Latest / Student Of Life / The Internet Raised This Generation | Student Of Life Ep 7 (JTT)
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- Tre: If you grew up today instead of when you did, how different would you be? Hi y'all. This week we have another all-star lineup. I feel like I need to actually start paying you guys more. But, you know, we actually have here today with us Tim. And no, his last name is not Horton, but boy does he love those donuts. Jonny Vee: Yeah. Tim S: Yes, you. Tre: all the way from the land of ⁓ I'd like to welcome back Johnny V, the one ⁓ ⁓ ⁓ I'm hey, I'm trying. Right? ⁓ I'm trying to like come up with some like nice introductions. I don't know how this whole thing works, but I'm gonna try something. And I'm nobody. My name is Trey. Hi y'all. Jonny Vee: Thank you. you, thank you, thank you. Nice to see you guys again. Tim S: The one and only tray. Tre: The one and only trick. ⁓ today. Jonny Vee: the only one that I know, ⁓ only Trey. Tre: really? Am I the only tree that you know? Tim S: Right songs. Jonny Vee: You're the only trade that in. Yeah. Tre: Nope. Okay. Well, you might need to get online and look for some more Tre's because there are a lot more Tre's out there. I'm just saying. Jonny Vee: Yeah. Tre: But today, today, Facebook stalking, here we go. We're going back to one of our previous episodes. Research, not stalking research, Johnny. But ⁓ today, let's get into it. Today's title, today's title is How the Internet has raised this generation. you honestly, I will say this one thing. Jonny Vee: our Facebook stalking people. Tim S: Research. Jonny Vee: Thank research. That's right. Tre: I'm not an expert. I've never been an expert in anything. I never claimed to be an expert. of us here, you know, I don't believe our experts, but we all have our lived experience. And for me personally, I don't have children, but you two. Tim, Johnny V, I know you have children. So you'll be able to speak more to this episode and these topics more so than I can. So anybody who's listening, first of all, let's take it with a grain of salt and realize once again that these are our lived experience. We've never claimed to be any type of guru. all knowing beings, we do not have all the answers, but what we do have are ⁓ lived experience. So, Tim, Johnny. Do you did you guys grow up on social media? Jonny Vee: Yes, Not at all. Tim S: I mean not until the what? Well when was MySpace around? It was early two thousands, right? Jonny Vee: Right like 20. Oh shit. I don't know Tim S: Because Facebook was two thousand four. Two thousand? Tre: I think Jonny Vee: Something like that. Tre: Yeah, but but I wanna say it started around that same time. I wanna say that Facebook and MySpace were pretty much and I have to go back and look myself, but the early two thousands, if not like nineteen ninety nine. ⁓ Tim S: Yeah. Yeah, so I grew up on it, but not I think from the very beginning, like jumping into it. It took me probably a good year or so to really like find out about it and start, you know, dabbling in with especially started with my space and then with Facebook, I think it you had to like a school email and all this other stuff 'cause it was built around colleges and universities for networking. Jonny Vee: ⁓ yeah. Tim S: So yeah, I didn't get a chance with that until later on too. So Tre: Yeah, it's crazy. ⁓ when we really think about like how we grew up before social media really dominated, you know, the world and our life, it was wanna say kinda blissful in my opinion, you know? ⁓ y you didn't know what you were gonna get into for the day. You know, you just go out there and, you know, just mill around and play ⁓ in the backyard, playing some basketball or whatever. the not knowing was kind of fun to me, you know, now that I'm looking back on it. Just experiencing, you know, life. Whatever. That's just my how I I look at it. Jonny Vee: I kind of like to think... Yeah, I honestly, I didn't grow up. I think the closest thing, just like Tim, that I got to media was probably MySpace as well. But at the same time, I think to myself now, you know, the saying of ignorance is bliss. And I know there's more to the saying as well. I just can't think of it. Nowadays, I feel like... lack of social media for kids nowadays is innocence. Tre: Mm-hmm. Jonny Vee: because the more social media they're exposed to, the more you see that they are, I guess, more grown in a sense, because they hear too many things. So that being said, I'm glad that we grew up over the times that we grew up. Tre: Yeah, i it's crazy, you know, because ⁓ saying that kids seem ⁓ little bit more mature with social media now. Is is that what I'm understanding? ⁓ Jonny Vee: Not really, because maturity a different terminology. I feel like we would need to find a different definition for what's going on nowadays, because they know about adult things, but not in the sense of they're mature enough to make adult decisions. Tre: Okay. Okay. so ⁓ lessons through world world experiences. So so we're saying that first of all children aren't actually learning. Like like they they have the knowledge they they know of, but they don't have that experience. And and they don't have the, you know, they they can't really make the Okay, okay. I'm just making sure I'm understanding everything that you're saying here. Jonny Vee: Right. Yeah. You're catching it. Tre: Okay, okay, all right. Tim S: Go back to ⁓ playing games on the T I eighty four calculator and playing organ trail on the ⁓ PC desktop and Tre: Everybody gets dysentery. Everybody gets dysentery and dies. Everybody gets dysentery and dies. Jonny Vee: Yeah. Tim S: Well, what's funny is you talk about a lot of the exposure to the more mature and adult related stuff now. So funny story. it ⁓ I remember which grade. We were doing a project on the American government, and there a web page that instead of don't going to dot gov, I went to dot com and you know, there may have been some inappropriate explicit things that popped up on there, which I had no clue that the different domains for dot org, dot com, dot gov, all of those things. but long story short, they ended up having to ⁓ a lot of the IT