People Confess What Their Generation Experienced That Kids Today Will Never Understand

Nostalgia can be a powerful thing.

Have you looked at any of the movies to come out in the last year or so?

While nostalgia can be a fun trip to go on—letting you live in the past and feel like you did when you were younger, the lights were brighter and the sugar didn’t quite hurt your teeth as much—it can be damaging to the present. If your eyes are on the past, you’re not looking at the now.

That being said, there is a strange idea that what you went through in your youth might never be replicated now. After all, life goes on, and we’re never going back to dial-up internet service.

Thank goodness.

Reddit user, incrementaler, wanted to know what some kids might have missed out on when they asked:

“What is something your generation got to experience that no other generation will be able to experience?”

Never Forget

“Going up in the cockpit to meet the pilots. Thanks terrorist, ruined it for everyone.” ~ paksman

“You’re right. In flight it’s a no-go for the vast majority of airlines that all fall under certain TSA regulations.”

“However it’s no problem while boarding, unless we are busy with something. Just tell the flight attendants right when you step on that you’d like to say hello to the pilots, or that your kid would.”

“The flight attendant will check with us really quick then let you come say hello. Usually it’s children and they get pictures etc…, but I’ve also had the occasional nervous passenger or curious individual.” ~ duprass

Pics, Or It Didn’t Happen

“If something bad happened to you, there was no video of it.” ~RoriksteadResident

“We would have absolutely ended up in jail had there been smartphones & social media when I was in high school.” ~ Jealous-Network-8852

“When good moments would become memories, instead of desperate attempts to whip out your phone and document every moment” ~ Guava_

What Are You Up To?

“Walking over to a friend’s house because of boredom and knocking on the door. Them coming to the door to see who is knocking and discovering it’s a friend who dropped by unannounced and being happy.” ~ LurkJerk55

Let’s Go To The Mall, Everybody!

“Malls being the town hub. They were always really crowded.” ~ Ohsoeasy

“I remember going up to the mall to ‘hang out’ in high school. Friday nights the mall was packed with teenagers walking around, hanging at the food court, smoking ciggs out the main entrance, skateboarders out back.”

“Today’s kids buy everything online. Totally different world.” ~ PrincessPeach1229

Pay To Win

“Video games that required cheat codes rather than credit cards to unlock features.” ~ Leesider1

“I remember when my mom figured out from a magazine we got at the library that you could cheat code Bill Clinton into NBA Jam on SNES. How 90s is that?” ~ iStealyournewspapers

Is It Clear?

“Changing the channel on the TV and having to go outside and turn the antenna until my older sister yelled ‘OK!’.” ~ NagromTrebloc

No Winging It On Hangs

“Having to schedule things with your friends that either A, was well planned out in advance with very agreed upon meeting times, or B, waiting around the house to get a phone to call to set up the aforementioned plans.”

“Also knowing all of your friends and family phone numbers in your head so you could call from pay phones” ~ febreeze_it_away

But Not Streaming. Imagine That.

“Not that big of a deal but I got to go home from school knowing there would be new episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark, Ahhh Real Monsters, Rockos Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken, TMNT, Mighty Max, Street Sharks, Kenan and Kel, All That, Angry Beavers…” ~ SimpinOnGinandJuice

Seriously. This Was A Thing.

“Porn mags hidden in the forest” ~ blindsniperx

“We were on a weekend Scouting trip and were hiking uphill on a paved road. We were fortunate that the Scoutmaster was up ahead and out of sight because I spotted something over the hill behind a tree.”

“We went down to check it out and discovered porn and pints of Iron City beer. Some of us ended up having an especially fun time that weekend. I suppose that we violated several tenants of The Scout Law.” ~ NagromTrebloc

To See It Evolve From Both Sides

“Being a kid and a teenager without social media.” ~ paksman

“I’ll add too growing up along with the internet evolving. When I was a kid there was no social media and basically no internet.”

“Around my late middle school/early high school years AOL became a thing. So we experienced the anonymous internet.”

“Everything was through user names. You connected with people on themed message boards.”

