Teens who refuse to use social media
(Disclaimer: I am Gen Z)<p>Honestly, all of these &quot;I refuse to use social media!&quot; type articles just remind me of people who spam &quot;all the music of this generation sucks; I&#x27;m 14 and I was born in the wrong generation&quot; on YouTube videos.<p>Going against the mainstream often is a package deal that comes bundled with a superiority complex against people who choose to engage in the activity that you choose not to engage in.<p>I saw a comment in this very HN thread that goes so far as to say that youth who use social media display &quot;intellectual vulnerability,&quot; and that _not_ using social media is an asset warranting immediate hire.<p>Social media exists as a way to facilitate communication online over a long-distance, i.e. old friends who now live in different places. Problems that we think are &quot;unique&quot; to social media, like the loudest, wrongest voices getting the most attention, exist in human society outside of social media as well. It&#x27;s not an exclusive phenomenon.<p>Of course, not everybody has to use social media.<p>But you&#x27;re not a special snowflake just because you don&#x27;t have an app installed on your phone...