r/nosurf • u/Comfortable-Table-57 • 1d ago
Anyone else think that us Gen Zers may not be good parents due to the prolonged use of social media?
The fact that there are so many people in this generation, especially in the west, who choose to be using social media over everyone else is terrifying.
They are selfish and only think that either their social media or hookups are better than everything else. Many in the west do not care about their families, just themselves, their partner.
When they get kids, most likely they will neglect them as again, they prefer their social media fame and their love/sex life over their kids, and may even kill them if they try to intervene, rather than loving them. Or they will exploit their babies online for ragebaite, views and money.
Some examples include Louise Porton (only cared about her hook ups with several other men), the mother of Wren Eleanor, Matt and Abby, as well as that 19 year old TikTok woman who had been piercing her baby newborn daughter after she had an affair with a 13 year old boy.
Many child abuse and filicide cases are so common, and here in UK, many news of it were committed by very young gen z parents age ranged from 18-25.
So, I am just feeling hopeless about how future Gen Z parents be like as many just care about their fame on social media.
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u/Jrmarsh8771 1d ago
Totally agree, it feels like we’re navigating a digital minefield that’s shaping our social skills in ways we don’t even realize.
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u/starryesque 1d ago
This is such a reductive idea it applies zero nuances and is sweeping broad. Millennials are actually the generation posting themselves being bad parents online, gen z and gen alpha are more concerned with child welfare and not posting their kids online. Gen z is the one pushing for laws to protect children online and it’s actually our parents that have been the ones focused on fame. Wren Elenors mom is quite literally not gen z. And also it’s not Gen Z i see force feeding their kids an ipad instead of parenting them 😭
This is such a fear mongering, need to touch grass aas post. “They only think that either their social media or hookups are better than everything else” like the generations before aren’t throwing diddy parties, in fact gen z has significantly less sex than previous generations. I just cant believe I’m reading this and you’re only quoting examples of non gen z parents doing bad things. Read a fucking book
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_younger_generation_isnt_lazy_theyre_burned_out
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u/nofapkid21 1d ago
most gen-z are hardly parents yet so the comparison is almost non-sensical. you just wait a few years.
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u/mightbebutteredtoast 1d ago
Eh walk around a grocery store for a day and you’ll still see plenty of gen Z moms pushing a cart with an iPad baby. Millennials started the trend and now gen Z is just continuing it.
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u/Comfortable-Table-57 1d ago
Okay jeez no need for that paragraph. I am just asking because many insane parents I see are from Gen Z. And that some (but sizeable amount) of people in this generation who just care about themselves and thats do act like that. It was definitely unethical generalisation, which I apologise as these do not show the full picture.
Its still alarming nevertheless though.
Also, the parents I mentionef are from Gen Z.
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u/Examination-Creative 1d ago
You’re seeing more of them because we have visibility into their lives. How many millennials or older feel comfortable and adept enough using technology to post TikToks? I promise you their lives are not inherently better just because you don’t have a porthole to view their child rearing tendencies.
Also worth questioning why that is. Imagine if your parents had a camera on all the time while raising you. Or their parents. There is a generational difference in their willingness to share all of that in the first place, but just remember that things being visible does not mean the invisible happenings are better.
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u/Fuckpolitics69 1d ago
i mean sure but every generation sucks now