“Then came the personal but still a little anonymous part. Programs that let you connect with people you know but still in a semi private way. Things like ICQ, AIM, Xanga, LiveJournal, etc…”

“About halfway through high school came the first modern social media: MySpace. Learned a lot about connecting with people, music, etc…”

“It was opening the door to internet that was connected to your actual person. And all the top 8 drama that went with it.”

“When I went to college my first semester I couldn’t get on Facebook because my college had not registered with them yet. Spring semester they had.”

“It was a great way to connect with others in my college and stay in touch with friends at other schools.”

“Then we got to watch it all grow and become more sinister and become the influencer culture with instagram and tiktok. Also all the data collection and lack of privacy that seems unimaginable when I think of the early days of anonymity.”

“It seriously feels like I grew up along with the internet and got to go through all its phases too.”

“It’s been a unique perspective being on both sides of the internet revolution.” ~ dont_blink_angels

The old days might have been fun, but they’re gone.

Don’t forget to love and live in the present.

You might find it’s just as good as things used to be.

August 4, 2021

People Talk About the Statement, “Travel Culture Is Another Form of Flexing”

You know you have some people like this in your life…

They have a ton of money, they’re always traveling to amazing places, AND they’re constantly posting pictures of their adventures.

And some of these folks can be really shallow…you know it’s true!

Do you think travel culture is just another form of flexing and doesn’t make people any more enlightened?

Let’s take a look at how AskReddit users responded.

1. Here’s the deal.

“Many bash those who waste a lot of money on materialistic goods or who like activities that are considered “shallow”, like clubbing and partying.

Meanwhile, “traveling” is often portrayed as the enlightened way to pass your time. Of course there is nothing inherently wrong with traveling, but I disagree that people who travel a lot are automatically any less shallow than those who go clubbing or buy a lot of stuff.

First of all, “travel culture” is a form of flexing. It has become less acceptable to brag about owning expensive stuff, so people now brag about their trips. Especially on Instagram, it is obvious that many use their travels to flex and show us how “superior” they are.

“Traveling” doesn’t make you an enlightened intellectual in any way. I could maybe understand this argument 30 years ago but nowadays, anyone can find any information they want about any place they like.

They can use the Internet to explore a country, without traveling there and contributing to its destruction. (tourism can be very bad for the environment)

Also, people have fun with different things. Maybe someone thinks that buying a PS5 is more fun to them than going on some stupid trip. That is their business and their choice is not inherently inferior.”

2. Great experiences.

“I am an introvert but one of my best experiences was like, I am buying a ticket from London to Brazil…. Total bliss!

I absolutely love getting to know places on my own and meeting the locals. I have had a lot of fun travelling on my own. Met great people.”

3. A competition.

“I was really interested in this girl that traveled a lot and I travel a lot for work so I thought maybe we had something in common.

When I found out that all she does is get a $30 Airbnb to sleep somewhere for the night and then go to the next place just to mark it on her passport but never actually enjoys any of the places, I definitely said pass pretty quickly.

I was wondering what the hell is the point of traveling that much if you’re not enjoying any of it. It was like she was on this competition to check in on Facebook to as many places as possible and then used that in all of her conversations to try to act like she was better than everyone else.”

4. Let’s go a bit further.

“Taking this point a bit further, traveling to do the same activities everyone and their mother does aimed at tourists isn’t enlightening

Traveling becomes enlightening when you explore the culture, mingle with locals, try their traditional food.

That’s not something you can google or check online, it’s something you experience.”

5. Street cred.

“Tinder and Hinge in my 30s is at least 50% women with only pictures of travel, and their desires are travel, and the profile describes how they are the traveliest traveler that ever traveled.

I’ve traveled for work and vacations. It is not my personality. It really does look like gaudy flexing to me.

The ones that really irritate me are the people who “vacation” to oppressive dictatorships and dangerous areas like warzones for the traveler street cred.

It’s like being some kind of weird upper-middle class adrenalin junkie.”

6. Never heard that term before.

“My husband calls these people “globe f**kers”.

