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It may be more “toxic” for teen girls but it’s more degree than binary. It negatively affects the great majority of people involved. Keeping up with the jones
by mc32 5y ago
It may be more “toxic” for teen girls but it’s more degree than binary. It negatively affects the great majority of people involved.
Keeping up with the joneses and in vs out cliques in school are bad enough things that get amplified multiple times perhaps orders of magnitude more in a setting that promotes and encourages negative social behavior.
It almost validates the attitudes of anti socials.
- runawaybottle 5y agoMy parents keep seeing other people’s kids getting married constantly, and it’s driving them nuts. Also their relatives bought new houses recently. They are obsessed and pretty much make me feel like a loser (or worse, evil for not giving them those things), even though I have different life goals. And these are grown ass adults, so god knows how the kids deal with it. One thing I’ll say is that other people have a way of smushing this info in your face regardless of what era. They managed to do it when it was just rotary phones, and they’ll manage to do it now with whatever the internet has. In fact, the real interesting one is when someone delivers food to you in jubilation. They will manage to rub it in your face, so Instagram is at the very least an asynchronous form of showing off that you can try to avoid.