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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

In any recent times definitely - I mean, they're not up chimneys or in factories (working class Victoria children had a pretty rough time) - but things like camera phones, social media, and just frankly the ability to ALWAYS be in contact with each other... Causes kids these days an unfathomable level of stress and anxiety. The Teens is a tough time to figure out socially and always was, but at least even in my day (15-20 years ago) you could more or less go home and clock out, take a break from it all. These days there's a social expectation of being in constant contact on snapchat/WhatsApp/etc...

Plus they have a constant awareness that they may be (are likely to be) being recorded at any time. The self-restrictions on freedom are huge. I shudder in horror at the thought of my teen antics being available to download as videos .

Yeah absolutely agree with everything you said there. It's much different issues to other generation or eras but very bad mentally I think.

Just in regards to your last paragraph, yep, I had diaries I kept as a teen and they were so embarrassing to read back I eventually burned them, imagine if it was now, some of that stuff could be forever on line :/