Youngsters These Days......I Don't Understand!
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My daughter usually lives in Sydney...Australia! She’s 20 and along with her Aussie boyfriend she’s spending 5 weeks over Christmas with me and Ladybenny. There have, over the first two weeks she’s been here, been some moments when I’ve been clueless about what’s going on.
Firstly, they spend every moment staring at their phones, I was prepared for this but not really for the amount that social media plays in the lives of youngsters these days. You-Tube is huge, they look at my 47” TV in wonder at the big, colourful screen. They were delighted when they could watch Pewdiepie (Google him) on a big screen and they could watch other people talk about Minecraft (Google it) like it was the most important thing that’s ever happened in their life....it probably is!
Last night my daughter went out for a drink....Spoons (Weatherspoons) obviously, with an old school friend. She had quite a few drinks but didn’t buy any of them! How was this ask? Well, you just sign up to the Spoons app and ask friends on Insta (gram) to buy your drinks for you....I must admit, that is ingenious!
It’s also amazing that on arrival at Tallinn airport last week she told me exactly which two trams to take to our apartment in the old town and how to buy a travel card before we’d left the terminal.
At 52....nope, hold on...I’m 53!....(have to think about it these days) the phrase I never thought I’d hear myself say is.....I feel old!
Firstly, they spend every moment staring at their phones, I was prepared for this but not really for the amount that social media plays in the lives of youngsters these days. You-Tube is huge, they look at my 47” TV in wonder at the big, colourful screen. They were delighted when they could watch Pewdiepie (Google him) on a big screen and they could watch other people talk about Minecraft (Google it) like it was the most important thing that’s ever happened in their life....it probably is!
Last night my daughter went out for a drink....Spoons (Weatherspoons) obviously, with an old school friend. She had quite a few drinks but didn’t buy any of them! How was this ask? Well, you just sign up to the Spoons app and ask friends on Insta (gram) to buy your drinks for you....I must admit, that is ingenious!
It’s also amazing that on arrival at Tallinn airport last week she told me exactly which two trams to take to our apartment in the old town and how to buy a travel card before we’d left the terminal.
At 52....nope, hold on...I’m 53!....(have to think about it these days) the phrase I never thought I’d hear myself say is.....I feel old!
Gary C said:
I'm 53.in Feb but while I don't really use SM I certainly have no problems with modern tech or apps.
Have a word with yourself
I’m on ‘The Book’, I use Waze and Spotify and Shazam. I just don’t revolve my life around these things, they don’t control me....at least I don’t ‘think’ they do!Have a word with yourself
Countdown said:
It seems really odd to me as well that people do that but if there's an App for it then clearly lots of people do it. the rest of what the OP posted was just normal kids and Social media.
Regardless, I'm not sure why that makes it ok for some randomer on the internet to label her a t
t. Assuming he's over the age of 16 then it's completely pathetic.
Apparently it’s VERY common for people to buy drinks online... I had no idea! Regardless, I'm not sure why that makes it ok for some randomer on the internet to label her a t
t. Assuming he's over the age of 16 then it's completely pathetic.As for the randomer calling my daughter names...well, it’s sign of the times I’m afraid.
Some people can only get their kicks out of abusing other people....must have a small dick!Just spent Christmas and new year with my daughter (she’s over from Sydney) and her Aussie boyfriend.....JEEEEZ that was hard work!
He’s a big Man Utd fan for a start....when I say big I mean TOTALLY obsessed.....he’s constantly on twitter and he mentions football every other sentence he speaks. He wear his Man Utd shirt when they’re playing on the tv or when he’s streaming a game on his phone! He loves Games of Thrones and Harry Potter and some game where you hide coins in boxes all over the country and you have to find them and then put them in another box somewhere else!
I just feel like grabbing him by the collar and shouting....FOR fkS SAKE YOUR TWENTY fkING TWO...STOP ACTING LIKE A TEN YEAR OLD AND GROW THE fk UP!!!!!
But I can’t... I don’t want the snowflakes to melt!
He’s a big Man Utd fan for a start....when I say big I mean TOTALLY obsessed.....he’s constantly on twitter and he mentions football every other sentence he speaks. He wear his Man Utd shirt when they’re playing on the tv or when he’s streaming a game on his phone! He loves Games of Thrones and Harry Potter and some game where you hide coins in boxes all over the country and you have to find them and then put them in another box somewhere else!
I just feel like grabbing him by the collar and shouting....FOR f
kS SAKE YOUR TWENTY fkING TWO...STOP ACTING LIKE A TEN YEAR OLD AND GROW THE fk UP!!!!!But I can’t... I don’t want the snowflakes to melt!
xjay1337 said:
Both things are according to YOU.
Of course they are, why would I speak for anyone else? I see these things first hand and comment on them. The people I’m talking about are going through life in a haze of procrastination and dreams that will never become a reality....in my opinion of course!Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff