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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A false dichotomy created by pop culture to divide teenagers into cliques.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean I did plenty of both.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And have felt super cool and like a total loser doing both.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Imagine not cracking a beer while playing Vidya Games.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y'all zoomers were better than that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

hello, I'm a 2020 hs graduate, I'm probably in the zoomer category. from my experience, this does not exist outside of movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Man what was 2020 graduation like?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

fun /s

I mean, as a nerd with no interest in prom, it wasn't all bad. My hs has us still do graduation almost as normal (masks and spacing, ofc), with the only major difference being that it was split across multiple days so we could fit everyone on the front lawn.

The fact that they had to do the speeches six times was the only reason I was slightly glad to have missed out on being valedictorian/salutorian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

pretty boring tbh. most of it was the same, just with masks on, and classes online. thankfully, mu part of australia was mostly unaffected by covid, so final WACE exams were basically the same. the big send off was already done before hand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There will always be popular extroverts and unpopular introverts.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can we stop this "Introvert" BS? An "introvert" is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves. Nothing more. This "the extroverts are the sports guys and the introverts are the intellectuals" is completely made up and people will not like you more or less depending on wether you wear your heart on your tongue or not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

An "introvert" is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves.

That's not correct at all, and it's funny because you're so confident about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Extraversion tends to be manifested in outgoing, talkative, energetic behavior, whereas introversion is manifested in more reflective and reserved behavior.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not how they're defined, just typical manifestations of the underlying personalities.

Introverts emotionally recharge from alone time, extroverts emotionally recharge from time with others.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

This is exactly the kind of made up division I'm talking about. There is no such thing as "someone who 'emotionally recharges X or Y way'".

First of all: Why exactly would Wikipedia - edited by thousands - be wrong if the way you put is "what they are defined as"? Wouldn't people have written Wikipedia that way then?

Next, there is no such thing as "emotionally recharge". Our "emotions" aren't a battery. Also, there is "recharging process" or anything. Generally speaking: Activities that make us happy in that very moment "recharge" our batteries. Parents of young children will confirm that this not neccessarily a task that gives you respite, but can be the most exhausting thing ever, still you'll come out of it with more energy than before.

And we all - everyone! Yes, you too! - have varying ways of doing that. Sometimes, we'll want to be around others and it'll do us good, sometimes we want to be alone and it'll do us good. While all people will have tendencies towards one way or another, no one has a defined "recharging mode". No one.

And lastly: The main issue with this division into "introverts" and "extroverts" is not that it's impossible to divide people by that line. You can, as you can with many, many other lines one could draw. The issue is that people offhandedly attribute all kinds of stuff to this division. All of a sudden, extroverts are "loud" and "confident" and "energetic" and "sports guys". Even IF we applied your definition... how would the way someone wants to take a break in lead to them being even one of those things? It's just not logical.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Guess what kind of activities the average outgoing and energetic teenager will pick to indulge in compared to the more reflective and reserved teenager. Sports.

You just proved your own statement wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

How would a tendency to keep thoughts on the inside instead of the outside make you more prone to being a sports guy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I didn't say anything else in this thread

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Actually not. You can be a massive nerd these days and still go get fucked up and party.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was the Internet/Gamer kid raised by television who got drunk at 17 and fell off a roof. Why was I drunk on a roof? Fuckin' 2001.

Not sure which category I fall under.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I lived in terraced housing and I used to walk across the steep rooftop of my house down to the neighbors. At the time I thought I was being cool, like my hero, Daredevil. Looking back on it now, it was ridiculously dangerous.

I lament the loss of quite a few of my parallel selves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Gamers truly are the most oppressed ✊😪

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Bruh this meme is so stale could clobber someone to death with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm part of the two, am I special? 🙊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really don't care about party-goers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about internet party goers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

And how about lan-party goers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If you’re not born rich, you’re a loser. There.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh no, I was in the first group (for 3/4 of high school) and I definitely thought that I was a loser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Spoiler alert...

They both suck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Alcohol gives you cancer, gaming does not.