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Location: SE Louisiana | Ctrygirl14 - 2015-03-29 9:35 PM
I'm 25. I had Facebook since I was 16 and got rid of it about 5 months ago and honestly its been so nice not having it. I miss a lot of the horse groups on there but that wasn't enough to keep me since 90% of the stuff on Facebook is drama. Its unfortunate that MY generation has nothing to show but selfies and duck face pictures.
I notice the duck faces have slacked off...
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Location: Minnesota | komet. - 2015-03-29 9:45 PM
Ctrygirl14 - 2015-03-29 9:35 PM
I'm 25. I had Facebook since I was 16 and got rid of it about 5 months ago and honestly its been so nice not having it. I miss a lot of the horse groups on there but that wasn't enough to keep me since 90% of the stuff on Facebook is drama. Its unfortunate that MY generation has nothing to show but selfies and duck face pictures.
I notice the duck faces have slacked off...
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Location: Arkansas | sodapop - 2015-03-29 8:32 PM
jbhoot - 2015-03-29 2:40 PM sodapop - 2015-03-29 2:34 PM jbhoot - 2015-03-29 2:25 PM rach.k - 2015-03-29 1:14 PM Attention, attention, attention. I was just thinking about that the other day. I'm grown, married with a baby living in FLORIDA and still feel weird to post pics even in a bathing suit unless I'm ACTUALLY on, in, or by the water lol Maybe I am old... But don't understand that once they post pictures like that they out there for ever. Oh I agree with that for most teens however a lot of the pictures I am talking about are girls in their 20's. You would think by that time they would have grown some brains.
Look at what they see from actors, singers, models, and reality "stars" (I use that word very very lightly) these days. Our society is so sad overall. |
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| pinx05 - 2015-03-29 3:07 PM
CowboyUp!!! - 2015-03-29 3:48 PM
 What about Snapchat??? My boys tell me girls send them naked pictures all the time..the girls think they disappear in ten seconds but these boys said most guys screenshot them real quick and have them...I tell you, this is a stupid narcistic  generation...not all but a bunch...
Yet another reason my kids will not get a phone any time soon. My son or my daughter. No matter how much of a mean mom i am. My 5 year old nephew has an iphone. My 10 year old son thinks it is SO unfair that he can't have one.
My 14 year old doesn't have a phone and he thinks I'm the meanest mom ever. I'll just keep being mean cause he is not getting one anytime soon. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I'm 26. Never got on to the Facebook bandwagon. Seemed like such a waste of time. In saying that, my generation as a majority is sad. The neighbors have a young (15ish) daughter. She and her friends walk up and down the roads in their bikinis during the summer. Waving at any man, young or old, who drives by. Including my husband. It seriously irks me. I was never even remotely that conceited or attention seeking. And it is a negative influence on my daughter, who just turned 6. She told me it was too hot outside, and asked if she would wear her swimsuit outside to play. It may be harmless, but I know where the idea came from.... |
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Location: Texas | I was about to say snapchat is where its at.. you can set the timing down to 2 seconds i think but people are still good about screenshotting them.
And yeah a lot of younger people are getting off FB and onto other apps that we don't even know about. i don't keep up. I used to teach high school and they were jumping ship on FB a few years ago specifically because their parents get on it |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | Selfies irk me. And i sort of get it with the teenagers, but i see people my age (35) and older taking numerous selfies a day. Who has time for that? I've got better sh!t to do than making sure my hair/make up is perfect, then finding the right filter etcI think a lot of it is insecure people fishing for compliments. |
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Location: The edge of no where | There's a really nice button on FB - 'unfollow'. I USE fb a lot for jackpots, information, team ropings....etc. Drama lamas either get unfriended or (if it would be too weird and they would notice) then I just unfollow them. I don't deal with people that post selfies every other day..... post a million baby pics, horse pics, kid pics and I''m great with it. But anyone that posts more that 2-3 selfies a year has an issue. |
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Location: Texas | horsepoor1 - 2015-03-30 11:03 AM Selfies irk me. And i sort of get it with the teenagers, but i see people my age (35) and older taking numerous selfies a day. Who has time for that? I've got better sh!t to do than making sure my hair/make up is perfect, then finding the right filter etcI think a lot of it is insecure people fishing for compliments.
Bingo! Bango! Bungo!
I have family members who post a "good morning haters" selfie, an "at work" selfie, an "ironing" selfie, a "We are going to the bar but we are telling you we are going somewhere else because we are supposed to be sober now" selfie, and "i'm not drunk" selfie. Some of them it is no big deal to see 7 selfies a day. I'm going geeze, yes we get it. |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | pinx05 - 2015-03-30 12:19 PM
horsepoor1 - 2015-03-30 11:03 AM Selfies irk me. And i sort of get it with the teenagers, but i see people my age (35) and older taking numerous selfies a day. Who has time for that? I've got better sh!t to do than making sure my hair/make up is perfect, then finding the right filter etcI think a lot of it is insecure people fishing for compliments.