As someone who has lived and travelled in many different countries because of my work, I’m hyper paranoid about sounding like a pretentious a**hole when I talk about my experiences.

Being well travelled is not a personality trait, but the worst have to either be the people who “backpacked” (drunkenly stumbled thru 3 countries for a month) and talk about it for the next 15 years.

Or the volun-tourism crowd who think they really made a difference during their 2 weeks at an orphanage in a country they dont speak the language, or building houses with zero skills.”

7. The straight dope.

“The benefit is really only for people that pay attention and keep an open mind.

My family has some very devout Mormons in it, and a weird Mormon thing to do is to spend at least a few hours at exotic temples when in the area. My aunt and uncle went to Italy a couple years ago and literally spent two days at the Mormon temple there, in which they play dress up and watch the same Adam and Eve movie as they do at their temple in the US.

I’m sure they still did a few cool things, but I think that perfectly highlights a bit of an oblivious emotional distance from their destination’s culture, and I really think they miss out on the beauty of it by having such a cursory and perfunctory approach to travel.

I can’t deny that people over romanticize it and it can become a classist bulls**t flex, but when you get to go to a new place and see the world a little differently or understand their way of life a bit better, I think it can improve your own worldview and increase empathy….but you gotta actually get out there and pay attention to it all.”

8. Don’t show off.

“Finally having the ability to do some limited travel has really opened my eyes to the rest of the world in a way the internet never could.

I’m in my late 40s now, and I know it’s expensive, but I wish Americans traveled internationally more. We’re so much smaller than we think, and no amount of internet can showcase that in the same way actually staying in a foreign country can.

I think your issue is not with travel but with the way some people talk about travel or show off on social media.”

9. A good thing.

“Maybe it’s a flex for some, but there’s is no substitute for seeing and experiencing the world for yourself.

It does change you and reading about it isn’t the same by a mile.”

10. Just fantastic.

“I think traveling and exploring the world is a fantastic way to spend your fleeting life.

I have made it a point to travel frequently and to some pretty awesome places. I don’t even have Instagram and only take pictures of animals and landscapes. For me, it’s mostly for the food and different species of animals, because that’s what Im into as a biologist.

My favorite was the Peruvian Amazon. 7 monkey species, macaws, all kinds of snakes. You can see them in books, but there is no substitute for in person.”

11. What’s the motivation?

“Saying “I like traveling” is the same as saying “I like reading” – it tells you nothing about the person unless you ask more questions and ask them to elaborate.

Someone who says “I like reading” but only reads books like “Twilight” or “50 shades of grey” is different from someone who reads history books or specific books about their interest – space, chess, math, you name it.

Someone who says “I like traveling” but only goes to Thailand or Bali to party and drink for 2 weeks is not the same as someone who cycles around the world for 6 months, or crosses half the world on a boat, or backpacks through Africa staying in villages and connecting with local people.

These are all different experiences. One of them is definitely more enlightening than the other. One is about just having fun without improving yourself as a person while the other one is more likely to give you some “food for your brain”.

The important part is the motivation behind these activities. Why does the person travel? Some travel for parties, other travel for sports (surfing, diving, kayaking etc), others travel for nature (hiking, camping), other travel for volunteering (helping with wild life conservation, preservation, beach cleaning), other travel for the cultural exchange (teaching kids in remote villages English), some travel for their own education (taking Spanish lessons in Bolivia).

Some people combine several of them (personally that’s what I do). There are many reasons to travel. If you think that every traveler is the Instagram traveler you are just stupid and shallow which is pretty sad actually.”

12. From a travel industry worker.

“I used to work in the travel industry and dealt with numerous ‘country counters’ (people who are trying to visiting every country in the world).

It felt like the majority of them were mindlessly trundling around the world, ticking off countries as if it was simply something to consume. If that’s not sad enough, some of these country counters even compete with one another using league tables or try to bolster their reputations by marketing themselves as the first *insert s**uality, insert gender identity, insert race, insert social class, insert nationality, insert whatever* to visit every country in the world.

