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Recently, Redditor u/AlmostBarbie reignited the never-dying discussion on the generation gap. On July 18, they made a post, asking, "Gen Z and millennials, what's something you wish the older generations understood?" and millennials especially had a to get off their chest.

Just as millennials grew up negotiating choices in their families and at school, today they want to be and feel significant in their professional and personal lives. Here are the things that matter to them the most.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Just because someone is Family DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO LOVE THEM. Terrible toxic people should ABSOLUTELY be cut out of your life REGARDLESS of their relationship to you

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Fox News and Talk Radio did to you what you thought video games would do to us.

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#3

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Your s****y jokes that objectify women or make fun of minorities won’t fly anymore. Get over it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone should take this statement and tape it right into my father's face. He seems to only know 10 jokes, and all of them are either sexist or racist.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread When I’m depressed that doesn’t mean you need to give me lectures on what’s wrong with me so I can improve

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst lecture I received was how they had life far worse than me, felt more depressed and yet never behaved like me. How I am weak and allowed circumstances and recent media hype over mental illness to make me feel sick deliberately!

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Yeah, we know. You rode in the back window of a car that had no seatbelts, you got measles, rode bikes with no helmets, and still turned out just fine.

Just because you happened to be in the group of people who survived doesn’t mean any of these were a good idea.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those "In my days things were better" people. NO things were not better, just different AND we have better medicines, technology, transport etc. YES you did fine without them but we are doing better WITH them !

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#6

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Customers ARE NOT always right.

The original phrase reeks privilege, and self entitlement.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The original phrase is "The customer is always right in matters of taste"

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#7

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That video games dont cause mass shootings. Things like neglect, bullying,a bad home life, and your s****y parenting are what causes mass shootings

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blaming something else is a rather old issue. It was Dungeons & Dragons in the 80s. Rock music before that.

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#8

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread You can’t put yourself through college by working at the supermarket anymore.

Our generation is the biggest in US history, so competition for jobs is much harder than it was for Boomers, which causes wages to flatline.

Add to this that housing and food costs are at all time highs and it’s pretty bleak for us, even many of those who have good jobs at Fortune 500 companies cannot afford to purchase homes.

I would really just like Boomers for ONCE just to acknowledge how difficult it is today vs. when they were coming up. It’s a different world and they just can’t see it. It’s very frustrating because most of them still think that anybody willing to swing a hammer 40 hours a week can make a living in America and it’s just not true anymore.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait until the boomers all die and the housing market crashes because of the massive surplus.

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#9

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That $15/hour in 2021 does not give you the same purchasing power that it did in 1985. When I hear an older person say "I used to get by just fine on $15/hour", I wanna slap them.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Throughout our schooling, we had to write research papers using online sources, and our teachers really stressed the importance of being able to identify a credible source before citing it. Don't be offended when you send us an article from Americanpatrioteagle.ru and we dismiss it outright.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Learning about credible sources is a great skill to have. A former friend of mine has been posting 10 times a day on Facebook since joining. Lots of dubious "facts" and "news". I kept pointing out inaccuracies and fact-checking sites. After several years, they wrote that they'd like to start consulting fact-checking sites. I was long disengaged by then. I can live with the occasional mistake (I've made them, too), but not a daily barrage that requires fact-checking by the audience.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread I feel damn resentful when older folks tell me I should stay home with my kids. Like, yeah I’d love to if we could afford it, which we can’t. They act like it’s a choice to go back to work, when for a lot of moms, it’s not a choice.

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#12

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread "I was spanked as a kid and I turned out fine."

No, you didn't. You're a narcissist, get mad easily, joke about hitting your own children and even they're sick of your bull crap to the point that they cut you off. F**k you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dang - somebody's got an agenda / jumping to conclusions. I was spanked as a child, and I don't get mad easily, never joke about violence, and have never once hit my own kids. You'll have to ask others about my narcissism and if they're sick of my crap, but even if I'm guilty of those things you've got some work to do to convince me it's because of my childhood abuse.

