egypt and attention whoring of epic proportions in the form of pyramids, I don't think we'll ever expect to see a time when attention whores won't be trying to document their significance.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:45 pm to schwartzy
Yes. It's disgusting too. I'm 26 and decided to change career paths a couple years ago. Currently in nursing school and need to have a facebook page in order to stay up to date with stuff for class. I wish I could delete it. Nothing but libs crying and complaining. Seems like only a small percentage even use it for the intended purpose. Just a bunch of whining and complaining.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:12 pm to Willie Stroker
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Considering we see ancient versions of selfies in Egypt and attention whoring of epic proportions in the form of pyramids, I don't think we'll ever expect to see a time when attention whores won't be trying to document their significance
I didn't say social media invented attention whores, I said it made them much more prevalent. I don't know how that can be denied.
The Egyptians building pyramids really has nothing to do with my point, which basically is now every 12 year old now has a global platform to attention whore. That has never been true in the history of the world. I don't know how that even came up in discussion
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Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:13 pm to schwartzy
Jared Poche gets the ball for LSU, one win away from tying the school record for victories
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:20 pm to schwartzy
It's definitely made the girls sluttier. They see sluts like the Kardashians getting all this attention, so they follow suit. That's not just youth though. Women in their late 20s and early 30s are just as bad.
And people have warped their minds to believe that social media likes mean something. They don't
And people have warped their minds to believe that social media likes mean something. They don't
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:20 pm to schwartzy
Yes, and the narcissm is ruinning society.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:26 pm to LCA131
Was at a concert last week and several people around me couldn't have enjoyed the show much. Too busy recording everything.
It's borderline insane..
It's borderline insane..
This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:29 pm to schwartzy
Social Media is the beginning of the end.
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