[plastiquebeech]

People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?

For the under-30 crowd, everything in their post-puberty lives has been carefully recorded in a semi-public ledger, and they know it.

We should expect people to declare their independence as they enter young adulthood, and it's hard to do that without any space to safely screw up. The Facebook generation was aggressively conditioned to conform with their peers through an industrialized record-share-shame pipeline, so it's good to see gen Z pushing in the opposite direction.

[trynewideas]

> People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?

Both my parents were cops in a small rural town, and my father was physically abusive. Damn straight I was squeaky clean.

With modern technology, now every phone is both a cop and an abuse vector. Who needs dads when you've got social media?

[aidenn0]

I had a scrupulously clean adolescence. I'm not entirely sure why to this day, other than the fact I was completely certain my parents would catch me and ... ground me I guess? They certainly didn't engage in any corporal punishment.

[rufus_foreman]

I'm not scoffing at the petty vandalism, I thought it was humorous to link grafittiing the subway to Luddism.

I had a wonderfully filthy adolescence, and like the subject in the article my parents often didn't know where I was at night. Unlike the subject in the article, it didn't seem to bother them. When I abandoned the C64 to spray paint "Circle Jerks" on the walls, it wasn't a rejection of technology. Spray paint is awesome. If I wanted to create a can of spray paint, I wouldn't even know where to start.

If the Teen Luddites had opened for the Circle Jerks, I'm guessing that would have been one ferocious pit.