The younger generation live so cleanly I can barely relate. They should be making sketchy life decisions, not running 5K and eating kale.

In the 2000s Facebook posts look like this

But now they are more like this

It’s very impressive but maybe a bit insipid? Its obvious that everyone is free to do a they choose. Completely. But do they have memories from 17 years ago that still make them laugh like fool, like I do?

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

We are coming to realise that you cannot indefinitely pile cost on the next generation for your own pleasures, whether in terms of public debt, environmental damage, or the medical care you will require later in life. Young people are rebelling against convention and breaking the mould, as they always have done 👍

Given the choice between exercising with my friends or sticking a lighted firework up my bottom while drunk (and which I am unlikely to remember 17 years later), I know which is the more fun 🙂

AdmiralPrune · 41-45, M

@SunshineGirl Public debt, environmental damage, medical care. How exactly.

I think you’re taking yourself a little too seriously. 😉

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@AdmiralPrune Subsidising the pub industry during Covid (and still chucking public resources at a sector that young people are least likely to use) - prioritising private over public transport - supporting the unhealthy lifestyle choices of the older generation through socialised healthcare.

Each generation ends up footing the bill for the previous generation's excesses. Perhaps today's young people just wamt to break the cycle 🙂

AdmiralPrune · 41-45, M

@SunshineGirl Maybe that’s why you’re all so alone and sad and anxious. You’ve lost the ability to socialise. Some are too self absorbed even to procreate. You need safe spaces, trigger warnings and support lines.

You have more connectivity than ever in human history, and yet you’re lonely. You have the highest standard of living, the people before you could only dream of, and yet you’re crippled with anxiety. You need dating apps because apparently striking up a convo with a stranger is weird and inappropriate to you.