Bringing up the Gen Z's
"Put it on Facebook" my 7-year-old pleads after taking a dog filtered selfie of us both looking lovingly into a void. "Take a video of me" he begs as he shows off his dance moves he learnt from a online game that takes you into a community where you can choose your own persona, die multiple times and learn dance moves to put on social media for the world to judge. Apart from he doesn't because he's too young. But he will have a social media presence at some point. It's a necessity for the gen z's to have one in this new world. Most of them where born with it. While us millennials who are bringing up these children, for some, social media was introduced to us after we already had our opinions on the world, we already had our routines set without it. It was a fun novelty that allowed us to share stupid anecdotes of our day and share the odd picture or two of a terrible night out. We didn't even think it would last. (Probably because we went through so many fads that died growing up). You needed a good laptop and decent internet speed to make the most of it though.