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Yeah, I’m a member of Gen Z, and you’re right, technology has a particularly adverse effect on this. To your point about communicating through texting and memes, I distinctly remember times where I would be sitting with my friends in, like, a car in a parking lot somewhere hanging out, and basically everyone is on their phones sharing memes with each other. Y’know, instead of talking like human beings. I was admittedly also part of that at times, but I did get tired of it after a bit. What’s the point of hanging out if you won’t even talk to each other? Looking back on it years later, it was complete absurdity.
Another byproduct of this tech-based socialization in my generation, in my opinion, is a decreased level of empathy and an increased level of self-centeredness and even narcissism. It’s not everyone, but too many people are way too focused on curating their image online and sharing every little moment and detail of their lives. I think this naturally breeds at least some level of outsized self-importance. The ones I find particularly baffling are those who post videos of themselves crying or something like that online. I sincerely cannot fathom how anyone would want to share such a vulnerable moment to the online masses, but maybe that helps them. I don’t know.
I’m admittedly a bit off topic to what the post was about, but OP’s comment just made me think of all this lol
Comment by Beard_of_Valor at 22/02/2025 at 15:51 UTC
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Another byproduct of this tech-based socialization in my generation, in my opinion, is a decreased level of empathy and an increased level of self-centeredness and even narcissism. It’s not everyone, but too many people are way too focused on curating their image online and sharing every little moment and detail of their lives.
Point made and well stated regarding image, but I can't accept the individualism specifically as a generational thing. Individualism has been on a global rise for decades, people only giving a shit about themselves.
There's a sort of black hole of narcissism in these vulnerable-moment-sharers, another point well made, but there are some gems in there too[1].
1: https://www.tiktok.com/@desiraekelly/video/7291327433930820895?refer=embed