Thread: A Telling Story of Youth Today

Originally Posted by Bruno

That's my point. You don't know who those people are, but you will know their stupidest and most embarassing things as soon as you type just their name in google, as will every recruiter or boss who'll ever hire them.

Btw, I don't know how old you are, but I still belong to a generation where pictures were taken only on special occasions such as holidays. On the occasions where I did really stupid stuff, noone had a camera with him

My family had the camera; we just could not afford the film, except for holidays. If you shot 10 photos of the family cat or the bird in the tree, out the window, you got smacked.

Glad digital came along.

Originally Posted by Bruno

On the occasions where I did really stupid stuff, noone had a camera with him

Without pictures it never happened.

Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

Without pictures it never happened.

That's my point exactly

Wow, Bruno-I just google those names. And you're right-thank God there was not internet before I was 30! But as far as I'm concerned, the bully got what he deserved. IIRC, he was the skinny little punk who got body-slammed by the chubby kid in that Australian video, right? I hate a bully-let every one of 'em get an internet scarlet letter, I say.

BTW: I'm lucky, I guess. You can google my name and get pages and pages of pro, college, and high school football players, all of whom apparently have my name!

It's not that the bully didn't get what was coming to him, but let's be honest: it was childhood bullying; not something that should cling to your name until the day you day. We all have our youthful sins. But we change. We are not that person anymore. It's called growing up, and it's the reason that juvenile records are closed.

The bully got slammed. And he got punished by his parents and the school. A couple of years later, he most likely would have grown up and become a responsible (more or less) young adult, being shaped by his actions and the consequences thereof.

We all did some juvenile stuff. And 99% of us learned that it was wrong and we grew up.
And we got lucky enough that whenever we talk with a recruiter or boss, google will bring up nothing that will shame us as badly as we 'deserve'

I completely agree with you Bruno. The problem that we have today is the resilience that we have towards learning. If anybody knows Spanish you should listen to this tango called "cambalache" which reflects how the moral standards have been changing since the earlier part of the last century. In essence talks about how today the morally upright are seen as old fashioned and non practical individuals, and how deviant behavior is not frown upon anymore and is seen as a symbol of individuality. It seems that we want to exercise every single right that we have with out thinking of its consequences (recreational use of marijuana).

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Vlad, I made that statement in jest,,,,,,,

I realised, And I was agreeing with you in my statement ;-)

People complain WAAAY too much about "young people" and "Youth" not realising that they're looking at it through the glasses of experience and the foggy but pleasant glasses of nostalgic feeling.

Here is part of the problem with youth today IMO.
Wife and I went out to dinner last night.Sitting at the table next to us were two young 30ish couples,at the other end of the table were 4 children.
Maybe 4/7 yrs old,Every one of them had an ipad.
All thru dinner the kids were allowed to do whatever you do on an ipad,The parents were in convo never paying any atten to the kids.
Was almost like the ipads were babysitters.
I found it rather disgusting,but thats just me.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Was almost like the ipads were babysitters.
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Have you seen the cost of a babysitter for 4 kids lately, I think ipads are cheaper.

Amongst my teenage students iPads and smart phones are like heroin for kids. They fidget terribly without them and would rather endure harsh physical punishment than relinquish their phone for a few minutes. These devices, while very handy when used properly, are leaving the next generation as unimaginative zombies who can't function without their minutely; and I don't mean small; fix.