The part near the start about things not being permanent. We can get back to that, people simply need to collectively get over the fact that people do dumb shit sometimes. We, as a society, used to know this. You would get ragged on for a bit, then it was simply a funny story years later you and your friends re-tell while you laugh at how dumb you all were.
We also forgot one should not use their real name online. That is still the biggest WTF to me.
Overall I agree with yourself and the original reply, I recall Will Smith (not my usual go to reference) being asked about the stupid esoteric bullshit his son was always posting - his reply was basically, thank God Twitter wasn’t around when he was young, people just forget the shit you did.
We should definitely get over people doing dumb shit sometimes, however people often try to pass things off as just dumb shit, when it’s actually a pattern of behaviour. Personally I think it’s about accepting that people can learn and change, maybe you posted something stupid 10 years ago, are you still doing it? Can you reflect and say that was a bad choice? This is how I look at it.
Yeah I think when it’s a bunch of adults brigading against a 15 year old who did some dumb shit and it got caught on video it’s gone way too far. Let the parents, teachers whoever is actually involved with the situation deal with the kid.
I’ve seen some ridiculous stuff on reddit with people vying for kids to be beat up over, honestly, stupid stuff but not dissimilar to crap I did at that age. When I got caught I was just disciplined by my folks, grounded or something.
Some of that stuff IS funny to look back on - because it wasn’t caught on video and you can choose your audience to reminisce with like jfc what was I thinking, funny but damn that was a dumb/dangerous thing to do. In my 30s and still finding silly stories to tell my folks about shit I did they never know about. We roll our eyes, have a laugh or a omg, and thank god that I grew up alright 😅
The problem is that you can’t do stupid shit without creating a permanent video record. You can’t say stupid shit online without creating a permanent record. I don’t miss being as stupid as I was when I was younger but I do miss the freedom, knowing that there was a limit to the consequences of your actions. Every single thing I said and did was not preserved in searchable form, to potentially come back and haunt me for the rest of my life. You have to be so careful nowadays and you have to internalize that as a fact of life. You are being watched and recorded, for ever.
It’s not like someone from most friends groups will upload every embarrassing thing… Things aren’t so different maybe you’re just old and the young people don’t tell you the shit they do
The part near the start about things not being permanent. We can get back to that, people simply need to collectively get over the fact that people do dumb shit sometimes. We, as a society, used to know this. You would get ragged on for a bit, then it was simply a funny story years later you and your friends re-tell while you laugh at how dumb you all were.
We also forgot one should not use their real name online. That is still the biggest WTF to me.
Overall I agree with yourself and the original reply, I recall Will Smith (not my usual go to reference) being asked about the stupid esoteric bullshit his son was always posting - his reply was basically, thank God Twitter wasn’t around when he was young, people just forget the shit you did.
We should definitely get over people doing dumb shit sometimes, however people often try to pass things off as just dumb shit, when it’s actually a pattern of behaviour. Personally I think it’s about accepting that people can learn and change, maybe you posted something stupid 10 years ago, are you still doing it? Can you reflect and say that was a bad choice? This is how I look at it.
Yeah I think when it’s a bunch of adults brigading against a 15 year old who did some dumb shit and it got caught on video it’s gone way too far. Let the parents, teachers whoever is actually involved with the situation deal with the kid.
I’ve seen some ridiculous stuff on reddit with people vying for kids to be beat up over, honestly, stupid stuff but not dissimilar to crap I did at that age. When I got caught I was just disciplined by my folks, grounded or something.
Some of that stuff IS funny to look back on - because it wasn’t caught on video and you can choose your audience to reminisce with like jfc what was I thinking, funny but damn that was a dumb/dangerous thing to do. In my 30s and still finding silly stories to tell my folks about shit I did they never know about. We roll our eyes, have a laugh or a omg, and thank god that I grew up alright 😅
The problem is that you can’t do stupid shit without creating a permanent video record. You can’t say stupid shit online without creating a permanent record. I don’t miss being as stupid as I was when I was younger but I do miss the freedom, knowing that there was a limit to the consequences of your actions. Every single thing I said and did was not preserved in searchable form, to potentially come back and haunt me for the rest of my life. You have to be so careful nowadays and you have to internalize that as a fact of life. You are being watched and recorded, for ever.
It’s not like someone from most friends groups will upload every embarrassing thing… Things aren’t so different maybe you’re just old and the young people don’t tell you the shit they do
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