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IMO children were always like this, not thinking about risks. I remember how many risky things I done with my bike and we never listen and always played footbal

IMO children were always like this, not thinking about risks. I remember how many risky things I done with my bike and we never listen and always played football on the street, and now this feels to me like as children we are somehow blind to this risks.

layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
My parents were progressive - they considered me and my brother as little adults basically, and they’ve educated us on many serious topics early on (sex, contraception, drugs, death). Adults were always amazed how well-behaved and mature me and my brother were. But we still did stupid and dangerous stuff as adolescents, like playing with fireworks, making lighters explode, huffing nitrous crackers, smoking, cycling around drunk, painting graffiti, etc. There’s really nothing parents can do, other than pray for the best.
- tremon 6y ago
  There’s really nothing parents can do, other than pray for the best. I wish this attitude was more prevalent, both among parents and lawmakers. More and more, it seems we're legislating against any possible turn of fate that could happen, and both personal freedom and a sense of personal responsibility suffer for it.
- chokeartist 6y ago
  > But we still did stupid and dangerous stuff as adolescents, like playing with fireworks, making lighters explode, huffing nitrous crackers, smoking, cycling around drunk, painting graffiti, etc. Lol sounds like we had a common background. There were so many close calls looking back that I just shake my head and am thankful no one ever got seriously hurt.
rgoulter 6y ago
Sure. But I would believe social media exasperates this. With social media, you're not just showing how brave you are with a stupid dare compared to a few of your friends, but competing against the most dangerous thing you've seen.
- simion314 6y ago
  I think the effects could be larger but the children are not more dumb because of the media. I am sure similar stupid things were done in the past but you would not known that some child in a far away country died because of a stupid challenge. Maybe off topic, but some of the risky stuff I done with my bike were when I was alone and were not to show of, it was all about going fast or going fast on dangerous path or just not paying attention.
avereveard 6y ago
> children were always like this however we're in a somewhat novel situation as mistake past will follow you in caches and meme dumps for years and years, well into adulthood. sure it's comparable to having had a bad reputation back in the days before internet, but you could just escape it by changing town or correct it if your social circle was small enough. with internet, no such luck, getting past one's young self mistake is going to be quite harder.
- yorwba 6y ago
  The internet equivalent of skipping town is deleting all your accounts and signing up for new ones, perhaps on other platforms.
  - amelius 6y ago
    This might be a difficult thing to do, though, for someone who is addicted, and deeply invested in different online relationships.
  - avereveard 6y ago
    you're stuck at a 199x model of internet social interactions, these company are posing as stand in replacement for personal interactions and as such are trying their hardest (and succeeding, even, especially in the younger population with is the subject of this discussion) in registering people with their true identities.
    - yorwba 6y ago
      That makes the similarity to physical social interactions stronger, not weaker. Most people live their offline lives under their true identities.
      - avereveard 6y ago
        The image you phisically project in other people head is a) ephemeral b) local c) not indexed and d) inaccessible from unrelated third parties I can't believe I've to explain this...
matwood 6y ago
I grew up mostly before the internet and we did lots of stupid things as kids, including this exact black out stunt. What I think social media has done though is push people beyond their normal internal brakes. You and your friends might push each other to do risky things, but friends tend to care about one another internally. Anonymous people on the internet don't know you or really care about you, so it's easier for them to push people into riskier situations.

layoutIfNeeded 6y ago

My parents were progressive - they considered me and my brother as little adults basically, and they’ve educated us on many serious topics early on (sex, contraception, drugs, death). Adults were always amazed how well-behaved and mature me and my brother were. But we still did stupid and dangerous stuff as adolescents, like playing with fireworks, making lighters explode, huffing nitrous crackers, smoking, cycling around drunk, painting graffiti, etc. There’s really nothing parents can do, other than pray for the best.

tremon 6y ago
There’s really nothing parents can do, other than pray for the best. I wish this attitude was more prevalent, both among parents and lawmakers. More and more, it seems we're legislating against any possible turn of fate that could happen, and both personal freedom and a sense of personal responsibility suffer for it.
chokeartist 6y ago
> But we still did stupid and dangerous stuff as adolescents, like playing with fireworks, making lighters explode, huffing nitrous crackers, smoking, cycling around drunk, painting graffiti, etc. Lol sounds like we had a common background. There were so many close calls looking back that I just shake my head and am thankful no one ever got seriously hurt.

rgoulter 6y ago

Sure. But I would believe social media exasperates this. With social media, you're not just showing how brave you are with a stupid dare compared to a few of your friends, but competing against the most dangerous thing you've seen.

simion314 6y ago
I think the effects could be larger but the children are not more dumb because of the media. I am sure similar stupid things were done in the past but you would not known that some child in a far away country died because of a stupid challenge. Maybe off topic, but some of the risky stuff I done with my bike were when I was alone and were not to show of, it was all about going fast or going fast on dangerous path or just not paying attention.

avereveard 6y ago

> children were always like this however we're in a somewhat novel situation as mistake past will follow you in caches and meme dumps for years and years, well into adulthood. sure it's comparable to having had a bad reputation back in the days before internet, but you could just escape it by changing town or correct it if your social circle was small enough. with internet, no such luck, getting past one's young self mistake is going to be quite harder.

yorwba 6y ago
The internet equivalent of skipping town is deleting all your accounts and signing up for new ones, perhaps on other platforms.
- amelius 6y ago
  This might be a difficult thing to do, though, for someone who is addicted, and deeply invested in different online relationships.
- avereveard 6y ago
  you're stuck at a 199x model of internet social interactions, these company are posing as stand in replacement for personal interactions and as such are trying their hardest (and succeeding, even, especially in the younger population with is the subject of this discussion) in registering people with their true identities.
  - yorwba 6y ago
    That makes the similarity to physical social interactions stronger, not weaker. Most people live their offline lives under their true identities.
    - avereveard 6y ago
      The image you phisically project in other people head is a) ephemeral b) local c) not indexed and d) inaccessible from unrelated third parties I can't believe I've to explain this...

matwood 6y ago

I grew up mostly before the internet and we did lots of stupid things as kids, including this exact black out stunt. What I think social media has done though is push people beyond their normal internal brakes. You and your friends might push each other to do risky things, but friends tend to care about one another internally. Anonymous people on the internet don't know you or really care about you, so it's easier for them to push people into riskier situations.