I can tell you now, despite what these people like to think there’s no skill in visiting a s**t-load of countries for sightseeing. It’s not an achievement and nor is it remarkable. All that’s required is money, competent travel agents and local fixers.”

What are your thoughts about this topic?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know.

We’d love to hear from you!

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June 20, 2021

What Social Trend Annoys You the Most? People Spoke Up.

I really do enjoy some things about social media, BUT there’s no denying that there are some really annoying aspects about it.

Like influencers.

And people dancing in their kitchens for no reason.

And there are a whole bunch of other ones I can’t think I’m right now because I’m starting to get upset…

AskReddit users discussed the modern social trends that really annoy them.

Let’s see what they had to say.

1. Ugh.

“Family vloggers horrify me. The concept of exploiting your children’s lives for views is particularly awful.

And because it’s a relatively new concept there are no real laws around child labor or exploitation concerning it. There are youtubers out there right now who live in mansions worth millions of dollars that they got from shoving a camera in their toddler’s face and demanding them to perform for strangers.

I can’t even imagine the psychological repercussions this will have on these kids in the future.”

2. It’s true.

“Everyone has a right to have a voice on the internet but not everyone deserves a following / authority / influence.

Just because you paid off your car doesn’t mean you’re qualified to become a financial coach.”

3. Can I just buy this thing?

“You can’t just buy something now. Everything is a subscription.

First it was just Netflix, then it was dollar shave club. Now every TV channel is a separate subscription, every household item wants to send it to you over and over again. Nothing is released physically, so the only way to watch a movie or check out a new album is to pay someone monthly.

Services that were offered for free or one-time purchase are rescinded and now offered as subscriptions. It’s so obvious that everyone and everything just wants to milk you as long and for as much as possible. And people just buy into it willingly. I know people who spend like $200 a month on s**t that was free like, 10 years ago.

People are even offering themselves on a subscription base now. I can’t believe how cool everyone is with watching all their money disappear all the time.”

4. No privacy.

“In general, just the fact that people aren’t allowed to be private anymore.

All your devices hook up to the Internet. Your smartphone tracks you in God only knows how many different ways. Every business wants you to sign up for a rewards account, so they can harvest your contact details. Hell, even my PC and game consoles will rearrange my desktop just to show me advertisements.

And if that wasn’t enough, people give you strange looks when you tell them you have almost no social media presence: no Twitter, no Instagram, no Snapchat, no Facebook. Not to mention how people just get this confused look on their face whenever I get mad at them because they took a photo/video of me without my knowledge or consent and put it on their social media.

Honestly, it shocks me to see how little people care that privacy is disappearing.”

5. The answer is NO.

“Entitled social media influencers who contact businesses and practically demand free goods or services in exchange for exposure.”

6. Ugh.

“The “I’m going to disrespect my way to the top of the world” thing that Jake Paul is doing.”

7. Don’t answer that.

“Spontaneous facetime calls. I’m in my god**mn undies. Stop shoving cameras in my face.

And by that I actually mean when someone else nearby starts a facetime and assumes you want to be part of it.”

8. They’re not gods.

“Glorifying celebrities and treating them like gods.

I understand being a fan of someone, but you don’t have to create an entire livelihood around them or try to emulate them.

This is also how people get into positions of power when they shouldn’t be.”

9. I’m a great person!

“People recording themselves doing “charitable acts” like buying a meal or giving money to a homeless person.

I can assure you that person does NOT want their face all over social media so you can get clout for being a “good charitable person”.

Sure do a good thing like helping the less fortunate but you don’t need to record it and have their face all over social media.”

10. Not cool.

“Over-the-top pranks that involve staged violence or scaring passersby.

Seems like a surefire way to traumatize someone.

I have PTSD and it’s not fun.”

11. Too much work.

“Everyone on the internet requesting me to create an account with an email and password just to access a page.

No, Donny’s Discount Lawn Furniture, i don’t want to be part of your mailing list, or subscribe to your instagram or whatever else.

I just wanna check the price of a chair, and GTFO.”

12. Put the phone down.

“Driving while on a cell phone.

