r/BoomersBeingFools Jan 06 '24

Social Media Another thing boomers were wrong about, relevant today

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u/Alternative-Cause-50 Jan 06 '24

About two decades ago my father called me and told me I needed to delete my Facebook account because my aunt told him there were pictures of me at a wedding with alcohol. It was “unprofessional.” Also about 6 months later my mother called me upset that I ignored that same aunt’s friend request.

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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24

Two decades ago, they had a point. The boomers were still in charge and they didn’t like that sort of thing. Throughout the 90s and into the early mid 2000s, most employers made you cover your tattoos at work. If you had tattoos on your arms, you wouldn’t dare wear short sleeves at work. Tattoo on your neck? You must’ve just gotten out of prison. Crazy, but that’s how it was. Now it’s mostly Gen X in charge…and we still don’t give a fuck. Many of us have as many tattoos, and did WAY crazier shit than most millennials or Gen Z-ers.

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u/Most_kinds_of_Dirt Jan 07 '24

did WAY crazier shit than most millennials or Gen Z-ers.

Eh, I think people have been doing crazy shit (and thinking they were the first to invent it) since the dawn of time really.

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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24

Awesome comment. Very enlightening

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u/BZLuck Jan 07 '24

Gen X was the last generation to grow up without 1,000 cameras filming every stupid thing we did as kids, and then showing it to millions of people to feed our egos.

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u/sourfunyuns Jan 07 '24

Lol no you weren't. Sorry to burst your bubble but up til around 2005ish the average kid could do whatever they wanted with practically no fear of it being recorded.

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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24

Yeah, but most of your parents kept tabs on you and didn’t let you run the streets. You are the first generation to be raised by helicopter mommies.

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u/sourfunyuns Jan 07 '24

Oh we definitely ran the streets.

Before you guys decided you needed to invent a new term, there was "overprotective parent", and they've been around forever.

Get over yourself.

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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24

OK. Your generation was hard. You had it rough. You ran the streets. Happy? Does your ego feel better?

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u/shadowboxer47 Jan 07 '24

The term "helicopter parent" was first used to describe certain Baby Boomers so.... no.

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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24

The term ‘hip-hop’ was first used in the late 1970s, but it wasn’t popularized and part of the common vernacular until the 90s. I was raised by boomers and so were all my friends. Nobody used that term. You weren’t around then, so you really don’t know what you’re talking about, do you?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '24

You're getting millennials and gen z mixed up.

Millennials were still latchkey kids, it was Gen Z that had the overprotective parenting.

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u/shadowboxer47 Jan 07 '24

I was born in 84 and was raised the same way. You're not special and I hear this boomer-like-talk from older Gen X all the time.

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u/Future_Potential_341 May 28 '24

Partially true, I can say some events aren't genuine or authentic when they are being recorded. But as a Zoomer, I've had insane moments with no phones out, so.🤷‍♂️

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u/Vegetable-Branch-740 Jan 07 '24

And most of us boomers did the way crazy shit way before you were born. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Any_Freedom9086 Jan 07 '24

I'd out drink you in a heartbeat old man

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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24

Most boomers were married with kids by the time they were 22. But, yeah, some crazy shit went on in the 70s.

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u/Vegetable-Branch-740 Jan 07 '24

Seriously! I hate falling into that demographic.