Do you think that young people today are under more pressure?

[E-Man]

You always hear the phrase "kids these days" before or after someone makes sweeping generalizations of entire generations. I tend to say it myself sometimes too, so I'm not going to act like I don't. There is always older people saying something about how things were much better when they were growing up, and how the new generation is going to ruin the world. This has been going on since the beginning of time, so it's nothing new. Thinking about the current state of today's communication, could this mentality be putting more pressure on young people?

The thing about communication is awareness. We are armed with so much information nowadays, and we have access to gain even more than what we once could. Kids growing up now hear so much about what someone else does, that it can make their personal strides seem insignificant. Hell me graduating with a 4.0 didn't seem like **** compared to Lebron signing a $90 million dollar shoe contract, and being a number one NBA draft pick the same year. I'm not saying that I was jealous of the guy. I am happy that he could do what he loved while being handsomely rewarded, but I'd be lying to tell you that I didn't put even more pressure on myself after that. I couldn't just be some ordinary smart guy. I had to change the world some how, and it was really frustrating when you've got multiple people telling me what I needed to do at the same time. Not only did I feel pretty small compared to Lebron, but now all the resident experts wanted to control what I wanted to do instead of acknowledging what I did do.

I think another big thing about having more communication is that it gives more ******** info for people to be know-it-alls. There are always older people trying to tell young people what they need to do, and many times that advice is some of the dumbest stuff possible. I have found that many of these older people are some of the most ornery people with entitlement complexes. Give them new information, and they run with yanking you in 50 different directions. Too many young people have too many old people in their ear telling them what to do with their life, and it's not always in their best interest. I think when kids hear this stuff, they feel even more pressure than before. Back in the old timers' day, you had a set path of working somewhere, meeting your spouse somewhere, and raising your kids by whatever tradition it was. Now you've got 100 different things you can do with your life, you've got 15 people telling you to do 100 different things, and new information is changing daily that gives them 100 more different things to tell you.

So what do y'all think? Are young people under more pressure nowadays? Do you disagree, and why?

 

[Kelly]

Not really, I just think the pressures are different.

 

[SpeterMan3]

I know that kids are under a lot of pressure. I'm 15, I know. I can't say if it's more because... well, I'm 15. But the kis around me do have a lot of pressure. What scares me is that many of them don't seem to be reacting to it at all and just trying to coast along. I'm not under as much because I'm being brought up as a Jehovah's Witness and it makes things so much easier and clearer for me personally, but the kids around me are in a sort of scary state when I think about it. In a few years, who knows how they'll end up and respond to the pressure, but now I can't say.

 

[Wolfwood]

Not really, I just think the pressures are different.

Same here, I think generally speaking the pressures have remained relatively the same. It's just with technological advances and changes in cultures, those old pressures have taken on new forms. I'm of the general belief that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[Alex The Great]

I'm 15 and life is one mean mother ****er. Everything is hard, Classes are harder, Trying to get into college...Life is pretty tough for High School Kids

 

[bullets]

The persepective is always worse for the person dealing with the issue. kids seem spoiled to me these days because of all the new technology but alot of the issues are still there. I'm sure things could be more competitive as well.
I've also talked to some people that lived through the depression and they say this is nothing compared to that , lol.

 

[Mace Dolex]

When I was going to high school in the 90's I remember lots of pressure whether it was from school or your parents reprimanding kids because they only wanted the best for kids.

Some kids in HS don't even know want they want to be and parents force their kids into trying getting into college when college isn't always for everybody.

One hurdle I had to overcome was my shyness which gladly went away once I started working since I missed lots of opportunity for female booty in HS.

If I had a time machine with the knowledge I have now I would glady change lots of things from my youth.

 

[Kane52630]

I'm 15 and life is one mean mother ****er. Everything is hard, Classes are harder, Trying to get into college...Life is pretty tough for High School Kids

please.

 

[Anubis]

Eh, screw them, I got my own problems.

 

[Paroxysm]

Kids are being blitzed with music, movie, video games, fashion and a whack load of other stuff. I think they're just pressured to buy stuff.

 

[Anubis]

Truth be told, it depends entirely upon what demographic you're talking about. Age, race, sexual orientation, where they live, insane parents, no parents. If we're talking world wide? Then yeah. Cuz you gotta factor in the force assimilation to the collective with the teens in china. Or young African boys whose parents are murdered and they're forced to join crazy ass wandering rape gangs, ect,etc.

Just in the United States or other non third world or communist countries? Far less to worry about by comparison, but possibly more so than teens from the 90's who didn't have as bad a recession to grow up in, but they got nothing on those Great Depression teens, who had nothing on people growing up in Europe during the dark ages, and so on, and so on.

So I guess the answer to your question is, depends. But also, I couldn't care less, I got my own problems.

 

[Kane52630]

Truth be told, it depends entirely upon what demographic you're talking about. Age, race, where they live, insane parents, no parents. If we're talking world wide? Then yeah. Cuz you gotta factor in the force assimilation to the collective with the teens in china. Or young African boys whose parents are murdered and they're forced to join crazy ass wandering rape gangs, ect,etc.

