Right, and I am trying to let her but also trying to encourage her to always do the right thing, not the popular thing. She will be okay, it will just be rough for a bit.
100%! Social media has ruined the ability for kids and teens to just be kids and teens. They constantly have to worry about everything they do ending up online. I am thankful Facebook only started when I was in college.
Although I've never had a Facebook account or Twitter (I refuse to call it X) I do wonder if I'd be strong enough *not* to have those as a teenager today. I hope I'd be that weird kid that they'd have to bully in person and risk finding out how good I was with an aluminium baseball bat...
This is why in a strange way I'm glad to have been raised in a really obscure sect of Pentecostalism that is so off the radar it doesn't even subscribe to the Nicene Creed: I grew up knowing that we were outsiders, but it didn't matter so long as we were right. It's doomed me to be a contrarian, long after I escaped the sect. :p
I think I was born that way. I rarely take anything at face value, rarely take anyone's word for anything. I was that kid who touched a hot thing after some other kid touched it and said it was hot - so don't touch it. I've always felt outside & different. So, long ago I made a choice: should I try as hard as possible to fit in, or should I just say 'fuck 'em' and be the person I am?
I did compromise a *little* bit and become (at least on first impression) reasonably 'normal', but once you got past the paint-thin camouflage you realised I wasn't a run-of-the-mill human...
X is stupid and don't worry, no one else calls it that either. I love that news articles always say "X, formerly known as Twitter". It makes me cackle.
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Trying so hard to instill this in Eleanor again. Especially now that she is going into...middle school *crying in a very not cool way*
She'll want to fit in *badly* at that age, but I'm sure that she'll come out the other side who she is on the inside again.
Right, and I am trying to let her but also trying to encourage her to always do the right thing, not the popular thing. She will be okay, it will just be rough for a bit.
Yup.. the Teens are *rough*, especially these days... I'd hate being a teenager now. It was bad enough back in the 20th...
100%! Social media has ruined the ability for kids and teens to just be kids and teens. They constantly have to worry about everything they do ending up online. I am thankful Facebook only started when I was in college.
Although I've never had a Facebook account or Twitter (I refuse to call it X) I do wonder if I'd be strong enough *not* to have those as a teenager today. I hope I'd be that weird kid that they'd have to bully in person and risk finding out how good I was with an aluminium baseball bat...
This is why in a strange way I'm glad to have been raised in a really obscure sect of Pentecostalism that is so off the radar it doesn't even subscribe to the Nicene Creed: I grew up knowing that we were outsiders, but it didn't matter so long as we were right. It's doomed me to be a contrarian, long after I escaped the sect. :p
I think I was born that way. I rarely take anything at face value, rarely take anyone's word for anything. I was that kid who touched a hot thing after some other kid touched it and said it was hot - so don't touch it. I've always felt outside & different. So, long ago I made a choice: should I try as hard as possible to fit in, or should I just say 'fuck 'em' and be the person I am?
I did compromise a *little* bit and become (at least on first impression) reasonably 'normal', but once you got past the paint-thin camouflage you realised I wasn't a run-of-the-mill human...
X is stupid and don't worry, no one else calls it that either. I love that news articles always say "X, formerly known as Twitter". It makes me cackle.
That cracks me up too. I wonder how long it'll be before it goes back to being called Twitter - officially?? [lol]
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