I was pontificating earlier about how it seems a generation, or age group of people, tends to be vastly different than the one that was born after/before them.
I am not a huge fan of technology and texting. I still believe in politely asking someone out on a date. As opposed to just ‘hooking up.’ I did play outside when I was a kid.
When I was in grade school we hung up yellow ribbons that spelled “welcome home” for the soldiers returning from the gulf war. Ever since I was 5 it was my dream to join the military. I did eventually join, but I didn’t get to do half the stuff I wanted to or thought I would do.
Do you think there’s a vast difference between each generation? Or do you think we’re all kind of the same?
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Each generation change, Values of society change, technology changes, the more people there is on the planet the more hardened people become as many struggle to make a living.
Each generation of new parents raise their children differently and many stop what they hated their parents made them do.
We probably get to much information now, makes it seem like the whole world is going to hell, Funny I was telling someone on Skype yesterday, I managed to live this long, having gone through driving in the no seat belt days, smoking, used to play outside all day with no worries, toys were stuff we found lying around, like old lumber to build a fort, few warning labels on stuff and the days we were fed bread the mold was scraped off and told it would not hurt you. Life changes not always for the better.
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Sometimes the generations vary greatly in idealogy …and often much like fashion the current new cool gen borrows from the older generations…
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I see where you’re coming from @Mountainman. It’s interesting how technology does seem to effect the values we hold as a collective society.
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Very true @flameoftherhine astute observation that you hold.
I’m 50 years old…
What came on my scene was the colour television, the Walk Man and microwave ovens.
This generation has computers, I Phones and home video games.
The kids are the same, just different toys.
But because of technology, I find everyone these days are just traveling around in little ‘friend bubbles’…not really caring to get to know anybody else outside of their tight knit circle.
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I like that 
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But because of technology, I find everyone these days are just traveling around in little ‘friend bubbles’…not really caring to get to know anybody else outside of their tight knit circle.
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I notice this too. In class the other day I asked some classmates if they wanted to form a study group. I could tell they were all younger than me. They looked at me like I told them they had crap hanging from their noses.
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Things change, sometimes I go over my moms house and see my little sister on her phone the entire time( she’s 13 with an iPhone) when I was a kid I would literally ride my bike around the entire city as long as my mom knew my general area. My sisters not the only one with a phone, they all have them now which seems safer for kids, but the things they’re taking in from social media is terrible now days. But on the other hand I see my younger brother at the park all the time when im passing by so its good to see that part of it, and come to think of it the girls always hung out indoors when I was growing up too. So I guess things change but they really just stay the same.
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Very true. Thank you for the response
You can’t forget the fact that no generation wants to be known for exactly the same thing as their predecessors…that would be the same as being invisible/non-existent.
No one wants to be lumped into the same catagory as the prior generation, they want to be different, make their mark on the world, and that can’t be done riding on others coattails.
Each generation makes their own styles that set them apart by doing things that the prior generation wouldn’t dream of doing, with hair styles, taste in music, clothes and food, entertainment and so on, that’s what sets us apart.
Nothing wrong with evolving as long as it’s for the better.
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Yeah, some of the ugliest fashions of the past get resurrected periodically.
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The world changes so people have to face different challenges that other generations didn’t have to face. People are evolving each generation.
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It’s hard to belong to any group when you want to be known as an individual.
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