What’s something you miss from the old days?
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A while back, I did a post on my Facebook about how nerve-wracking it was to have my worst fears validated by social media and cyberbullying. It made me miss my youth in the early 2000’s, when I didn’t have to worry about people pointing out my flaws and posting about it. (Yes, the internet was a thing, but people were not as prone to secretly recording others.)
Don’t get me wrong, hateful, critical people have existed since the dawn of time. There has always been judgmental people, but now, we have social media to reward us for making fun of people we don’t even know.
My elementary school bullies were hard to handle, but at I didn’t have to witness thousands of people agree with and support their behavior towards me. People in today’s world, including kids, can send death threats to people they don’t like, and face little to no consequences for it. People can take a video of you at your worst moments
I miss the times where someone could say “no one is watching and judging your every move”, and have that be an accurate statement. We now have proof that others actually are taking every opportunity humiliate people, and nitpick the tiniest things about them. Clothing, speech, and even emotions themselves are no longer a casual part of life. They have become things to use against each other for likes on a post.
Some people don’t even blur faces. They take pride in ruining a person’s life for petty reasons, and get to watch as people rally around them and give them clout. With the amount of people who actively engage in this type of content, can you really blame people for becoming more paranoid and anti-social? I just wish we could all remember what it was like to mind our own business, without feeling the need to go after others in such a public way.
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