Re:Child suicides in Japan hit record high
by thrav on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:05AM
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To be fair to them, taking a great picture at a pumpkin patch is an American tradition. They often go on the Christmas Card. I was out there attaching a tripod to a fence and trying to get a good family portrait for my daughter’s first year walking.
If they spent the majority of the day outside, I feel like they have a leg up on many kids who never leave the house.
I was trying to do similar things on MySpace when I was their age; Or spending similar amounts of time chained to my desk chatting with girls on AIM; Or more frequently losing 8 hours at a clip to playing an FPS.
I had one staying in my house this weekend. They’re not as bad as we think they are. Most of my concern sits with the way the parents behave.
Re:Child suicides in Japan hit record high
by ED_Radish on Friday October 15, 2021 @08:53AM
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I'm Gen Z and seemingly am an outlier in that I had a pretty decent experience over the past year or so of lockdown.
Given that I only really use this and Discord, there might be a correlation there?
Re:Child suicides in Japan hit record high
by EricE on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:08AM
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We have real evidence the lockdowns were totally unnecessary - see: https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-top-infectious-disease-exp...
And yet they still persist in many parts of the world.
I’m not Gen Z nor are my friends, but they sometimes make me feel like they fall into this bucket of “should I check on them more often?” for the two items I laid out above.
Deep down I’m blaming social media for the increase in suicide amongst younger kids. It’s a pony show to them and they all want to outdo each other.
I went to a pumpkin patch over the weekend and two late teen girls spent an hour or so trying to get the best photos holding sunflowers. The place I was at let you pick your own sunflowers. These two girls were dressed up and proceeded to set up a camera stand for one of their cell phones that had a ring light around it. They spent that time trying to get the best photo to post to their IG pages and TikTok.
I get it that maybe they want to work on photography, but they spent way more effort and time than they should have when they were debating what to post to IG and TikTok.
::shrug::