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Gen Z

Gen Z?

  • Put the device away and look where the hell you are going

    Votes: 15 44.1%

  • Sound

    Votes: 8 23.5%

  • The doomed generation

    Votes: 17 50.0%

  • Envious glances at a millennial's cream cheese and avocado toast

    Votes: 5 14.7%
  • Total voters
    34
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Billy Dean said:
I certainly wouldn't like to be a young person today. Friend of mine has a 12 year-old and he's the only kid in his year who doesn't have a mobile and he's basically ostracised for it. All the kids are playing sort of together but with their phones in break times, so he's kind of excluded. Probably the right thing in the long run that he doesn't have one but must be hard for him.
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I don't see a problem with them having them at that age, mainly for safety purposes. But they need to be responsible with the usage. I think its worse that he's ostracized as the only one without one!!
 
Tramps_mate said:
I'm teaching my kids about real life. I explain, money, loans, interest rates, university value, working, mortgages, etc etc.. Its a shame a lot of parents don't really.
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This should all be taught in schools, and the burden shouldn't be placed at the feet of parents who already have a difficult jobs as it is in this current financial climate.

Nobody should be shamed for living with their parents into their late 20's these days. All the other stuff comes with age.
 
Tramps_mate said:
I don't see a problem with them having them at that age, mainly for safety purposes. But they need to be responsible with the usage. I think its worse that he's ostracized as the only one without one!!
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Haha yeah maybe. Definitely not nice to be an outsider at that age.
 
Baines' left foot said:
They're the first generation to be born in to a social media world.

We all know that social media is harmful if overused and abused, but most of these kids will get a phone before they're a teenager with unregulated and unfiltered access to literally everything. I think it's very easy to underestimate the damage this causes to developing minds. I'll never forget seeing the Ken Bigley and Eugene Armstrong beheadings aged 15. They really messed me up for a bit.

Not to mention the draw of being a social media celebrity must be pretty strong considering the lack of other options out there.

In all seriousness, though, I'm getting really sick of the same demographic of people sticking the boot in to a generation forced to pay £600+ a month to house their whole lives in a fking bedroom with no hope of prosperity. Some people really have absolutely no idea how hard life is for young people.

Some people seriously need to educate themselves. The statistics are all there. They just need to read them.
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I've seen more than enough for anyone. Truely sickening.. I desperately hope my kids never come across stuff like that any more. Although internet filters are much much better than in the 90's when a quick search found anything...

On kids of today. In my industry, Engineering/construction. I see a huge amount of newly qualified graduates working for various consultancies and main contractors, and more and more we are seeing their reluctance to work. Not in general, but in the way of getting stuck in when on site visits. They want to be sat in the warm and staring at a screen, and have refused to go out on site to inspect works or do audits, because its cold!! AND you cant say anything because they go to HR then.. Seen it over and over and over, more and more. I've actually seen grads refusing to help when asked to lift things or get things for the drillers/fitters etc. They literally don't want to get dirt on their hands or PPE!! Its quite bad really.

Obviously not everyone is like that. But there is still plenty..

I think as we all know its a generational mindset and how people have been brought up. But I see it as a shame.
 
Charro said:
This should all be taught in schools, and the burden shouldn't be placed at the feet of parents who already have a difficult jobs as it is in this current financial climate.

Nobody should be shamed for living with their parents into their late 20's these days. All the other stuff comes with age.
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Absolutely!!!

No one needs to learn in depth triganometry or formulaic equations at high schoool any more. We have calculators for that. (and I actually loved maths!)

More needs to be done about preparation for real world life!
 

Billy Dean said:
I certainly wouldn't like to be a young person today. Friend of mine has a 12 year-old and he's the only kid in his year who doesn't have a mobile and he's basically ostracised for it. All the kids are playing sort of together but with their phones in break times, so he's kind of excluded. Probably the right thing in the long run that he doesn't have one but must be hard for him.
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Kids in Liverpool are being bullied because they don't wear those horrendous £200 Nike trainers.

Add to that most of them are being dropped off in Range Rover sports. Most of them look up to that dolled up tart who was with that cashman.
 
Baines' left foot said:
They're the first generation to be born in to a social media world.

We all know that social media is harmful if overused and abused, but most of these kids will get a phone before they're a teenager with unregulated and unfiltered access to literally everything. I think it's very easy to underestimate the damage this causes to developing minds. I'll never forget seeing the Ken Bigley and Eugene Armstrong beheadings aged 15. They really messed me up for a bit.

Not to mention the draw of being a social media celebrity must be pretty strong considering the lack of other options out there.

In all seriousness, though, I'm getting really sick of the same demographic of people sticking the boot in to a generation forced to pay £600+ a month to house their whole lives in a fking bedroom with no hope of prosperity. Some people really have absolutely no idea how hard life is for young people.

Some people seriously need to educate themselves. The statistics are all there. They just need to read them.
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Bravo, superb post.
 

Just as every sibling is born into a different family, every generation is born into a different world. Most generations are simply responding to and trying to cure the ailments created by or misunderstood by the previous generations, all the while blind to their own issues. It's disingenuous to suggest that one generation is "better" than the others, but some create far worse outcomes, even if unwittingly. For example, nobody in America has yet been able to fix the problem of guns, but my kids have all grown up in an age of constant threat of school violence and they seem set to finally handle this problem; my God speed them on their way.
 

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