• leisesprecher@feddit.org
      27·
      16 days ago

      Or at least not permanent.

      I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don’t exist anymore. Camera phones didn’t have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There’s hardly anything left. And that’s a good thing.

    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      14 days ago

      I do feel bad about the younger generations of today. It seems like every part of their life is recorded or streamed now. I’m not sure how comfortable I would have been with that, when I was their age.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        31·
        16 days ago

        That’s absolute bullshit. I’ve never met anyone who turned their bully into a friend while they were still in school together.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          16 days ago

          I did. Okay, not so much a friend, as a guy who would talk to me regularly and treat me and my friends with respect, occasionally tagging along with us. He’s still in my Facebook friends list to this day.

          Back in elementary school there was a kid who was easily twice as big as everyone else. He’d push his way around and demand he get whatever he wanted. He finally crossed me one day, and I punched him as hard as I could right in the stomach. When he stood back up, I did it again. He never crossed me or my friends again, and became generally friendly with us. Bullies don’t concede without force.

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
          10·
          16 days ago

          I had a bully chill the fuck out once we made it to high school, but it turns out that was because of all the drugs.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          5·
          16 days ago

          I turned an eighth grade (Catholic elementary school) bully into a ninth grade (public jr high) “we’re pretty cool now,” likely because he was scared as fuck to be in this rough public middle school, and I’d been getting bullied my whole life so it was nothing different for me.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          3·
          15 days ago

          Mine tried, I was too nice to tell him to fuck off. He was a conservative shitheel by my high schools standards, and that’s a place I took some shit for voting for Obama (class of '13). I ditched all those fuckers when I went to college and came out though so idk. I hope he got better, I didn’t say hi when I ran into him between my fwb’s place and my classes in college though.

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
          2·
          16 days ago

          I managed to turn every fist fight I had into a highschool friendship. Granted, my graduating class was about 40 people and most of my bullies were also athletic teammates so it was pretty easy to turn that tension into something positive.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    273·
    15 days ago

    Nostalgia is bittersweet & I love it as much as anyone but the bigger picture is this: capitalism grows like a weed or a vampire & every generation had freedom without cameras like that until gen-Xers, who were the last, which is why it feels like such magic now even tho then it was just life & being outside

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      19·
      15 days ago

      I’m a millennial. I remember a time without cameras everywhere. I also grew up in the poorest part of WV and I’ve seen my own childhood home in like 10 documentaries on poverty so…

          • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
            63·
            15 days ago

            “Wow, look how the peasants endure, so brave ♥️❣️❣️♥️❣️ now let’s get some Starbucks” vs “Goddamn there’s a lot of rats in this meth lab.”

          • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
            12·
            15 days ago

            the fact you have to ask tells me you’re the good example of poverty.

            not some rich asshole that makes assumptions.

            • theangryseal@lemmy.world
              3·
              14 days ago

              I’m still poor. I don’t care though. I’m rich where it counts.

              I have a gorgeous wife that loves me and kids who love me and can’t stand to be away from me.

              I have 50 bucks in my bank account and I’m happier than I’ve ever been.

              • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
                2·
                14 days ago

                we all make it our own way. IMO if you can do it without shitting on peoples livelihoods(including your own) then you’re leading a righteous life that’s deserving successes and praise.

                good on you for focusing on what you have.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      11·
      15 days ago

      I agree for the most part, but as an early millennial, we had that freedom too. Society didn’t truly go crazy until some time after 2000 in my opinion. I turned 16 that year.

      • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        Early to mid mollenial here with the same experience. It all went downhill when Facebook and flip phones with cameras came out ie. around 2006.

    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      15 days ago

      I have repeatedly felt like taking some emery cloth to my neighbors ring door bell camera, which records me when ever I am in my front yard. There is an expense to replacing cameras and they seem like easy targets, if you go about it right.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      10·
      15 days ago

      Hell yeah. Running from real cops too. This leads directly to the beginning of me becoming radicalized.

      A cop came up while we were skating on an unused building’s loading dock. He had his hands kinda up like hey I just want to talk to you guys.

      He did. He threatened us. He said he was the boss and if we crossed him he’d take our boards, beat us up, and take us to jail. He brought out a paper pad and a pen, and I quote to the best of my memory- “This is my magic pen. Why is it magic? Because whatever I write with it is what happened.”

      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        15 days ago

        One of my most memorable experiences skating on “no skateboarding allowed” property in Jr. High, where a RAC came up and one of my friends said “Um, excuse me, suck my dick sir.” I thought “omg we are fucked” and just ran.

        Another time in HS I wasn’t even skating, I just had my skateboard with me, and had climbed up onto a wall outside a mall loading dock. I saw the RAC’s coming and got worried they’d be dicks like always and ran into a Walgreens in the mall. I thought they weren’t following me and I’d kill time, so I stopped to do my blood pressure check at the machine, then went to piss. On my way out an undercover RAC slammed me up against the wall and said into his radio “we got him!” Another RAC came and started patting me down, and when he got to the back of my Alternative Tentacles record company shirt, right where the words “Stop Skate Harassment” were printed, I looked back at him, and he said “yeah I see your shirt.” They then said I was a cocaine dealer who had just gone and flushed my stash down the toilet. I was like 16, had never done drugs, and was like “whaaaat? Are you crazy?” They let me go but told me not to come back for 3 months. I worked in that mall though so I ignored them.

  • BuckWylde@lemmy.world
    8·
    16 days ago

    That’s all I did during summer breaks as a kid. My friends and I practically lived on our bikes.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    4·
    14 days ago

    It was fun and I feel sorry for anyone who didn’t get to have that kind of childhood. But we almost died so many times. I still have flashbacks to times I was trapping in mud or climbing a huge cliff. I was so lucky I made it past 20