Generation gaps- I’m old

[jezebel]

I’m starting to realize I’ve gotten to the age where I really don’t understand “youths”.

I don’t get festivals. Why would I dress in a weird outfit and sit in a hot field for 3 days? And pay like $300 to do it?

I don’t get YouTube. I especially don’t get “YouTubers” and their fame. Every freaking kid wants to be famous now for doing nothing. “When I grow up, I want to read cereal boxes on YouTube.” What happened to being a veterinarian?

I don’t get dabbing and that other stupid fucking danced where they swing their arms.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

[meowmaps]

I'm 35. I feel you on all of that. I learned what dabbing was about a week ago and I still don't get it.

[wambam]

I go to a LOT of concerts – it’s why I get up and go to work in the morning lol. But I truly do not understand festivals. They sound like my worst nightmare.

[calamity]

Festivals are for young people to party, do drugs and be away from home.

My kids are finally over "dabbing" but now do 'the flossy'

My kids are dying for a YouTube channel but I am not allowing all kinds of random people watch my kids on there all the time!

[Crystal]

Are you talking that ComiCon type stuff?

If so, I'm right there with you.

But I do love a regular concert.

[dochas]

Let me put my cane down and give you a round of applause. I watch music on Youtube. It keeps me from sitting in a dirty field with strangers. Plus, all good music was done by people who are dead or half dead so they're not at festivals anyway. There is no way I would set my son up with some snacks and let him go on youtube to watch kids who are more annoying than him on his worst day open toys. Why? Why watch this stupid shit? In my world there are not now, nor will there ever be, something called a Youtube star. They are nobody. Just like everyone else!

[TR]

A friend’s daughter (6) told me she flosses and I started going on and on about how good it is for you and I do it every night, until someone put me out of my misery, lol.

[Champagne Supernova]

Awww, I love festivals. I just like being outdoors though.

I never got dabbing and Youtubers. OMG, WTF is a flossy?

[Crystal]

I'm showing my own old. What is flossy?

[calamity]

Flossing or 'the flossy' as my kids call it
Not my kid

[Crystal]

Jun 13, 2018 14:00:41 GMT -5 TR said:

A friend’s daughter (6) told me she flosses and I started going on and on about how good it is for you and I do it every night, until someone put me out of my misery, lol.

[Crystal]

Looks like they're drying with a towel? Can we get dabbing back?

[Champagne Supernova]

Jun 13, 2018 14:02:14 GMT -5 calamity said:

Flossing or 'the flossy' as my kids call it
Not my kid

Oh, this!

Ugh, it's everywhere.

[illgetthere]

Jun 13, 2018 14:01:17 GMT -5 Crystal said:

I'm showing my own old. What is flossy?

The "backpack kid dance" aka the floss

youtu.be/HPJM6ww5hNU

[wildrice]

I have never been to a festival. I did go to two Dave Matthews Band concerts over a weekend, two different times in my college days. It was kind of like a festival, I guess, because everyone camped all weekend and then tailgated for hours before the concert. Those were some of my very best memories of my early 20s. I imagine festivals to be a similar experience. I'd come home filthy from not showering all weekend and hung over as hell, but it was so much fun.

That being said, at 36 I do not wish to repeat that experience. I still love concerts, but I want to sit in a seat and go home to a bed afterward.

I don't get Youtube for a lot of things really. I don't really understand the need to watch a video of every freaking thing, anyway. I haaate when a news story is a video. 99% of the time when I'm looking at the internet, I am around other people who I assume don't want to hear my video playing (or I'm at work and really don't want to call attention to the fact that I'm not doing work at that moment!).

I don't even know what dabbing is.

[followyourarrow]

Jun 13, 2018 14:02:14 GMT -5 calamity said:

Flossing or 'the flossy' as my kids call it
Not my kid

Oh!  This explains a lot.  Last week I had two kids I coach doing this.  I told them I didn't know what they were up to but to knock it off.  They looked at me like I was crazy.

