Lonely Teenagers

[toby1]

So the Government (probably at great expense ) have come to the conclusion that teenagers aged between 16 and 24 are lonely and isolated. FFS is this not the generation locked in their bedrooms with Sega's and X boxes and the like, no face to face meeting other humans when texting will do.

Payback time..........

[Diggs]

Payback time in what sense?
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[Polarbear]

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[LustyLew]

Surely it's the generation that live on Instagram and Twitter and whatever the latest platform for 'likes' is.

A constant pressure, looking for that next viral fad. The likes of Zoella, Joe Sugg, et al spouting this online persona of how fucking fantastic things are all the time.

Add to this the problem of cyber bullying.

I hate kids with a passion, but I'm so glad I grew up without the pressures they are under today.

I got bullied at school and hated it. But once I was out of school I was away from it all. Now it's a constant barrage of abuse, suspicion, expectation 24/7!

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Yeah, yeah......

I'm not sure loneliness is altogether new in this age group. While social media has a big role in everyone's lives nowadays, I can remember feeling alone despite hanging out with groups of friends.

Like most girls, I was part of a small clique of 4 girls who spent every spare minute together. It didn't mean we shared everything though. There was still a sense of "aloneness" as hormonal changes struck or boys ignored you

What we didn't have, was the constant need for feedback, "likes" for every outfit, eyebrow, lipstick or dinner. My daughters (19 & 22) are constantly posting, waiting for and counting likes and feeling pressured to "like" other people's postings.

It's a mistake not to accept that we are all alone, the vast majority of the population is indifferent to you and if you believe that everyone is having a better time/sex life/career/holiday/home/pets/friends than you, you're doomed.

Coz you/we are all doomed anyway.

Shit, I was feeling quite cheerful until I started this post.

Pass the gin (again) Sid
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Yeah, everyone is a victim in modern Snowflake society. If they can't afford 5 pence for a tampon, they're suffering from depression, loneliness, poverty or discrimination of some new sort, invented last week.

I popped around to my sisters yesterday and all 3 nephews spent the entire time when we weren't eating, on separate games consoles, all with headsets on, chatting to their mates.
All that's changed is kids don't go out to socialise, they sit in their bedrooms "chatting" to people online. Not a lot different to adults really.

What are we all doing on here? How often do people sit pratting about on their phone of an evening? Do we all feel victimised and lonely? Some like to feel offended on behalf of others, but come on...
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[chickenstrip]

I blame parents and schools for not doing enough to instil healthy interests in their little darling responsibility packages.
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[tittymcarsefa...]

Just because they are on their own doesn't mean they are lonely, they are interacting and socialising with others online rather than face to face, just because it is not how you socialised doesn't mean they feel as lonely as you think they look.

Also since when did 24 year old get class as a teenager? teenager is someone between 13 and 19.

Treating grown adults like children pisses me off, if you are old enough to fuck, vote and marry you are not a child anymore period and deserve no childlike treatment.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think the difference today is that people are constantly being asked how they feel, and if you ask often enough people will abandon the stiff upper lip and you'll get a headline, usually saying a minority are unhappy but expressing it like it's the majority. Heck, in the '80s we were always 3-minutes and a mistake away from nuclear annihilation. We just made pop songs about it. Which reminds me, there is no youth culture these days. Maybe that's part of the problem.

[Pigeon]

[stevo as b4]

Too fucking right they are all fragile, alone and messed up! These modern fucking Millenials live in a world that's not real and have nothing going for them away from Electronic shit that governs their lives and behaviour!

They had 16years from birth to become normal stable and healthy adults, with real physical hobbies and interests out there in the real world. They are all messed up pressurised and feel like fat failures, because they are fat and fail massively at real life interaction and success.

They and their parents need to change hugely and quickly or they will all be fucked, and we'll see far more teen suicides, obesity, deaths and kids in prison or care etc.

[arry]

https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2017/04/28/nus-ban-whooping-cheering-clapping-92915

Look at the shit they get taught. Is it any wonder.

[grr666]

[stevo as b4]

Same here, but it's still sad that some or many young people will grow up with more problems, and less chance of being healthy and normal and able to succeed in the real world.

They already face enough pressures of being the generations with little to no chance of buying their own homes, and not ever seeing a state pension etc.

A bloke at work has two teenage kids, they both have had everything done for them over the years. Lifts to friends houses, or to all their hobbies and appointments. He takes days off work to take them to the dentist etc. His daughter did not even know at the age of 16 how to get a bus!
She said "dad it's your fault as you always did everything for us" but at the time she didn't complain then, expecting her dad to give up his free time and take days off work to take her everywhere in the car.

Kids have no social skills now, no Street skills, no sense of direction or how to read maps or navigate their way through a city. They don't know much about the real world and how to live in it, because they've never seen it.

[Triton Thrasher]

A story as old as time.

https://youtu.be/A8b8fd6K5PI
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An article on the local news just now is once again turning students into the victim again.

This time, it’s because society is forcing the little snowflakes to run up huge gambling debts. Because, nobody under the age of 30 is now responsible for their own stupidity or actions.
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[Diggs]

I can't resist...

So, I take it you don't like students? Is it because some of them are potential Labour voters, or is it because your grades weren't good enough to get in?
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Diggs]

I think what makes the difference is if the kid has worked before they leave University. Kids who have worked before getting their first 'proper job' know that money has to be earned. They also know that they are on the bottom of the pile until the next kid comes along...
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[Pigeon]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Diggs]

I have 2 teenagers and one 20 year old, and I can confirm that alcohol and A & E visits have featured over the last few years. My daughter is 14 and I can also confirm that I apply double standards when it comes to her nocturnal activities.

The thing is, nothing has changed in this respect from when I was a teenager. Two fundamentals have changed however - social media and drug culture. Back in my day our social media was confined to what you could do in a telephone box, and drugs were rare. Nowadays kids are constantly in contact with hundreds of people they don't really know and consequently don't get any peace, plus drugs are cheaper than beer.

The basics are the same - kids want money and many get a job to pay for things parents won't buy them just like I had to. I apply the same rule with money as my parents did with me - I will pay for the basics and if the kid wants something fancy instead they can make up the difference. As an example, my folks used to give me money for 'Whinnies' trainers (for those old enough to remember Woolies homebrand 2 stripe) and I had to put too to get Adidas Kick instead. I didn't have a choice because to turn out in Whinnies was like turning out with 'ridicule me' tattooed on my forehead.
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[Polarbear]