To think teen girls get "nana" old before their time?

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I follow a few accounts on You Tube and Instagram- mainly for their foodie posts etc - but these girls are 18-21 mainly (the big bloggers) and act so differently to my and my friends at that age.

When I was that age, Saturday's were about shopping, maybe grabbing a McDonald's or something similarly unhealthy in town and most importantly getting dressed up and going out for a good dance and to be honest, drinks and snogging!

Most of these girls do video logs where their day is either the gym and then tea and cake followed by a night in watching a box set or reading with a green tea and some peanut butter before meditation before bed at ten.

Now before you flame me, I know this is healthier and great habits for later in life but I can't help but feel your young days are for letting your hair down a bit...but then I think social
Media is their social life so that's probably something to do with it...

I'm with you op.

OP I kind of know what you mean. I spend a lot of time in my work with late teen/early twenties generation, and a lot of them are really pushed at school, neurotic, perfectionist- there doesn't seem to be any belief in second chances, having a go at stuff, getting life wrong but having fun and so on. Also, they have to look Insta ready all the time, and work out at uni in a very serious way. Lots of drug taking instead of alcohol, even to control weight among a few girls.

Some of my nights out at this age gave me an immense sense of freedom and that anything was possible. It was undoubtedly alcohol-related but I don't regret those days a bit.

I'm glad I grew up when I did.

crazycatgall

Bloggers by their very nature are self indulgent self promoting bores. If they had s talent they would write a book.

Blogs are their 15 minutes of fame just like like love island contestants etc.

The content may be slightly better but the concept is the same.

See my rule of thumb reading all mumsnet bloggers and god forbid all the other mind numbing crap on the internet is this! And there a few today on mumsnet.

‘I think I and my life is so interesting,to all of mankind and so absorbing. I want to write a blog

No just don’t. It really isn’t and no one cares.ots all about you isn’t it. You are a failed writer as you can’t actually sustain interest after page 1.

That’s a blog

Bloggers by their very nature are self indulgent self promoting bores. If they had s talent they would write a book.

Very little money in writing books these days. Whereas there's an obvious path to making money, or at least getting free stuff, out of vlogging etc. Surveys of this generation show they are much more money-conscious than any of the previous post-war generations, thanks to growing up after the financial crash.

It is very hard to take millennials seriously.

They claim they are so hard done by and will never afford a house, yet blow tons of money on hipster vegan lattes, designer clothes, and extravagant holidays.

You know when someone makes a mild observation about a social phenomenon?
They are just commenting and curious. It's so peculiar to snarl "why do you care what other people do? Jealous!)
It's actually a very human trait to ponder about the way other people live. It's called having an interior life. Some of you should get one. They're good.

Anyhoo..I think probably vloggers are very conscious of what they show you, but yes 20 year olds do seem quite sensible.
As a parent, I'm glad, but I do get you OP. It's not about alchohol, just letting your hair down, having a laugh and a dance and yes snogging.
I used to go clubbing a couple of times a week and had a pee in a bush yesterday though so, I can't relate to the kids at all!

It is very hard to take millennials seriously.

OP is talking about generation Z not millennials.

1. Why on earth do you follow teenagers on instagram and youtube? Sounds like a sure-fire path to despair.

2. Instagram celebs and youtubers are not representative of most normal people.

3. If going to the gym then watching tv with a green tea is fun for them, then why would they want to go out drinking alcohol? Actually, the very fact that oldies like the OP think that going out drinking alcohol is fun and cool is probably why they don't like doing it. Sorry OP, you're out of touch.

Thankfully 😅 milleniels have parents who made money from Thatchers house owning boom and can give them house deposits.

But whisper as they love the twat Corbyn.

Not my lot as they are far too sensible but hey

I am generation X with generation Z children, I was a young when I became a Mom in my early 20s.

We don't have the clash that goes on between millennials and the baby boomers. Our children don't have contempt for us and we don't have it for them.

Generation z???

What’s that then?

