The most adult teenagers I know all have seen shit and just skipped being teenagers. It sadly catches up with them.
Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
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Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#12They are more likely to commit suicide as well.
I can give some perspective on that. Ignoring the increase in academic pressure and hungry sharks in education (those shady coaching institutes everywhere making you grind 5 hours after school for a single exam). Parents haven't caught up with how their kids interact with the world. Social media is huge for teens and internet which only now some parents are catching up to but they are on Facebook and Facebook is canc…
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager.
Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation, extreme polarization, and resulting anxiety.
I've personally witnessed the effect on reasonably well educated adults in my life; I can only imagine how much worse it must be for those with less general experience and knowledge.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can give some perspective on that. Ignoring the increase in academic pressure and hungry sharks in education (those shady coaching institutes everywhere making you grind 5 hours after school for a single exam). Parents haven't caught up with how their kids interact with the world. Social media is huge for teens and internet which only now some parents are catching up to but they are on Facebook and Facebook is canc…
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager. Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation, extreme polarization, and resulting anxiety. I've personally witnessed the effect on reasonably well educated adults in my life; I can only imagine how much worse it must be for those with…
As someone not on Twitter, I do see an awful lot of good content on the platform. By not engaging with it directly I can usually skip out on or ignore the worst parts of it.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#14I became a young father with 19, after way too much party starting from 15. So naturally I was concerned that my son would behave like me at that age. Or even just 50%.
So I was kinda dissapaointed how well behaved he is now with 22. Mostly interested in E-Sports, Tinder and his CRM job.
Said that, becoming a father at 19 was a great career move. Got a job making websites in the dot-com area as I needed money and was very motivated.
So when the first education programms in Europe started ad websites, webprogramming.I had already 7 years experience. There is value in a non standard CV.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager. Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation, extreme polarization, and resulting anxiety. I've personally witnessed the effect on reasonably well educated adults in my life; I can only imagine how much worse it must be for those with…
As someone not on Twitter, I do see an awful lot of good content on the platform. By not engaging with it directly I can usually skip out on or ignore the worst parts of it.
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Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#16Everyone wants a child to be a responsible grown up adult. Stolen childhood.
For almost the entirety of human history, 12 was old enough to get a job and look after a family. It's modernity that's the aberration here. Our obsession with keeping children immature has nothing to do with their well-being, and everything to do with adults deriving a sick emotional satisfaction from it. I think history will judge our obsession with keeping children from growing up in the same way we judge foot binding in ancient China.
The anomie that teenagers experience is a result of them having nothing meaningful to do. Those that have meaningful work to do, even in their education, don't suffer nearly such teenage angst, and are much happier for it in both the short and long term.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager. Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation, extreme polarization, and resulting anxiety. I've personally witnessed the effect on reasonably well educated adults in my life; I can only imagine how much worse it must be for those with…
As someone not on Twitter, I do see an awful lot of good content on the platform. By not engaging with it directly I can usually skip out on or ignore the worst parts of it.
I do this as well. Some of the ML (and lately COVID-19) content that gets posted there is absolute gold, but in consuming it I can be inadvertently sucked into other parts of the site. Such unfortunate occurrences are time consuming and generally have a decidedly negative impact on my mental state.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#18So for the first time in world history the people that complain about "youngsters these days are worse" are right.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager. Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation, extreme polarization, and resulting anxiety. I've personally witnessed the effect on reasonably well educated adults in my life; I can only imagine how much worse it must be for those with…
As someone not on Twitter, I do see an awful lot of good content on the platform. By not engaging with it directly I can usually skip out on or ignore the worst parts of it.
It's mostly a pointless outrage, virtue signaling, approval-seeking, and social climbing sewer-drain of cyberinhibitionism. Taking the proverbial shit with the sugar would run out of toilet paper, and my supplies are low and it's not in-stock anywhere. No one needs that stuff that just won't flush unless they're hopelessly co-dependent on others to move forward.
Re: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone not on Twitter, I do see an awful lot of good content on the platform. By not engaging with it directly I can usually skip out on or ignore the worst parts of it.
I do this as well. Some of the ML (and lately COVID-19) content that gets posted there is absolute gold, but in consuming it I can be inadvertently sucked into other parts of the site. Such unfortunate occurrences are time consuming and generally have a decidedly negative impact on my mental state.
I keep a list of people who I know are well connected and either post high quality content or retweet it, so I get broad coverage of the communities I’m interested in. Unfortunately even the best accounts get caught up in the worst of a Twitter sometimes, but it’s rare, I’ve trained myself to ignore it, and by not having an account I can’t really interact with the people anyways so I don’t get involved in it myself. (Occasionally I do send out emails in response to people’s tweets, and in one case I wrote a blog post that I doubt was ever seen by the person whose tweet prompted it.)