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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are all these children so anxious? [/quote]

Because they can be whoever they want online/social media then reality smacks them in the face and they don’t know how to have a real interaction or relationship.

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Missing the boat with this.

I think it is more likely that they live in a world where anything and everything can be recorded and could follow them around forever.   Our awkward social interactions when we were in high school were not recorded anywhere and could be soon forgotten.  These kids are bombarded with videos recorded by other people, sometimes without the featured person's knowledge, and played over and over, sent around the world, to follow that person for forever.  You have your shirt tucked in to your underwear? You trip on the steps at school?  It is no longer done and forgotten.  They are growing up in a world that is very different than what we lived in.

I don't know any kids who don't know how to have a "real interaction or relationship" - most kids are under a huge amount of pressure to be involved.  They have to practically invent a cure for cancel or start their own start up  or be nationally ranked in music to get in to college now. The pressures are vast compared to what we faced.  We were doing activities and joining clubs BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE IT.  Very different. [/quote]

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