Driving has always been a little frustrating but now it’s gotten insane. My girlfriend and I can call out with at least 90% accuracy who is on their phone.

Abrupt Lane changes, 20mph under the speed limit, swerving, looking at phone and missing a green light for 5+ seconds, and – my personal pet peeve – stopping 50’ short of a light in a busy intersection during rush hour.

Not only is the use common, but the entitlement that comes with it is across the board. Someone waiting at a green light 5+ seconds, I do a short honk to alert them – they give me middle finger. Like, yeah, I’m the f**king idiot here (I can see you playing on your phone through your back windshield).

The other day I had a girl pull across two rows of parked cars in a lot and had to slam on my brakes to not smash into her. Instead of saying sorry, she got out of the car (still in the middle of the lane) while still on FaceTime to film me.

Like… it’s gotten so bad that I don’t see any real solution other than videoing all of these people/license plates and sending them to the local police.”

How about you?

What trends are you really not a big fan of?

Let us know what you think in the comments!

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April 29, 2021

This is How You Can Delete Each of Your Social Media Accounts Forever

A lot of us enjoy social media, or at least aspects of it. We might not be on every platform, and we might not like them all equally, but in this day and age it’s a popular way to pass the time.

Some folks, though, decided somewhere along the way that the benefits don’t outweigh the risks. Whether something is going on in their personal life that makes having an online presence less desirable, they’re feeling addicted, or they’re looking to live a simpler way, it’s important to be able to delete your profiles on these apps if you want or need to.

Here’s how to deactivate or delete your accounts on these popular social networks.

Facebook

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Facebook gives you two options if you’re feeling like you want off the site – deactivation or deletion.

When you deactivate your account, you’re hiding your information from searches and from your friends, but if you decide you want to activate it again, you’ll come back to a page that looks exactly as you left it.

If you’re just wanting a trial separation, go into your settings on Facebook and click Settings and Privacy, then Your Facebook Information. From there, click Deactivation and Deletion and choose Deactivate Account.

It will verify that’s what you want to do, and then give you some additional instructions to follow.

If you’re ready to break things off forever, you’ll want to request to delete your account altogether. From the Deactivation and Deletion menu, choose Delete Account, then Continue to Account Deletion. Enter your password, click Continue, and then Delete Account.

It will take a couple of days to complete it, and Facebook will cancel the request if you try to log in at all, so just take a few deep breaths and leave it be.

You can download all of the data on your account before deleting it, if you’re nervous. Go to Settings, then Your Facebook Information and then Download Your Information. Facebook will send you a link down download, but make sure you store it in a safe place once you do.

Instagram

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You have to log into your IG account via the web in order to delete it, and your settings menu will only give you the option to temporarily disable your account, which will hide your profile, photos, likes, and comments, but they won’t go away entirely.

To delete your IG forever, enter the URL https://instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent into your browser, then click Permanently Delete My Account.

Done!

TikTok

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There are plenty of reasons to be worried about the privacy settings on this app, and if you’re ready to chuck it for good, deleting it is easy.

Open the app, click on the Me section on the bottom right, then choose Manage My Account, then Delete My Account.

Confirm your choice and move on with your life!

Twitter

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Twitter makes it easy for you to fly free, but before you leave the nest, you might want to download your archive – that’s all of your tweets in a chronological order.

Click your profile icon, to to Settings, then Account, and Your Twitter Data.

Once you’re ready to go, head back to Account Settings, then choose Deactivate My Account at the bottom of the list.

It takes 30 days for all of your data to be deleted, which gives you an opportunity for second thoughts if you have them.

Snapchat

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Snapchat has kind of fallen out of popularity with a rise in Instagram and TikTok use, and if you’re one of those who aren’t using it like you used to, here’s how to delete your account.

Just head to the company’s Accounts Portal, then type in your username and password to delete. Like with Twitter, you’ll have 30 days to change your mind before it’s gone forever.

There you have it! I don’t think I’m brave enough yet to go social media free, but I admire people who can!

Are you off many social networks? How is it going? Tell us about it in the comments!

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