Am I the only one whose internet addiction started with my parents not letting me fucking go anywhere
This but I also had no friends so I wouldn’t have anywhere to go if I was allowed
this is a thing! danah boydis a researcher who has been studying social media for over a decade and in her 2014 book it’s complicated she argues that teenage social media “addiction” (which she also contends is like…..not actually a thing) is a result of the fact that “today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation” because “parents argue that these restrictions are necessary in an increasingly dangerous society, even though the data suggest that contemporary youth face fewer dangers than they did twenty years ago.”
as a result, teenagers are reclaiming these lost social spaces (which their parents and grandparents had in the form of mall hangouts, drive-in theaters, after school parking lots, etc) by using social media, where they can continue to “engage in crucial aspects of maturation: self-presentation, managing social relationships, and developing an understanding of the world around them,” aka stuff that teens are Supposed to be doing
do you ever hear the intro theme to a video game and you get really emotional and your heart feels really weak like it’s coming back home and it’s basically like that whole world you love so much summed up into one epic song and you just want to fucking cry a lot because this is the video game for you and nothing else ever can even compare to the feeling you get when you hear that one fucking bit of music
Once you get this, share 5 random facts about yourself. Then tag 10 of your followers.
For some reason thinking about childhood things:
1) I graduated elementary school twice. At the end of 5th grade, i graduated and would have gone to middle school, but we moved, I did 6th grade, graduated and went on to Jr. High.
2) I’ve literally told stories long as I can remember and pretty sure I’ve been writing them since I learned how to write. I wrote a story on the typewriter when I was six.
3) When I was little I used to tell my brother stories about someone stuck in a giant cake-world thing. We shared a bedroom and made our parents nuts because i’d be talking long after bed time.
4) My brother and I also had a story-game where one would tell a chose your own adventure type story and the other person could only use items of a certain letter. G was generally off limits because a gun was too easy to use against monsters.
5) I used to act out Hans Christian Andersen stories with my barbies, especially little mermaid in the bath. Before the movie ever came out. (It’s always made me happy that I read somewhere that Andersen used to act out stories with his dolls too)
There’s that post going around about that one movie everyone saw when they were too young.
Beyond movies, I know there’s other stuff that messed us up.
For me, it was my Dad convincing me to go on Space Mountain at Disneyland when I was like…7? 8? My mom was dubious but I trusted my dad (hah). Yeah I came off the ride crying I was so scared. I woudn’t set foot on another roller coaster until I was 14.
