34 Of ‘The Kids Today’ Criticisms That Are Actually Very Accurate, As Shared Online

I work at ulta and I also know that sephora has this issue too. Kids (specifically preteen girls) today are actively using retinol. Using retinol at such a young age (the only exception is prescription-use) will damage their skin barriers.

They aren't as sociable they used to be. When I was a kid, going to the neighbors house to wrestle in the backyard was common, now kids are much happier just sitting at home playing a game.

10 year old girls asking Santa for expensive skincare with active ingredients which should not be used by anyone under 25 or so, and literal kids flocking to Sephora and destroying samples.

*some* kids today have a very limited attention span and can barely read despite being high school graduates. One of my kids’ friends is like this. A sweet person but basically consumes a media diet of YouTube shorts. She doesn’t read anything ever. When she talks she sounds like she’s speaking Newspeak from 1984. Instead of saying “this is delicious”. She might say “this is so so good.”.

One of rhe odd things about "the kids today" which I think will be important to look at in the future, is that kids today are consuming content made by Kids. That's never happened before. But a lot of the youtube channels tiktok accounts, etc. That they look at, are made by kids the same age as them.

I think Gen Z are very progressive when it comes to things like LGBTQ, disabilities and neurodiversity, but they have a big issue with ageism.

It feels like a pathological need to be young and a big fear about getting older.

The kids today need to stop putting Botox and fillers into their faces before they've even finished developing their frontal lobes.

Sidewalk and hallway etiquette. Walking 2-3 abreast as others come toward them. I'm not going to walk in the street so you can hear what Aiden is saying. Move over or be moved over.

The non-existence of media literacy. The amount of misinformation that is easily spreading on social media is scary. Especially when it comes to stuff like basic biology..

Edit: after gaining some new perspectives on this from the comments I’ve come to the conclusion that maybe this is more of a me problem since I’m so sceptic so I tend to double-triple check facts I see on the internet 🤔

A new meta-analysis with studies from mainly Western countries just showed, that kids overestimate their own abilities more than before.

I haven't read it yet, because I just saw it yesterday, but it proves the research by the American psychologist Jean Twenge showing that Americans are getting more narcissistic. It's just happening everywhere in the developed world, and the trend began way before social media. I believe wealth is the cause.

Basically that their parents failed them.

A lot of kids nowadays don't think they have to take responsibility for their actions. If anything, they think it's hilarious and post it to YouTube and TikTok as a "challenge" . For example, the enormous rash of Kia and Hyundai break-ins, thanks to kids finding out how easy it is to break in.

Knowing professional phone etiquette... Or how to talk on the phone period

The real problem is the insane way they make a heart with their fingers…

Speak in meme phrases instead of actually communicating.

Their small talk skills are next to nothing