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#13

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Your job is not your life, you shouldn't sacrifice time with friends and family let alone your mental wellbeing just for a paycheck

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Catch 22 there. Hard to have time for your friends and family if you can't put food on the table or keep the utilities on. :(

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#14

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That just because I don't want to be called something doesn't mean I'm a baby. People are allowed to have boundaries and things they don't feel comfortable with

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It also swings the other way. If you hear me call my son "Monster Face," it doesn't mean he will grow up with a complex. It's a term of endearment. My sister flipped out at this. I was called "Monster Face" by my mom's entire side of the family. I called them names too like "Old lady." If it's an inside fun ribbing, don't call it out as cruel unless you're in on it or you see or hear the other person protest.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Just because we're more aware of our mental health and allow ourselves to feel what we want to feel, it doesn't make us weak or "snowflakes". If anything, it makes us better at coping with, well, everything!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Snowflake" is a word almost exclusively used by people who truly are very insecure; similarly as they use "liberal" as an insult to mask they own lack of tolerance towards others.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Dad: “Just go in and ask for a job and keep going every day until they give you one.” Or “This random kid I was talking to at Wegmans (20 years ago) started in the mailroom and worked his way up and he’s making $x hundred thousand per year.”

Me: “They just tell you to submit a resume online and never respond.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This worked when I was in college 2000-2004, but it doesn't work anymore. They get angry with you if you come in. "Apply online"

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#17

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Texting is much more convenient, sometimes even better, than making a phone call.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So so so many times it's easier to actually talk to the other humans, scary as that can seem. With texting there's no tone, nuance and my sarcasm is much better while talking.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Unless you are extremely gifted and have a way to demonstrate it, social class is becoming more locked in than it has been in generations.

The social mobility that started to become available in the first half of the 20th century, but amplified much more so in the 40's, 50's and 60's started to decline in the 80s and by the 2010s was is straight up freefall.

If you do not have parents that are willing and able to support your social and financial progress from childhood through higher education (or through training in a steady trade) you are at very real risk of falling through the cracks of this society through no fault of your own.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The US has a system of equality where the more you own, the more equal you are and the more civil rights you have.

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#19

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That electronics don't rot your brain,and that vaccines ARE effective.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think boomers - the smallpox generation - are well aware of the efficacy of vaccines. It's younger people (mainly in the usa) who seem to think otherwise.

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#20

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Just because I know where/how to find the answer to something doesn't mean I "think I'm smarter than you."

I'm just trying to save both of us from wasting time.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or when someone knows more about some topic. It's natural, we all develop bigger knowledge about something. I know more about history, you know more about space. IT'S NORMAL

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread There was hope in your time. You felt like you could change the world. Nowadays, our economy is f****d, our environment is f****d, our privacy is gone, our governments are pitting us against one and other, and the planet is going to kill us off within the next century regardless of what we do about it.

So don't look down on us as "weak" or call us "entitled" if we're a little pissed off and/or depressed about it, ok?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally someone who gets it. It isn't left vs. right. It's society vs. government. Stop falling for the idea that we should be pissed at each other. Wrong!

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That I’m not a lazy entitled CHILD. I’m in my mid 30s and most of my peers that are younger than me are smart and hardworking as well. It’s productivity and efficiency that matters, not the amount of time you spend at work.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a story here in Germany called "the seven lazy ones". It's about seven men, who are known to be incredibly lazy. Eventually, they left the town to find work. Years later, they came back and start improving things immensely: they build a dam to protect the town from floods, they build a pathway and houses for themselves and dig a well. But no matter what they do, the neighbors always find a way to keep calling them lazy because they're making life easier and obviously only lazy people would want an easier life.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That the cost of education far outpaced inflation and wage growth in the US. If I had a dime for each boomer who lectured me about working my way through school like they did, I might almost be able to buy a house!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rather show to them how tuition fees are handled elsewhere in the world and you might get an idea about what is wrong...

