and not all the pieces fit. The older I get, the more I realize that fact. Now, some are not going to like this but, what I do see is the biggest problem in social media is Facebook. It might seem that it fits into society from a social media aspect, but it doesn't. It's actually been the root of a lot of hurt, pain and suffering from the so-called experts. And the closest to it is Tik Tok and their "hacks". But still not inflicting the damage that Facebook has done.
First,
you must have and then apply some basic common sense. The generations today just do not have basic common sense. I'll use one of my most favorite examples where it was said that millennial generation, those born between 1981 and 1996, don't eat cereal for breakfast because they had to wash the bowl afterwards. Just imagine those in the generation that follows, Generation Z, where someone on one of these channels says to rub this in your eye to do this. The example was that the girl went blind temporarily. It has been worse than these two examples by all counts, but hay, it may take a village to raise a child, but today, the village continues to serve up all kinds of wrong information. You do not want to know what the generation beyond Generation Z will be like.
I counted 117 times in one weekend that I heard the word safe used in the news. Keep our community safe, Keep our children safe. Keep our patients safe. On and on it goes.... because, and I'll use the word government as a catch basket, continues to use the scare tactic as a form of control for the adult population. And if the ones with the good common sense are dying off at about 100 a day now. Even with prolonged health care and medication, eventually that generation, my generation, will be gone and what is left behind is the No Common Sense Generations.
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you cannot be helicopter run villages. Kids need to discover things on their own.They have an innate wiring for them from birth. Using the dictionary's third meaning: " originating in or derived from the mind or the constitution of the intellect rather than from experience".
So for those that were ready to pounce on the experience avenue you thought I was walking toward, it is this definition that trumps as it originates in or derived from the mind or the constitution of the intellect rather than from the experience. And that is where helicoptering parents go wrong. They think that they have the experience that trumps the kids mentality.
Having said all that and leading up to this, I think that Facebook is the Evil Incarnate. I have held that feeling since the beginning. Notice how you cannot call a Google or a Microsoft or Apple Help line.They simply do not want to talk to you. They have their forums where users can help you. Come on people, don't you know that when you use these forums you are not going to get real help. The only help you are going to get is more misinformation and if you are lucky and you can spot the red flags when they pop up, you might not loose you identity to a crook.
My generation has lived by one old adage for almost a life time: Let the Buyer Be Ware. That's were common sense and intellect rather than experience alone, join forces to fight evil and return the pieces that don't fit. to the world puzzle.