But whisper as they love the twat Corbyn.

One of mine saw Magic GrandPa in person, realised he's unhinged and not the same in person as in the media.

Sorry so generation X and z??

Make you fucking minds up

Millennials are generation Y.

Oh my millenials are old 2nd and 3rd older kid moving back home after uni.

We and they are saving for a house deposit.

We gifted d1 with his. We have 2 younger dds to help.

Never ever has there been a circumstance where parents are still responsible for adults financially, emotionally and practically in my
Opinion.

I absolutely think it’s failure of policy regards house prices but above that a more cosseted helicoptered and spoon fed generation I don’t think had been born. And I don’t blame them for that.

Seasawride How have you managed never to hear of Generation X? It's been a well known term since the early 90s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_generations

The exact years vary a bit depending on who's defining, but generally
Boomers born post WWII - early 1960s
Generation X early/mid 1960s - early 1980s
Millenials early 1980s to mid 90s
Generation Z mid/late 90s - 2010ish

American cultural ways of defining them also include remembering key events, e.g. you're a Millenial if you were too young to remember the Challenger disaster, Gen Z if you were too young to remember 9/11 etc

I guess it’s about whether they’re actually enjoying doing these wholesome and healthy things, or feel frightened that they can’t let their hair down because of the social media shaming/peer pressure. I think it’s more the latter - so many expectations and so much scrutiny.

Can't say any of the 20 something's I am connected with would go near green tea unless it was part of some hipster cocktail! Even the ones in their 30's are doing the same where there are no family commitments!

OP, your post just makes you sound like every elderly, bewildered person down the millennia looking at the lifestyle choices of the younger generations.
And to another poster, no, we are not a long time old. People in their 50s to 70s spend huge amounts of time and money desperately avoiding being seen as old.
I’m in my late 50s with children in their 20s. Their choices are not sad or lacking in freedom, just different to mine.

Yeah, I'm not convinced they really enjoy this stuff as much as they let on. And they are missing out on joyful communal experiences.

Like lots of people, I used to go to clubs, just drink tap water (no drugs or alcohol! Or just 1 drink) and still have an amazing time getting sweaty and dancing and singing along to the songs with my mates.

The photos aren't necessarily super photogenic, but we look really happy.

When my kids are old enough for Instagram I want photos of them beaming, and their hair stuck up at funny angles and their mate pulling a weird face at the back.

Then I'll believe they're actually having fun.

If its interspersed with a hand felted rug they're proud of, that's fine and I will be damn proud of them, but I'll be gutted if they feel their entire 'public' life has to be posed at all times to look perfect.

It's not a healthy approach to living life.

You cannot get pissed these days: the results will be on social media.
There does seem to be a health drive but the results are good and we are all getting fatter.
Kids are competing in a global, not st a local level anymore. They need to do better otherwise someone else will be ahead of them in the queue.

You are a failed writer as you can’t actually sustain interest after page 1

That’s nonsense. I blog. I get paid heftily for it. I would like to write a book at some point but in a genre nothing to do with the various blogs I write.

I dislike the tiresome analogies that “uni is for living” with the inference that getting wasted is essential.

I’ve had some amazing nights out, been to gigs. Never been drunk.

Dd is 23. She rarely drinks. Goes to work (new job - very proud ). Goes to the gym. Her idea of a good night is playing D & D with her friends.

I don't she's ever been clubbing. We're in a city so it would have been easy for her to go if she'd wanted to.

She did have a bit of a drinky phase when she was about 16 but it was a pointless act of rebellion as I didn't mind.

When my parents were early 20s, their idea of a good night was a jazz venue with music. Drinking didn't feature very much.

It hasn't always been a culture of drinking.

It’s not necessarily about the drinking, but about feeling enough freedom to not be 100% photogenic in order to fit some perceived social media ideal.
As a PP said, where’s the beaming smiles and carry-on, rather than the stylised pouting or the ‘we are having an AWESOME time’ zany face that’s just put on for the photo.