Just in the United States or other non third world or communist countries? Far less to worry about by comparison, but possibly more so than teens from the 90's who didn't have as bad a recession to grow up in, but they got nothing on those Great Depression teens.

So I guess the answer to your question is, depends. But also, I couldn't care less, I got my own problems.

exactly.

 

[E-Man]

I think that kids today are blessed to have so much stuff, but they also go through so much psychological pressure because of it. Some might say that they don't have anything to worry about, and that's when their problems get written off until they manifest into bigger problems.

 

[Dark Victory]

From my perspective, I'm under a fair amount of pressure, but life overall is great. I was born into a political family and since my birth I've been forced to be ahead of the curb and then some. Has the constant pressure been a royal pain? Yes, but it's helped me throughout life because I can deal with more problems than most kids my age. As for life, friends have never been a problem and I keep myself busy through extracurricular activities.

Do I think the youth of today is under more pressure than others throughout history? Yes, but we're equipped with much better resources.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Kids are not necessarily under more pressure. I urge one 15 year old to explain to me how he has to get up at 4 to milk cows and feet the animals before walking to school, going to classes on subjects that are PAINFULLY hard (because hey, you don't know the **** yet that's why you're in school) and then walk back home just in time to finish doing all the yard work before you can go down to the 2 bit store and buy yourself a wad of taffy.

Life ain't easy. Wasn't easy then and it isn't easy now.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Life's a ***** and then you die so **** the world and let's eat pie!

No but seriously, over here there is a good few generations that are ****ed because of the recession and our government being ****ing asshats. I mean, kids go to college or university, paying huge fees to do so. They leave college/university with a nice shiny qualification in whatever, and can't get a ****ing job, then are stuck in a never ending debt cycle.

And the kids who are not funded by their mega rich parents are literally ****ed.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Well lets see.....

Four thousand years ago, kids stop being kids by the time they were 8-9 and were expected to go into battle and fight for their lives by the time they were 12-15. Girls had no rights at all and were owned by their parents..

Three thousand years ago, there was not very much different unless you were born in the high nobility in which case you were expected to train to be a warrior. Of course, if born a Spartan you could be expected to have pedophile homosexual relationships with your elders before you hit puberty as part of growing up.

Two thousand years ago, if in the high nobility you had fewer issues but lets not forget if you were a girl you were likely to be married with a few kids before you were 18.

A thousand years ago, if you did not die of starvation you were brought up either as a peasant or a squire to become a knight and you had absolutely no rights as achild and were often in mortal danger....

Five hundred years ago, you had little communication outside of where you lived and sufferred throught the misgivings of the day plus just a little side note your country was most probably at war and you were likely to get drafted to die in battle....

A hundred years ago, you were expected to make your way quickly and only a privelaged few would go to college

So lets see nowadays, kids are often dependant upon their parents until their mid 20s, have medicine for most of the ills of the day and have access to a plethora of information.

If anything, kids are better off today then they were throughout most of history.

Looking atn the recession is a misnomer because it is a very small blip and something we see constantly in every economic cycle.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea there has been recessions before.

But my point is, so many youngsters right now are ****ed through no fault of their own. Straight off the bat, before they have even had a chance to do anything.

 

[WompuM]

I'm a young person under pressure, and anyone who complains about it being too much is a ****ing *****. We haven't even had to go to war against Nazis.

Edit: Wow. Can't believe the censor doesn't block *****.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Kids are lucky as hell these days.

They have the internet.

If I wanted to research something I had to go to the public library and pray they had a book or two on the subject. If I wanted to network, I had to break the ice at a school cafeteria. If I wanted porn I had to share whatever scraps my friends managed to steal from an adult or watch scrambled porn from cable networks.

Kids can't complain when they have the internet. It makes being a teen so much easier.

 

[Nivek]

No, I think they are as delusional, impatient, arrogant, and self destructive than we all were at one point. They just have different toys and media than we did.

I do get irritated at this inflated level of self worth and entitlement that they seem to have, for example that if your just starting a retail job, why in the hell you think you should be pulling in $15 an hour starting, with no previous experience.

 

[Kane52630]

anyone remember 56k modem? yea lol

 

[Erzengel]

Kids are lucky as hell these days.

They have the internet.

If I wanted to research something I had to go to the public library and pray they had a book or two on the subject. If I wanted to network, I had to break the ice at a school cafeteria. If I wanted porn I had to share whatever scraps my friends managed to steal from an adult or watch scrambled porn from cable networks.

Kids can't complain when they have the internet. It makes being a teen so much easier.

I like how the internet has forced adults to have to be smarter than kids. There are now websites used by teachers to scan papers, thesis, reports, etc. for plagiarism.

I have to say I'm also tired of the entitlement of younger people but that's how it's like with every generation.

 

[WompuM]

I would have killed for 56k. I had 28.8k.

 

[Kane52630]

I would have killed for 56k. I had 28.8k.

damn lol, i still remember that AOL sound when you connect