Reddit celebrates incredible Gen Z act of bravery

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

It's funny how this generation has so much AnXIeTy about picking up a phone and engaging in normal human interactions, but can post videos of themselves at their most vulnerable to be viewed by millions.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They can retake the videos for social, and the livestreams are chock full of love-bombing as the entire generation has been taught that even the slightest, most mild criticism is soul-destroying. A phone call with a live person who might tell them something that they don’t want to hear, like criticism, is anxiety-inducing.

I have social anxiety and when I worked at my first job I used all sorts of tricks to never have to speak on the phone unless I absolutely had to, email arriving in the office was a godsend. To this day I still find it difficult to make a call to a stranger and I will rarely call friends or family and mainly rely on text messaging, yet I can stand in front of 300 children and make them laugh or tell them off and not think anything of it and meet parents for difficult conversations. My brain is weird.

[–]Horror-Swordfish 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What's wild to me in the comments section (at least on TikTok) is that they are SO QUICK to be the nastiest people to anyone that even gives a mild criticism. Like if someone says, "Oh, I don't really like the way that looks," on an interior design video, they'll get dogpiled on for "hating" or mocked for their profile or told they don't have to comment, blah blah blah.

"Only good vibes" taken to the extreme. And it's no wonder that real life induces anxiety; you can't just disappear someone saying something you don't like in the real world as easily as you can on social media.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Social media will induce anxiety. I've gotten dog pilled before for just saying innocent shit like "oh I don't really like that movie".

Best to stay off it if you can't balance it. I don't think kids can. Tough to parent them in this world now I think since most adults don't really understand or keep up with the social media that the kids are using. I certainly don't.

Can't really go the full luddite way either and ban it. Kids won't learn how to use it healthy then and it's not exactly like it's going to go away. Probably will have to do something like not letting the kids have a smartphone until they can pay for it themselves but let them faff around on the internet with minimal control provided they are generally monitored and not doing it totally in secret. Like have the computer in the common space where you can see it.

[–]Clown_Chan 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Right?

Too anxious to make a call, but not anxious at all to make video and post it on internet for literall milions of people to watch.🤡👍

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

it's the "dedicate your profile to your address+intimate details+mental conditions+allergies" meme--no opsec at all, with even the slightest difference on the politics of cartoon shows bared for the virtual village to boo and hiss

that's probably THE Xer/Millenial vs. Z/Alpha divide: both "grew up on the internet" but only one actually knows PCs: the joke is that Gen Z doesn't even know how to right-click, but their online life has been streaming video and 2-4 social-media and art sites, as opposed to cable TV and weird Web 1.0 sites (like even Tumblr's been gone for 5 years now)

part of this is actually on Apple or "Mac culture"--back when it actually made computers it was derided as the juniorized "user-friendly" black-box OS designed mainly for either Meemaw or her 4yo great-grandkids (until Windows X broke everything you could do with Win 7): its corporate strategies were literally called "evangelism marketing" and "walled garden," and they invented the whole "Think Different (but dress and style the same and have your dad pay twice as much for the same performance)," "creative peopleTM" chic

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

no opsec at all,

They don't even know the fucking word.

"Digital native" is one of the most obnoxious phrases I have ever heard; they can't even use a mouse.

You would expect such a term to be reserved for people that have brains optimized for the domain of information processing, which absolutely is not the case. They resemble zombies consuming mindless games like Fortnite.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've seen Zillennials so smartphone-bound they don't even know about saving a link

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know people that can't copy and paste on the iPhone they use every day. I'd be in favor of an IQ test like that where if you fail you just get removed from the gene pool, but unfortunately no majority can be found for that, because the majority of people are stupid. You would think that someone like that would be classified as having an intellectual disability, but no.