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What is something that 2020s kids will never get to experience? (midwest.social)
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[–] 99 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not having all the silly teenager / young adult bits of their lives documented in videos for all to see.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I said/did/wrote (in my personal journal) so much cringe shit as a teen. I am GLAD it's not out there on permanent record. I got my Facebook account when I was like 17. Well after all the other kids my age did (I'm 31 now). I stopped using it by 23. I usually just made witty quips about life in general on Facebook, never aired my dirty laundry or spilled my guts or called a girl a bitch for not wanting to go out with me. I did go through a tough breakup during this time in my life, but the most I ever did was quote Cee-Lo's "Fuck You."

    Facebook being problematic for kids is nothing new, but now many adults are intimately aware of how bad it is because we were those kids.

    I really feel for kids these days.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Back in the day personal blogs were pretty popular. Most of my friends had one, and we pretty much all treated it like a personal journal. So we aired our dirty laundry, for all to see, and it’s still in the internet archive to cringe at there too. We were blogger people, but LiveJournal was hugely popular for the same purpose.

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