Looking back on the way people my age are raised, I feel like people should be scolding us. Many people say "don't hate our generation, look who raised us," but honestly I feel as if people in my generation took it upon themselves to raise themselves. Not saying parents aren't parents, it's just that times have changed. When my mom talks about how she was raised I imagine an organized family and everyone had a schedule and a way to live, and if you didn't live how your parents wanted you to, you had harsh consequences and knew better than to disobey your parents. Now, I feel like people my age say and do whatever they want, without thinking, myself included. My mom always taught me, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," and she also taught me conversational manners; Never talk about money, politics, or religion. I feel like in all parts of society those "rules" I was raised by are broken and people are bound to say something that is not necessary. It seems no one knows how to be polite, how to hold a proper conversation, or how to think properly in social situations.
Maybe we act the way we do because, yes, the era has changed. We aren't raised the same way our parents were, and things in society are much different. Parents won't kick you out of the house for being disrespectful like they would when our parents were growing up. We don't communicate in all the same ways. I hate to say it, but for people my age, the most popular form of communication is via technology. Whether it be facebook, twitter, email, text message, phone conversations, etc., we don't know how to have a decent conversation in person. The world is changing too fast for people to keep up and adjust to it, and we are blurring the standards of right and wrong ways of communication. I feel like none of the conversations I hear lately are about relevant issues in society, or even important things happening, they are gossip, arguments, and dumb things; Not only are they poor conversations, people don't know when the right time to stop gossiping, arguing, or talking about dumb things is. It seems like our generation is saying too much, rather than not enough, but about all the wrong topics.
