"Taking fake candid photos. Instead of actually living in the moment or immersing in an experience, Gen Z seems to fake it for the photo op to post on social media and move on. I don't understand how they miss the irony in this."
"Using words like toxic, narcissistic, etc., they are buzzwords that have lost all meaning and completely undervalue how complex people are." - Crizzy444"
"My 20-year-old daughter takes selfies of her face or sometimes just her forehead and snaps them to people she's not close with or even texts regularly in real life, but she's friends with them on Snapchat and needs to keep a 'streak.' So, every day, they make all this effort for people they don't even hang out with. It blows my mind!!!" -Alex, 51"
"The way today's youth puts everything on social media. I'm a boomer and am so grateful that my youthful behavior is not recorded anywhere. I probably would not have had the life I've had if my past was living in cyberspace. I was an idiot, and all young people should have that option. I suffered for my indiscretions, but once I had moved on from certain people and places, that suffering moved entirely into my head; nobody knew what an idiot I had been (and believe me, I came up with many new"
Younger people often stage 'candid' photos and prioritize image-ready moments over immersive experiences. Common terms like 'toxic' and 'narcissistic' are used so frequently that they can lose specificity and nuance. Many young people display unfamiliar phone etiquette, such as picking up calls without speaking first. Daily social-media rituals like Snapchat streaks encourage performative contact with casual acquaintances. Younger generations embrace identity labels and widespread sensitivity to offense. Older generations worry that constant digital recording erases the privacy of youthful mistakes and changes how interpersonal behavior and reputations are formed and remembered.
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