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That technology exists to enable people to work from home, and just because they do doesn't mean they are sat watching Netflix

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't mean that, but admit it. You are on BoredPanda and Netflix more than you would be in the office.

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#25

Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That it is reasonable to not want kids and enjoy life with your spouse.

I can’t have kids, buy a house, and go on vacation even with my $100k+ salary. At least, not if I want to have money saved for emergencies.

Either older generations played it looser with less savings, or s**t was different.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$100k a year and you can't do those things? What the f**k ARE you spending your money on? Few people reading this will have much sympathy for someone earning a vast amount more than they are

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Apparently sleeping till 11 AM makes you lazy regardless of whether or not you had to work until 12:30 AM at your s****y Wendy's location.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not exclusively a boomer thing, though. There's still very little regard for people working in nightshifts.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread Kids use computers/phones for more than just playing video games and scrolling through social media. I basically live on my computer. My best friends are online. My favorite activities are coding and making games. But no, my parents assume the devil computer is rotting my brain and making me stupid. As a wise man once said: phone bad, book good.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask the same people if back in 1960 they were writing with charcoal on stones or went for the convenience of pencil and paper.

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Kookamunga
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I basically live on my computer" - that statement is a bit scary and sad to me. I want to live, be outdoors, talking and looking at people, using all my senses. Computers should be just one part of your life, not your whole life.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would prefer to be outdoors also, but the outdoors comes with the constant din of road noise, which is part of the reason I spend too much time in the quiet basement.

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Lynn Colombo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's lost with computers though is face to face in person interaction.

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Anna Repp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, tell that to my kid who's always on video chat with 5-6 friends!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use it to plan stuff, to buy stuff, to do research, to work, to write stories and poems, to record and edit music, to do banking, to edit and archive photos and yes, I also play games. That's a part of it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you are not addicted it's ok. But computers can have bad influence on people.

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John Baker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I basically live on my computer." And you don't see a problem with this...?

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Anna Repp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I basically live on my computer and no, I do not see any problem with it. I'm introverted, have a social phobia and find it easier to talk to people online. I also work from home, have my own business, so I find all my clients and work online. My friends are all over the world - so I connect with them online. And this does not mean that I do not enjoy the outdoors or traveling or nature - I do it all as well.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"My Best friends are online" I find this extremely sad.

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June
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have really good friends online. I met them in game years ago, we eventually met in real life. I don't think it's sad. You can build a strong relationship online.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is that if all your friends are through online interactions, you start to lose the capability to have real face-to-face human interactions. Social skills are important!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The point is that if you spend your life in computers (or books) you will be socially inept as an adult because you lack experience dealing with people face to face. Further, if you don't get that experience while you are young, you will never be able to develop normal social skills. It was never about computers or video games or tv or books. It has always been about mental health and social development.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Books once were considered just as dangerous as computers, video games and the internet are today, and for mostly the same reasons: "They give people bad ideas". Their image has improved simply because they've been around longer and there's new scapegoats.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same with theater. Now is fancy and expensive but it used to be considered really bad, specially for women and children.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, but sitting all day will probably make your body fall apart early and make your mind fuzzy and fall out of circadian rhythm. Sorry, “probably” was a strong word; just forget it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glowing rectangle for: work, socializing, mate searching, porn, games, friends, entertainment, news, school, scrolling....

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Computers aren't rotting your brain, but social media definitely does. I automatically have ZERO respect for the narcissists who "live" their lives through F-Book. Also, sitting at a computer all day has many negative health implication. I know this from my own career in IT - obesity, back problems, etc. That being said the Internet and computers are among the greatest innovations in human history.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe, just maybe, they think that because you've proven it to be too difficult to pry you away from the computer you live on? Ha! What am I thinking? There's no way it could be that because none of it is your fault!

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Lesa McFadden
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again....older people condemn the younger people for all their computer time...what I see is that older people who are online tend to spend a LOT of time on things like Facebook and games like candy crush...ergo...eating more time...than the young people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love having the world at my fingertips! More exposure to the world means more knowledge, more skills, and more care about the world around us.

