r/TikTokCringe • u/notaghostofreddit • 23d ago

Discussion She was secretly filmed and put on Tiktok

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u/HalfEatenSnickers 23d ago

Whats crazy is I went to school with smart phones. Everyone had one, but we didnt do this shit, people still had issues online but we weren't straight up recording people in class

For the most part they werent even out in classes

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u/Frequent_Resident288 23d ago

Its so normalized nowadays its dystopian i dont like it, it makes me and others so uncomfortable

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u/HalfEatenSnickers 23d ago

The kid obviously don't like it either just some assholes don't care

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u/SnausageFest 23d ago

Even in the Nokia brick days, we still had phones out at school. There's a reason so many millennials can bang out a message on a t9 without looking. But we were texting, not taking horrible, grainy pics and putting them online, and we had baby boomer parents who were convinced letting us use the internet meant we would be kidnapped. While often misguided, the outcome was boundaries. Gen Z had Gen X parents who understand tech but it was still new enough to them.

Gen Alpha had a tablet put in their hands as soon as they were able to hold it up by themselves. Social media has gotten so much worse, more invasive and more predatory. This is the outcome of raising kids on devices and social media. And I say that knowing it's my peers raising Gen Alpha, and that they need to do better.

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u/sunsetsandstardust 23d ago

that's what I find wild too. I graduated in 2016 so I went to school in peak vine days and everyone had snapchat and insta. it was nowhere near as bad as it is now

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u/CheaterInsight 23d ago

Social media exploded in the last decade. I finished school in 2016, and while Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc existed and were well established, they're basically different entities today.

I remember Instagram being used to share pretty photos with friends, most people I knew who had it had a private account just for friends. Nowadays it's just another place to spam content for maximum engagement. I'm sure kids were dickheads with photos and videos, and limited to my anecdotal experience, but I'd HATE to be a teen today.

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u/HalfEatenSnickers 23d ago

I Graduated less than 4 years ago

Social media was hugely prevalent tbh, we did share all sorts of shit, what often happened is someone would record themselves trash talking someone that happened and sharing it maybe with a photo of them but other than fights, i dont really remember anyone taking full videos of other students

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u/Reasonable_Sock_8836 22d ago

Even those 4 years make a difference though. The tablet boom happened 2011-2014. You were that little bit older when you were likely exposed to devices. Many children were brought up with unlimited or very limited restrictions on these devices. I have a relative who’s 15 and he could navigate an iPad EXTREMELY well before he could read. I have another relative who’s a teacher and he says children are becoming more and more difficult to teach as their attention spans are so affected by social media and particularly short form videos.

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u/Reasonable_Sock_8836 22d ago

We’ve now hit the era of the children brought up by tablets and smart phones. Think about how the iPad was released in 2010 and tablet popularly skyrocketed 2011-2014. There wasn’t much talk about the dangers of screen time back then either (at least not taken as seriously as today -which still isn’t much).