[jezebel]

Yes, that’s the arm swinging crap I was talking about! I didn’t know what it was called.

L watches kids on YouTube play games. I’m like “why don’t you just... play the game?”

[Aloe Vera]

I know what all of these are but I can tell I am starting to show my age in other areas like Instagram. I rarely use it and when I see what some people are doing, I wonder how they did it. The only good thing going for me right now are my Google skills. It helps me keep up with all of this!

[cleo29]

I feel like the dance moves the came out when I was a kid were harder to do. This dance does not require great coordination or rhythm even.

[thatgirl2478]

I'm so glad my kids are too young to do any of this nonsense. And I'm 'old' too... I almost told a college kid who was wearing pants that were more hole than pant that she needed some clothes because it was sleeting outside... almost, then I decided to keep my thoughts to myself.

[jezebel]

[mrsbro]

Jun 13, 2018 14:00:41 GMT -5 TR said:

A friend’s daughter (6) told me she flosses and I started going on and on about how good it is for you and I do it every night, until someone put me out of my misery, lol.

[momin2013]

To show my own old, I have heard of neither dabbing nor flossing.

My only problem with the whole YouTube channel thing, however, is that I didn't think of it first. If I'd known that I could film myself holding up and naming every one of DS' Thomas trains and become a millionaire, I would have done it and never looked back. The other day, my DH told me he wanted to attempt to dig up and repair our sprinkler system tubing himself, and I told him, sure go ahead, just let me get my camera first, because I'm gonna film and post that shit. He never did it, though, so now I'm back to thinking of other ideas...

[jezebel]

Jun 13, 2018 14:11:39 GMT -5 Aloe Vera said:

I know what all of these are but I can tell I am starting to show my age in other areas like Instagram. I rarely use it and when I see what some people are doing, I wonder how they did it. The only good thing going for me right now are my Google skills. It helps me keep up with all of this!

Ugh, Instagram.  So stupid.  The comments are the worst- clearly people just commenting to have their name out there.  Someone posts a pic and there are 200 responses saying "Great picture!"  Like, literally the EXACT SAME WORDS, over and over and over. 

And fucking Instagram will show me pictures that are like 10 days old right at the top and I'm the idiot liking it.  

[DarcyLongfellow]

My cousin (who is 10 years younger than I am) got married this past weekend. Watching the generational gaps with the music was really interesting. Some songs, everyone knew. Some songs, the parents didn't know (my mom would say things like, was this song popular when you were in college??). Then, there were several songs that my cousin and all her friends were singing along to and knew every single word, and DH and I hadn't ever heard the song before. We're not *that* much older, but we felt like it!!

Also, to get to the wedding we drove past the area where Bonnaroo was happening. Spending all weekend camping out in 95 degree weather sounds like a little slice of hell to me.

[iamgrace]

Just today I tried to use Snapchat again. And it just....I just....I don’t get it. I’m too old for it.

[wambam]

Jun 13, 2018 14:24:17 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

Just today I tried to use Snapchat again. And it just....I just....I don’t get it. I’m too old for it.

I tried for like...two weeks. Because my BFF was really into it (and she's 6 years older than me!). I did not understand and gave up. 

[letsgetweird]

I don't get what's to get about snapchat

You take pics. You send them to people. You add to your story.

It's simple.

[shortstax]

I keep hearing about Fortnight, and I don't even care enough to google it. That means I'm officially an old, right?

[game blouses]

I’m so crotchety that I can’t go to regular concerts anymore. It pisses me off when people film parts of the show (or the entire show!!) on their phone, ruining the experience not only for themselves because they’re staring at a live show through a rectangle, but for anyone standing behind them who is trying to watch without a bright phone in their damn face.

And wtf are they even filming in the first place? Who the fuck cares about 30 seconds of a crappy quality video posted on social media? Ugh the whole thing makes me so freaking irritated. /old rant