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Evelyn Haskins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IT all depends on what you DO with your computer! Personally I see "coding and making games" as wasting time. You have so much access now to good information, why not improve you knowledge? Yeah I know , I am wasting time here -- but at my age it beats housework

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask them if they don't like not having to dial 7 numbers on the phone, and instead just hit a number to make a call.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My band director complains of this constantly. Acts as though phones and such are the root of all evil and that texting is the worst thing a person could do with their time. He fails to realize that young people don’t get to see each other face to face as often as his generation did. His favorite phrase is “the strong the internet connection, the weaker the human connection” but in reality, the internet is the best chance for most of us to have any sort of relationship with people. I’m on my phone a lot but I don’t even have social media. I just like talking to people and I have strict parents that don’t let me out

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"As a wise man once said: phone bad, book good." What if i read books/newspapers on random things with displays? :D

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Ron Man
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You basically said you don't do the things that you actually do. Okay. I guess it makes sense to you that you don't use your computer for scrolling social media, but somehow are magically able to keep up with activities and friends online? THAT'S SOCIAL MEDIA

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the opposite of my experiences. My dad had an IPad before me. He had a laptop before me. I'm 48. My dad has a Smart Watch to monitor his blood pressure and heart rate. My mom was emailing long before me! They had more disposable income so had computers. I was busy trying to pay rent and gas bill in an old draft house.

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John Baker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of us old farts love high tech toys. We just don't let them take over our lives.

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Caroline Pichette
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One day I was in the waiting room on my phone at the dentist office. A man looked at me and made a "discreet" comment to his friend about people being always on their phone like brainless zombies...I was reading The Hound of the Baskervilles on my phone...People can be so quick to judge.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom won't touch a computer (those damned things!), but never hesitates to ask me to look things up or buy something for her online.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad bitches about Facebook being shallow and stupid. Social media can be, but in-person gossip and pictures of you in front of monumens isn't profound, either.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This! I'm so tired of even my daughter's therapist trying to tell me that I have to limit her time online - and that's in a pandemic year(s) when that's the only way teenagers are able to get together is online! They make friends, chat, game, make videos together and are altogether more social and creative than I was, sitting home alone with a book back in the 80s...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "phone bad, book good" argument is even more absurd when you consider all the people who read and yet don't magically become geniuses...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they tell you this while watching tv fron their couch.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That “just get a better job” is not all that easy

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That not everything can be solved with immediate aggression. That being patient and thinking on the right thing to say rather then saying what comes to mind first goes a lot further

Bman28345 , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was one of the first things they tried to teach me at the hospital. I kept calling it 'plotting' and they didn't like that. It's one of my most used pieces of advice, every time I get an email from head office, I click reply, delete the addressee and type my angry response. Then delete the email and start anew with a more measured and planned response.

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Millennials Share 30 Things They Wish Older Generations Understood In This Heartbreaking Viral Thread That we're not that lazy and we have a good reason to be depressed, cynical, and pesimistic. People like my grandma always talk how "at your age i was married, had a house, and 2 kids blah blah" not realising they did all that on 1 paycheck, while simultaneously complaining how money isnt worth anything nowadays and they just went grocery shopping and spent 25 % of their income while chanting "dont worry, its gonna get better". How can you not put those two together

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1) Your grandma got married and had kids at your age because she didn’t have a lot of other options...but because it was necessarily what she would have otherwise chosen.... those good old days weren’t always so good if you dig a little deeper. Anyone who wants to go back to the “good old days” is either living in a fantasy world or they like a world where white men were the only ones with any rights (it’s not been so many years ago that a woman couldn’t get credit in her name without a male counter-signer). 2) Your grandma didn’t send her kids to school every day worried that today might be the day some sick person will target their school for a mass killing. 3) While her generation should have been worried about climate change and its effect on the future of this planet, she was not faced with the urgency that your generation is.

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