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What is it about social media that makes teenagers abandon all common sense, reason and logic?

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SW-User
I'm slightly offended by this post lol
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Why?
SW-User
@NJA82 Because I don't abandon common sense or rationality because of social media. If anything, it's social media that helps me gain more knowledge of what's going on around the world.
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Fair enough, good on you, do you think you could explain that to my daughter?
SW-User
@NJA82 What's wrong with her?
NJA82 · 41-45, M
Convinced a boy she liked him with messages, got him to send intimate pics, showed them to anyone and everyone from their school.
SW-User
@NJA82 So she was slandering him?
NJA82 · 41-45, M
Think it was ment as a piss take, because ‘he’s a geek’ and ‘shouldn’t think he had a chance with her’ to be fair some of his messages were very cringy but no excuse.
SW-User
@NJA82 Well that wasn't very nice of her, but he was an idiot to send them in the first place so he kind of deserved it don't you think bud?
NJA82 · 41-45, M
Don’t know if I go that far, but he was defo a bit naive, but he’s a sweet kid and from what I understand he was absolutely in love with her, love will make a young boy do crazy shit!
SW-User
@NJA82 She's a bully and you should reprimand her for that. What she did to him was very dangerous to his mentality. He could be bullied by more kids after that and someday when the shaming and name calling got too much, he could suicide.
SW-User
@SW-User No, I think she deliberately hit on the boy so that she could pry those pictures from him
NJA82 · 41-45, M
Believe me she’s been dealt with, brings me back to my original post, she’s a good kid but good kids seem to go mental stuff through social media.
SW-User
@NJA82 No, good kids don't do that. Bad kids do. And you should be more tight on her about what she perceives on social media
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Everyone know he absolutely adore her and her and her ‘mean girl’ friends thought it was hilarious that a ‘geek’ fancied one of them, think it was a joke that got out of hand.
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Oh believe me I am now, but you have to trust kids til they give you a reason not to, she is a good kid that just made a bad choice. We’ve all done that.
SW-User
@NJA82 I don't give a shit about "mean girls" and anything for that matter. They lack discipline and maturity. I need not to hear any excuse of them for ganging up on a puny kid.
SW-User
@NJA82 If she really was a good kid, we wouldn't be here discussing her poor behaviors
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Aren’t you a kid yourself???
So you’ve never done something you regretted and never made a bad choice encouraged by peers? Sure they lacked maturity but that’s because they’re kids, not making excuses but he did have to send the pics because they asked him to. He should be responsible for his own actions, but he made a bad choice, because he’s a kid! You live and learn.
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User so one lot of poor behaviour makes you a bad person, grow up, he/she without sin...
SW-User
@NJA82 Oh so you're saying all the bad guys in this life are good people with mistakes? What kind of logic is that?

You just talked about what your daughter had done to a poor kid, and now you're defending her that she's a good kid? Oh the fact that you're thinking she's a good kid actually minimizes the damage she did to that boy. You're too easy on your own daughter - no wonder she's a "mean girl" with her pathetic group of girlfriends.

You tell your daughter to grow up and maybe you should too in terms of how you teach your daughters. Maybe you're just butthurt because I call her a bad kid and she happens to be your bad kid.

That's all I have to say.
NJA82 · 41-45, M
OK I’ll take parenting advice from a sanctimonious kid, a series of bad deeds with no remorse makes a bad person, she did a bad thing that was out of character and everyone who ACTUALLY KNOWS HER was shocked because they all know she’s a sweet kid really. If I had a quid for every time some said her and her twin were so cute I’d be a rich man. Get off your high horse and stop pretending your shit don’t sink like everyone else’s
SW-User
@NJA82 Did I say I never made a mistake in my life?? I've been through more than your daughter will ever experience in her childhood. I know what bad and good parenting is like. You're so proud of being an adult that you just look down upon kids. You're like my abusive father whose only argument against me is that I'm a kid and he's an adult so that should mean he knows more than me. That just shows how petty he is - always looking for a quick escape to victory by using his age as an excuse to be the righteous one. Pathetic.

I don't care if your daughter is a good kid. What she did to that boy confirms that she is not to me. And it seems to me that you're taking her mistake lightly. Maybe if that boy got a breakdown and killed himself, you wouldn't see her as a sweet girl anymore, would you?

[quote]good kids seem to go mental stuff through social media[/quote]

Riiiiight. What do bad kids do as the opposite then? Seeing good stuff through social media?

Listen, I don't fucking care what you're gonna do with your daughter. You spank her and do whatever you want to her, I don't care. But you don't just bring up a terrible deed of your daughter to other people and fucking expect them to see her as a good kid. You think she's a good kid? Fine. I don't care. But she is not to me.
SW-User
@NJA82 My bad for misinterpreting the situation, I actually feel bad for the kid now as I agree, at that age if I was in love I would've probably done the same thing.
SW-User
@SW-User Agreed, she needs some counseling for messing with this poor boy and should be reprimanded for what she has done.
NJA82 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Believe she has been very well dealt with, is very sorry and it won’t happen again, just got out of hand you know. She sent the pics to a couple of people and sent them to a few more and so on and so on.
But you’re telling me if a girl asked to see your goods you’d have given her a pic? What he did is actually illegal, what my daughter did was unkind, she is genuinely remorseful about it.