Are people too fragile today?

[Kneedragger]

I blame anti-bullying. The pussification of America..

Also people seem to be offended and throw fits over everything..

 

[polarmystery]

Yes. Too many PC terms. Thin-skinned people. People are offended by everything, and need to get coddled all the time.

It's really terrible.

 

[Grooveriding]

I think it's a direct byproduct of social media's emergence and growth. People who gravitate to these mediums strongly become comfortable airing every last detail of their lives, to the point they start putting out all their insecurities and every finite detail of their personal lives. Once they've crossed that barrier they start expecting those details to be respected and pandered to.

I don't think people are any softer than in the past, unless these public disclosures amount to that? There is something to be said for keeping your personal shit close, and not putting it all out there, being a strength. But social media has a lot of people thinking that since they've decided to share their personal opinions on everything from Chewbacca mom, Trump's hair and the latest hit piece outrage, that these views should be pandered to and respected by all by virtue of them being out there.

I'm glad I missed the social media thing in my teen years by about 5 years or so. I just don't get it. I like Facebook only for seeing what's up with old friends from school I don't see anymore, but don't share my life details and updates on every last dump I've taken for the day on there.

 

[Sheep221]

They are not much more fragile than in the past, internet exchanges realtime information, including bullying and abuse, it depends on everyone how they deal with these things IRL or online.

 

[biostud]

Don't use social media.

 

[SP33Demon]

1) Less physical exercise due to tech boom emergence and social media that dumbs them down
2) Less sleep due to #1 and same low wages for working harder + longer hours
3) Emergence of women in the workplace/society telling men they need to be more feminine/less aggressive and consequently political correctness and the self entitlement era
4) Big pharm/doctors telling us we need more chemicals to pacify/sedate us because there's something wrong with us when there isn't
5) Declining Test in men, increasing Test in women
6) Standard of living rising due to cheap chinese goods so kids have never had to suffer like in past generations (which made them tougher to adversity)
7) Fracture of the nuclear family due to 1-5 = less love and more anger because nobody knows who their baby daddy is and even if they do, daddy didn't love them enough

The result: A plugged in, coddled, lazier, dumber (due to social media) and more feminine society that is angrier than their parents, sleep deprived, and pumped full of chemicals (antidepressants, alcohol, weed) to try and suppress their feelings and gain acceptance in an era because of less social interaction.

 

[master_shake_]

when everyone is a winner nobody wins.

losing is a life lesson.

you're supposed to learn from it.

 

[sdifox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY

 

[zinfamous]

Yes

 

[brianmanahan]

Yes

lemee just reach into my bag of freedomsbeat threads...

 

[Mayne]

 

[MongGrel]

You can't even properly nuke someone these days without someone running to a safe zone and whining

Those wild and crazy Japanese.

 

[brianmanahan]

You can't even properly nuke someone these days without someone running to a safe zone and whining

 

[TheGardener]

when everyone is a winner nobody wins.

losing is a life lesson.

you're supposed to learn from it.

I want my participation trophy. I mean, I didn't have to have actually participated, do I?

One offended person trumps 1,000 people who didn't get that there was a micro-aggression. One person in a city objects that snowflakes pasted on a classroom wall or in a park, violates their anti-religious constitutional rights. So the city cancel all holiday events for the kids.

 

[TallBill]

I want my participation trophy. I mean, I didn't have to have actually participated, do I?

One offended person trumps 1,000 people who didn't get that there was a micro-aggression. One person in a city objects that snowflakes pasted on a classroom wall or in a park, violates their anti-religious constitutional rights. So the city cancel all holiday events for the kids.

Or more realistically, one person in a city knows constitutional law and a few hundred pretend to be outraged in the name of all citizens of said city.

 

[zinfamous]

I want my participation trophy. I mean, I didn't have to have actually participated, do I?

One offended person trumps 1,000 people who didn't get that there was a micro-aggression. One person in a city objects that snowflakes pasted on a classroom wall or in a park, violates their anti-religious constitutional rights. So the city cancel all holiday events for the kids.

snowflakes, really? Has that happened?

Sounds as secular as secular can be.

