It was a huge mistake to become less vigilant about children talking to strangers. Even online. We went from "don't share any personal information" to people sharing their medical history and sexual proclivities front and center on every social media they ever use.
This isn't cool, safe or healthy. It opens you up to being targeted, either to be cancelled or to be groomed.
Also, anyone who is open to the idea of transgenderism is fucked. No, there are no sane troons. The moment you are just kind of trying to entertain the thought of it being possible, you are screwed.
Now some of you will tell me it ain't so and there are ones who just "want to live like everyone else", but that doesn't work. Changing fucking reality to suit your delusion and everyone playing into your delusions is NOT like everyone else. Nobody entertains my bullshit.
I never figured that one out. I was online as a kid, both on the internet and things prior to the internet, a good bit earlier than most my age. Everything was kept anonymous. I'd have told people online as a 9 or 10 year old to piss off if they wanted anything close to that level of personal detail. I wouldn't even have told them I was a kid. I'm not even sure how much of it I had to be taught by then, because I think like you said you were taught from birth about strangers and random people. I wasn't all that monitored on that stuff either, strangely enough even though my parents were strict in some ways they didn't even attempt to monitor what I was doing on the computer.
Today it seems like there's 6 and 7 year olds going around doing all kinds of stupid stuff spouting out everything they can. Share absolutely any and all personal information on a whim. It's like it's totally okay for it all to be out in the open. Totally a foreign concept to me, I never could get into modern social media as an adult because I'm just not interested in broadcasting my life to the world attached to my actual identity.
I think it has a lot to do with schools pushing stuff like google accounts for school use; it leads the kids to think they don't need to protecy themselves in public.
Kids are stupid. Glad you weren't, but most are, they don't know the dangers, especially if they have a bad home life and are looking for sympathy. Some kids lie about their age all the time to seem more mature, get fake I. D.s, to get in a chat or video or whatever they have to be 18 for. It's not farfetched.
The home life is key to that and something that's all over this thread in general. Parents just tend to suck it seems, and it's been trending in the wrong direction. The stories I'd hear about my ancestors from 100+ years ago with bad parents were at least bad in the direction of they had to figure out how to take care of themselves or starve. Doesn't hurt that in those days I'm not sure there was as much sympathy to be had in the larger world anyway. Now, it seems the bad ones today just coddle their kids so much they never get the opportunity to learn from experience until the shit totally hits the fan.
The only exception I'd make is for a kid or teen or has been groomed or otherwise misguided by the stupid trans-tend. Teenagers are pretty much insane by definition. I won't condemn them until they're an adult man still thinking they're a princess.
Funny how we are forced to take them seriously now.
Like when I was a teen and I said and did stupid shit, my family was like "yeah, fuck that". Especially my older sister. To this day, she is my retard alert.
But a whole bunch of kids have nothing like that, instead they have pussywhipped cowards for parents who think their job is to support their kids in whatever stupid shit they do. They don't dare saying just... no.
I don't support any public communication online unless it's annonymous.
Even if you aren't saying anything questionable, in 5 years, it will be. There's no reason to allow anything you put online to be traced back to you, doubly so for kids.
Beyond that, I think it's more the parents fault for not consistently laying down proper morals around sex and gender roles. Stop teaching your kids the girls and boys are the same or interchangeable. Stop pushing your girls to be ambitious and your boys to be passive. Kids instinctively know what their gender role is and the only way they get confused is constant propaganda.
Social media was never free. We paid for it with the loss of our privacy. And that privacy was protecting everyone from predators, children most of all.
It was a huge mistake to become less vigilant about children talking to strangers. Even online. We went from "don't share any personal information" to people sharing their medical history and sexual proclivities front and center on every social media they ever use.
This isn't cool, safe or healthy. It opens you up to being targeted, either to be cancelled or to be groomed.
Also, anyone who is open to the idea of transgenderism is fucked. No, there are no sane troons. The moment you are just kind of trying to entertain the thought of it being possible, you are screwed.
Now some of you will tell me it ain't so and there are ones who just "want to live like everyone else", but that doesn't work. Changing fucking reality to suit your delusion and everyone playing into your delusions is NOT like everyone else. Nobody entertains my bullshit.
I never figured that one out. I was online as a kid, both on the internet and things prior to the internet, a good bit earlier than most my age. Everything was kept anonymous. I'd have told people online as a 9 or 10 year old to piss off if they wanted anything close to that level of personal detail. I wouldn't even have told them I was a kid. I'm not even sure how much of it I had to be taught by then, because I think like you said you were taught from birth about strangers and random people. I wasn't all that monitored on that stuff either, strangely enough even though my parents were strict in some ways they didn't even attempt to monitor what I was doing on the computer.
Today it seems like there's 6 and 7 year olds going around doing all kinds of stupid stuff spouting out everything they can. Share absolutely any and all personal information on a whim. It's like it's totally okay for it all to be out in the open. Totally a foreign concept to me, I never could get into modern social media as an adult because I'm just not interested in broadcasting my life to the world attached to my actual identity.
Yeah, just seemed like common sense back then.
I think it has a lot to do with schools pushing stuff like google accounts for school use; it leads the kids to think they don't need to protecy themselves in public.
Kids are stupid. Glad you weren't, but most are, they don't know the dangers, especially if they have a bad home life and are looking for sympathy. Some kids lie about their age all the time to seem more mature, get fake I. D.s, to get in a chat or video or whatever they have to be 18 for. It's not farfetched.
The home life is key to that and something that's all over this thread in general. Parents just tend to suck it seems, and it's been trending in the wrong direction. The stories I'd hear about my ancestors from 100+ years ago with bad parents were at least bad in the direction of they had to figure out how to take care of themselves or starve. Doesn't hurt that in those days I'm not sure there was as much sympathy to be had in the larger world anyway. Now, it seems the bad ones today just coddle their kids so much they never get the opportunity to learn from experience until the shit totally hits the fan.
The only exception I'd make is for a kid or teen or has been groomed or otherwise misguided by the stupid trans-tend. Teenagers are pretty much insane by definition. I won't condemn them until they're an adult man still thinking they're a princess.
Funny how we are forced to take them seriously now.
Like when I was a teen and I said and did stupid shit, my family was like "yeah, fuck that". Especially my older sister. To this day, she is my retard alert.
But a whole bunch of kids have nothing like that, instead they have pussywhipped cowards for parents who think their job is to support their kids in whatever stupid shit they do. They don't dare saying just... no.
I can't disagree. This only happens in families that let society raise their kids.
Have you read Abigail Shrier's book? All the girls she talks about who trooned out had these useless cheerleader parents.
Children are insane!
I don't support any public communication online unless it's annonymous.
Even if you aren't saying anything questionable, in 5 years, it will be. There's no reason to allow anything you put online to be traced back to you, doubly so for kids.
Beyond that, I think it's more the parents fault for not consistently laying down proper morals around sex and gender roles. Stop teaching your kids the girls and boys are the same or interchangeable. Stop pushing your girls to be ambitious and your boys to be passive. Kids instinctively know what their gender role is and the only way they get confused is constant propaganda.
Social media was never free. We paid for it with the loss of our privacy. And that privacy was protecting everyone from predators, children most of all.