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For 90's kids it was video games that were gonna rot your brain and make you a bad person. That turned out to be false. For 00's kids the new boogeyman is "soc
by rstat1 3y ago
For 90's kids it was video games that were gonna rot your brain and make you a bad person. That turned out to be false.
For 00's kids the new boogeyman is "social media". Likely will turn out false too.
Just sounds like a cop-out way to blame anything other than poor parenting.
- rationalist 3y agoThere is definitely poor parenting at play here, and there are also way more, easier access, brain rotters today. 100 years ago, parents weren't giving their babies electronic pacifiers (tablets with YouTube playing).
- rstat1 3y agoI mean 100yrs none of that crap existed so yea no shit they weren't doing that. But I'm sure there were things of a similar nature that existed then as well.
- hsnewman 3y agoSocial media may not be "bad" but has serious consequences including it's use to try to overthrow an election.
- asdff 3y agoSeeing some pretty concerning NEET "battlestations" online I'd think the parents of the 90s were right for at least some of those kids. Doing anything all day to excess to the detriment of everything else is bad, whether it be TV or video games or social media or whatever distraction comes next.