 

[Muse]

people need more calcium and iron in their diets

I take a calcium pill daily, drink a LOT of milk and have a 1 lb. tub of pre-washed spinach in the fridge. I think I have that covered.

 

[zinfamous]

I take a calcium pill daily, drink a LOT of milk and have a 1 lb. tub of pre-washed spinach in the fridge. I think I have that covered.

need more potassium, too. FYI, you can get nearly as much iron in water melon as you can in spinach...plus it doesn't taste like ass like spinach does.

 

[Muse]

Don't use social media.

Pretty much. Anandtech Forums is as much social media as I get, really. I have a Facebook account but rarely hit it. It's like pissing in the wind. It may work for some people, so far it doesn't work for me. I have a twitter account, have never used that. Snapchat? WTF is that? Someone told me to try Whatsapp to send pictures on my smartphone, it was a CSR at my smartphone MVNO because the picture feature doesn't seem to work on my phone. Well, I feel no pressing need to do that.

 

[Muse]

need more potassium, too. FYI, you can get nearly as much iron in water melon as you can in spinach...plus it doesn't taste like ass like spinach does.

I've been throwing spinach in my salads. Actually, I have always liked steamed spinach with butter on top, but don't much do that these days.

I'll check out the water melon. Thing is, it takes up a lot of room in the fridge, maybe one of those little ones.

I've been eating a lot of bananas for some time. I think that covers my potassium. My doctor congratulates me on my excellent health, he called me a "Kaiser commercial."

 

[TallBill]

Pretty much. Anandtech Forums is as much social media as I get, really. I have a Facebook account but rarely hit it. It's like pissing in the wind. It may work for some people, so far it doesn't work for me. I have a twitter account, have never used that. Snapchat? WTF is that? Someone told me to try Whatsapp to send pictures on my smartphone, it was a CSR at my smartphone MVNO because the picture feature doesn't seem to work on my phone. Well, I feel no pressing need to do that.

I've found that individually blocking low intelligence content providers on facebook makes it more palatable. I'm not talking about stuff that I disagree with, but stuff that is just mindless ad-generating content.

 

[TheGardener]

snowflakes, really? Has that happened?

Sounds as secular as secular can be.

I seem to remember that, but failed to come up with a citation. Searching on the internet for what I want is getting harder and harder.

Good to know that Cornell still allows snowflakes.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015...-nativity-scenes-mistletoe-not-inclusive.html

 

[brianmanahan]

people need more calcium and iron in their diets

and less sodium, because they're already so salty

 

[Elixer]

1) Less physical exercise due to tech boom emergence and social media that dumbs them down
2) Less sleep due to #1 and same low wages for working harder + longer hours
3) Emergence of women in the workplace/society telling men they need to be more feminine/less aggressive and consequently political correctness and the self entitlement era
4) Big pharm/doctors telling us we need more chemicals to pacify/sedate us because there's something wrong with us when there isn't
5) Declining Test in men, increasing Test in women
6) Standard of living rising due to cheap chinese goods so kids have never had to suffer like in past generations (which made them tougher to adversity)
7) Fracture of the nuclear family due to 1-5 = less love and more anger because nobody knows who their baby daddy is and even if they do, daddy didn't love them enough

The result: A plugged in, coddled, lazier, dumber (due to social media) and more feminine society that is angrier than their parents, sleep deprived, and pumped full of chemicals (antidepressants, alcohol, weed) to try and suppress their feelings and gain acceptance in an era because of less social interaction.

Well said.

Add in whining because of #1 & #2, and you got today's teenager that have no drive to do anything besides what their "friends" say on social media.

 

[zinfamous]

I seem to remember that, but failed to come up with a citation. Searching on the internet for what I want is getting harder and harder.

Good to know that Cornell still allows snowflakes.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015...-nativity-scenes-mistletoe-not-inclusive.html

I think it's a good target for Christians to go after, the more I think about it. Complain that snowflakes are a symbol of the pagan religious holiday Saturnalia and fight to get them removed from public displays. Sort of a "if we can't have fun, neither can you!" battle of spite.

...but then it would get really strange because Christians would be theoretically obligated to continue the fight against Christmas trees, because those are also representative of pagan celebrations. (being that they co-opted Saturnalia for Jesus day).

Then things will get really entertaining. :hmm: