Poor Little Darlings!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/c384d54a-0116-437f-83e8-ddbca65b6c06
Suffering from executive millennial burnout! PMSL how did us old farts ever manage eh? No twitface, internet, mobile phones!

[ummmm]

It's the social pressure which is worrying. Filter on phones,your picture over social media without your consent and then people commenting on it. So much trolling going on as well. There's a blinking suicide site encouraging our kids to kill themselves!!

[sherrardk]

We’ve had letters home from primary school today about the suicide web thing, it’s been going on for months but there seems to be a lot of media about it today - it’s worrying what can seep into your kids’ worlds, no matter how vigilant you are.

[ummmm]

Really worrying, Sher, my son had a tormented year and heaven forbid he came across a site like that!

[Mamyalynne]

Yes that is vile, made me shudder reading about it.

[sherrardk]

Luckily, my kids are (probably too) cynical and are good at spotting crap - I can imagine that loads of kids would be scared witless by this sort of ***. All I had to worry about when I was 10 was getting in before it was dark.

[tonyav]

Is it that Momo thing, sherr ?

[sherrardk]

Yes, it is - some really strange, twisted people about.

[tonyav]

Yes, very sick people sherr.

[Arksided]

First time I'd heard of Momo yesterday afternoon whilst on FB... TV 'Supernatural' Chat group... someone had posted a link to it, I couldn't believe what I was reading... Sick!

[woofgang]

I think its the walk a mile thing...if you haven't lived someone's life you don't know how it feels.......its also not just the young. Some mothers for instance feel driven to post nothing but perfect parental life for instance. As an outside viewer (no kids, no social life, don't care) I do see the backlash coming but it takes a strong minded person not to be swept along on the FOMO tide.

[Arksided]

...swept along on the FOMO tide.

You've summed myself up perfectly ;-) As a wise Owl once 'said' I don't give two hoots.

[dave50]

People take their so called career too seriously. It's a means to an end that's all, it's a job to earn money to live. I have always looked at it that way and no I have never risen up the career ladder because I am not interested. I want a stress free life and be happy, thats it.

[New Judge]

Every generation has its own problems to deal with. My Mum was nine when WW2 began and, living in London, spent the next six years being bombed by the Germans. My Dad was thirteen and he spent three or four years being similarly bombed and then was conscripted into the Royal Navy where he spent a couple of years wondering whether he would wake up again the next time he went to sleep.

Today's little treasures have to worry whether they look their best in case somebody might take their photo and post it online. I know which I'd prefer.

[Mamyalynne]

Dave, there's something to be said for that approach too - not everyone wants to climb that ladder which at the start seems a good move but then becomes a climb you can't get off.

[steg]

///Today's little treasures have to worry whether they look their best in case somebody might take their photo and post it online. I know which I'd prefer.///

They are also the ones fighting our wars today

[New Judge]

"They are also the ones fighting our wars today"

Not at nine years old they are not. And when they are they do so on a voluntary basis.

[youngmafbog]

Burnout has happened to many generations before this lot.

Unfortunately it was not publicised so I have seen people top themselves or have severe breakdowns and then just shunted out the way (I know this from personal experience).

Sad, but it is Western life.

[steg]

I’m sure at least one of the victims of the Manchester bombing was under nine and a few under 16

[ToraToraTora]

hang on ,so in steg land people going to a concert are fighting wars? Right Oh!

[steg]

Not really no, but they are casualty’s of bombing