Weird thread tries to insult teens who were traumatized by porn

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[–]TulipPoplar 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The environment is completely different but she can't comprehend the real difference because she doesn't want to acknowledge that she isn't young anymore. The Internet I grew up with and spent a lot of time on is entirely different from the one my sister who is 10 years younger experiences now.

The shock sites she mentions, while they are pornography, were not really meant to be titillating. They were gross. Clicking a link meant to disgust you at 12 is not the same as the hyper sexualized environment that exist on Instagram or wherever. The fanfiction and roleplay sites tended to be sexually explicit but in a very unrealistic way that you would expect from a teenager who didn't really understand sex. Now teenagers get carefully produced content made by adults that tends to be very physical.

Also the internet is much more real life then it used to be. A desktop/laptop computer that sits at home that is mostly used to talk to people you don't know in real life is very different from a smart phone that you always have on you that is mostly used to talk to people you go to school with.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The environment is completely different but she can't comprehend the real difference because she doesn't want to acknowledge that she isn't young anymore. The Internet I grew up with and spent a lot of time on is entirely different from the one my sister who is 10 years younger experiences now.

This. I remember being a teenager on AOL chat doing the a/s/l thing. There were predators online back then but I regarded the online space as much more of a fantasy realm/ abstraction. We didn't have cell phones and web cams and we had limited access in any case, so it was easier to create a mental barrier between the online space and real life. We don't have that barrier now with social media. If you're getting dogpiled on Twitter or Facebook it's hard to ignore it and walk away.

Hortense strikes me as someone who says and does a lot of inappropriate things on the internet, likely involving minors, and doesn't want to be accountable for it.

[–]lefterfield 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

EXACTLY. When I was growing up, a computer was just a tool to do homework and play games, for the most part. Yes, there were chat rooms and porn and all manner of gross and offensive things - but you had to seek that stuff out. It ended when I walked away from the computer or clicked on a different page and waited 10 minutes for it to load. Social media was not a thing, and true-r anonymity made for a completely different experience than kids face today. This woman is full of shit and lacking in basic empathy.