 Bingo! Bango! Bungo!
I have family members who post a "good morning haters" selfie, Â an "at work" selfie, an "ironing" selfie, a "We are going to the bar but we are telling you we are going somewhere else because we are supposed to be sober now" selfie, and "i'm not drunk" selfie. Some of them it is no big deal to see 7 selfies a day. I'm going geeze, yes we get it.
I like it when someone comments on a selfie like this "OMG YOU'RE SOOOOOO PRETTY!!!!!" and then the person writes back, "oh no, you're the pretty one" or "i look terrible today" um then why the f did you post that pic? STOP IT. PLEASE. I know what you're doing and so does everyone else |
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| CowboyUp!!! - 2015-03-29 3:48 PM What about Snapchat??? My boys tell me girls send them naked pictures all the time..the girls think they disappear in ten seconds but these boys said most guys screenshot them real quick and have them...I tell you, this is a stupid narcistic generation...not all but a bunch...
Im 26, and am always the last of my friends to get on the latest popular social media format. When I heard about SnapChat I was like "YEA, no good can possibly come from this". Sending pics to each other that are supposed to delete automatically, I just knew the younger generation would use and abuse that lol. And yes, you can screen shot and keep the pics. Any young lady thinking she can privatly send a pic has another thing coming. BUT young girls shouldnt be sending these pics anyway!!! I never had the urge to send those types of pictures. I had brothers and I know young boys cant keep something like that to themselves. I wont even send my husband stuff like that simply because you never know who may use his phone and see it possibly by accident. Im guessing most of todays celebrities arent helping the matter. Its definatly a more naive generation. |
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| Bigfoot - 2015-03-29 8:45 PM
I'm not a woman, but an old man. I think it's terrible. Every generation contributes something. This youngest generation brought us the "selfie". That in and of itself says it all.
Yeah, I don't get the whole "selfie" thing. The only selfies I have ever taken have been of my various battle scars. I have a bunch of pics of bruises and wounds, lmbo, but none of my whole body or face. I don't get it. And just who do these folks think actually cares about where they are, what they are doing on an hour by hour basis? Not me, that's for sure. Talk about self absorbed!
And for those who think it is "gone" like Snapchat? It is the younger generation who should be MORE aware that once it's on the WEB it's ALWAYS on the web. (Same goes for anything sent by phone...can you say NSA?)
edited to add. My battle scar pics get sent via, text, to my friends and family mostly as a "what did she now?" thing, they do NOT go out on social media....
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Location: The edge of no where | scwebster - 2015-03-30 3:13 PM CowboyUp!!! - 2015-03-29 3:48 PM What about Snapchat??? My boys tell me girls send them naked pictures all the time..the girls think they disappear in ten seconds but these boys said most guys screenshot them real quick and have them...I tell you, this is a stupid narcistic generation...not all but a bunch... Im 26, and am always the last of my friends to get on the latest popular social media format. When I heard about SnapChat I was like "YEA, no good can possibly come from this". Sending pics to each other that are supposed to delete automatically, I just knew the younger generation would use and abuse that lol. And yes, you can screen shot and keep the pics. Any young lady thinking she can privatly send a pic has another thing coming. BUT young girls shouldnt be sending these pics anyway!!! I never had the urge to send those types of pictures. I had brothers and I know young boys cant keep something like that to themselves. I wont even send my husband stuff like that simply because you never know who may use his phone and see it possibly by accident. Im guessing most of todays celebrities arent helping the matter. Its definatly a more naive generation.
Ever see 'Sex Tape" with Cameron Diaz (it's not a dirty movie, it's hysterical)...... The dang things go to the cloud when you take them on an iphone... we all have automatic backup syncs on our phones to a cloud, do you really think that you're not asking for that to somehow get hacked? |
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| OhMax - 2015-03-29 9:44 AM
Because they think the attention that they get from it is the right kind of attention that they want from the opposite sex.
I had this exact discussion last night while out with a group of friends at a local country bar. At 27 I was the youngest one in the group - we had a good time people watching - the things that even young women wear these days is astonishing and ridiculous, how they look in the mirror and think they look good is beyond us.
Granted, I went to college, I have owned and still have a few cleavage showing shirts, but I've also grown up and realized that the kind of attention those shirts gets me, is not the kind of attention I want. If he can't respect me and see value in my starched button down and dusty boots, then he's not worth my time frankly.
you should see the OLD women at our local "country" bar. They make the young tawdry things look tame. These ladies are just...vulgar looking. And it's sad on both sides. Not to say that I've never shown cleavage, but when you make it a habit and you know better or are young and your parents should be watching what you are doing, anyways, it's just...desperate. |
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