infrastructure on the firewall for a lot of the sites on there once they realized that. So there was still stuff available back then, but I think it was just media and websites, it wasn't the social networking aspect of it like how it is today. Tre: Hmm. You know, and I'm really looking at experience, you know, growing up. Like I I I miss I I really do miss the the times of being bored, right? And having to go outside, get up, don't just watch TV, you know, like the phones, the smartphones, I mean, that's equivalent to the TV, you know, and ⁓ I don't know. I I just miss, you know, just trying to figure things out and things just coming up like just not knowing. Like it just seems so blissful not knowing. And I and I don't think that kids Tim S: Yeah, just riding to the park to play ball with your friends, go ding dong ditching, you know, just ⁓ you know simple, little things where you're out and about socializing and you're still you're networking, but you're doing it in person and you're ⁓ experiencing you know, live, not virtually through the lens of someone else or you know, you posting that. So you're you know, spending quality time, whether it's at your house, you know, with friends gaming or going out to the parks or or go, you know, anywhere, depending I guess, what age you were at and what you were, you know, experiencing at the time. But Tre: Yeah. So so so, you know, th those experiences that you just said and we do not condone ding dong ditching. but you know, that things that happen, you know, as yes, Johnny does. ⁓ Trey does not John speak for Trey. But, you I mean, it it's it's these social interactions and stuff like that, like literal social interactions that the kids today they're kind of missing out on. Jonny Vee: Yes, we do. Tre: And and it was those experiences, you know, meeting new friends, learning how to interact with people on the fly, you know? ⁓ from the group that you don't know. ⁓ and and now you're having, hi, my name, my name's Tim. That's how you sounded my my voice. Hi, hi, hi, ⁓ name's Tim. Can I be your friend? Will you be my friend? Jonny Vee: Mm-hmm. Tim S: Mm-hmm. Jonny Vee: you Tim S: Nice to meet you guys. Can I play with you? Tre: No. But Jonny Vee: My voice was deeper when I was a kid. It was all hey guys you guys wanna play? Yeah, somehow it went backwards. Yeah. Tim S: And then it and then it just reverted back. Tre: Yeah. Got the Benjamin Button disease with your voice. love it. But know, th those are things that, you know, I I I personally, because like I said, I don't have children. I know you guys do, but I kind of feel sad for this generation for not having those lived experiences, know. Tim S: Yes. Tre: And and just having, you know, that that simplistic trails. ⁓ that right there, as soon as you said that, Tim, ⁓ just brought back a flood of memories ⁓ everybody just getting this like I'm thinking I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it. No, they all died. Jonny Vee: I'm gonna make it. Tim S: I'm still trying to figure out where in the world Carmen San Diego went. Jonny Vee: they made a new series. Not bad, not bad. Tim S: I know. Tre: So I know you both of you are actual ⁓ parents. So if you want to have the final takeaway this setup before we go over to the full package, I'll let you guys have the last word on this. Tim S: Johnny V. Jonny Vee: see. My takeaway on social media and kids, because that's basically what it is, right? My small takeaway on it is it's... is that it's the parents actually, the burden falls the parents shoulders how their kid navigates through social media. If the parent blindly trusts all social media and they choose to let their kid have free range, you'll be able to see basically, actually this quote comes from my uncle. He said, at a certain age, around 13 to 15, you know what kind of kid you raised. So if you let social media raise your kids, again, you probably don't know what kind of kid you raised at that point in time. Tre: Very profound. said that was your uncle? Jonny Vee: That's my uncle, yep. Tre: All right. Well, ⁓ we're not gonna name any names unless you really want to, but ⁓ we're giving him a shout out right now. You know who you are. Jonny Vee: Yes, you do. Tre: Tim, did you have anything that you wanted to say? Tim S: Yeah, no, I agree with the you know, it's a shared onus on on the parents or on the guardians or, you know, whomever's raising the children, whoever they're around. ⁓ ultimately they're gonna be the ones that are gonna be, you know, giving the electronic devices or the access to the devices. but then you have to think about it too, ⁓ you know, it takes a of an effort to you know, sign up for an account on any of the social media platforms. I mean, you it's it's not extremely difficult, but you would think that, you know, your ten year old child that might have a phone for whatever reason is ⁓ not their own email address and their own, you know, ⁓ other accounts be able to sign up for all of this stuff. you know, and my kids they Both of them, they'll occasionally use like, you know, my iPad to to watch something, but I'm usually there monitoring what they're watching and it's not them going on to any of the platforms. So I I don't wanna say it's a hundred percent on the you know, the guardian or the parents. you because ultimately there's a point in time where the the kid, no matter what age they are, they have to, you know, be able to think and I understand your frontal you know, cortex and everything doesn't fully form until twenty five. However, you know, you would hope that they'd have some common sense to, you know, take a second thought about what they're doing. So I it's a tough it's a tough area and mine are still young enough that I don't have to really worry about that yet. But not to say that I won't be here sooner than later. Tre: There it is. are you sure that's your final thought? Tim S: prepping for the time. Jonny Vee: Thank Tre: Well, we're gonna go ahead and take a quick break as we transition to the full package, which is now up and available on Patreon. But if you have some final thoughts, go ahead and leave a comment. 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