A rant: Chat-speak, trends and utterly rude children

[Adelle]

3.
I can't stand it when people disrespect their parents.
I've told friends off when they don't listen to their parents. Which gets me in trouble with them xDDD
I'll be like "..Hey, she's your mom, you should listen to her.." and either they'll go blank or try to fight me.. Which don't work cuz I have UBER LEET HACKZ! (.. Ya see chat speak, sorry. XD)
I'm not perfect, right. I have my moments where I'm sure I've been disrespectful, but I try to apologize when I realize it wasn't nice/respectful..
I don't know of to many story's of people being really disrespectfulll. YAAA I'm borriinggg x33 but I do know that some people I know have serious problems accepting someone Else's opinion.. which can become hurtful..


Since I'm home schooled I really don't have a clue as to how big the trends are around here or how rude the kids areeee..
BUT
I do know that sometimes when you say Hi as they walk by they'll look around at each other then go like "Was she talking to YOU?!"
X_x

One of my friends was VERY rude to her mom, and her other friend and I told her off. And then she started being rude to us, and I was so upset at that time, I was crying and then her mom was like freaking out that day. Worst Birthday party I ever went to.

I'm homeschooled too, but I know all the fashions and trends, I hate them. I like stuff that is modest and comfortable. I'll be polite to adults and go to shake their hands and their face is like: "Wow, she's shaking my hand!" It's kinda weird. I, personally am glad that I am homeschooled!

[Fiery Gatoh]

I'm not eighteen years old yet but I still post there, it's more of just a guideline I think. The adult board exists so that older CS members can chat about things more relevant to their age group, and personally I feel that I fit in better there than on the rest of the board.

So... Basically you can post on the adult board if you feel that you are mature enough to do so.

Really? Didn't know that.

[Cookie]

Encounter.
with.
a rude kid today =\

Kay so I wuz like *walks past them once* "Hi!"
They mutter something.
I go by again later and laff and say "Hi, Again!"
They yell at me "BRUSH YOUR HAIR!!"
..
LOL
LOL
SO RUDE ITS FUNNY
It was a windy dayyy.
I was runninggg.
what do you expect? perfection? your insane! LOL!

(Editz; And plus, I'll brush my hair 0-2 times per day. so yaaa >.> xDD)

[TaraRayne]

I know when I originally replied to this post I mentioned that children being rude had a lot to do with bad parenting. I now have a perfect example to share that happened this evening. My husband got off work at 5pm today and we had to walk to the grocery store to get some things. On the way home a child of about 12 or 13 was shouting stuff at us and leaning out the window. I was not in the mood to deal with obnoxious children so I said "Why don't you just grow up?". Her mother circled the car around and waited in a parking lot that we had to walk by and started shouting at me "How dare you talk to my child like that blah blah blah..She was just trying to get you to wave at her." OK first off I didn't know this kid so I am not obligated to wave at her, second she should not encourage her child to be so openly familiar with strangers it could get her hurt. I pulled out my cell phone and told the woman she could either drive off or I could call the police and report her for harassment as my husband and I kept walking towards home. She drove off shouting something about "I hope you do call them" *rolls eyes*. I just can't understand why a parent would encourage a child to do rude things and then get mad when someone isn't amused by it. If I had kids I would certainly not be encouraging them to shout out the window at strangers so they would wave at them.

[Orange_Sonic_21]

To read constantly about the misdeeds of people slightly younger then me and around my age is something that puts a feeling of unrest at the core of my mind. To see firsthand the destructive nature of the children who have not had to have a worry in the world because of how generous their parents are is something that saddens me. And in my confusion, I may even be tricking myself in feeling I am also not responsible for this, even if it is for a little bit. I have not been told I have been a part of the problem, but I cannot help but feel I am also contributing to this, being a part of the group that sees nothing but clear skies, where the fantasy and loss of reality is created by the safeguard of our own parents.
I mourn for the parents of children who take everything for granted because they cannot see any sort of perishing in the world they come from. To constantly walk in the halls of my school and see many people who talk, walk, and act without a care in the world and with disrespect towards all other people, even their own FRIENDS, disgusts me to no end. If any of this rudeness has been my fault, and this is just a shout from the back of my mind, I am eternally sorry to those I may have affected with my lack of intelligence on the world outside the false, protective one I have been daydreaming in.

[KITTENS4U]

I couldn't agree more. I am right around your age and I can't accept it either. The chatspeak, I think, is for the laziest of the lazy. If you are too lazy to type or write out a word, why don't you just stay quiet? And the utterly rude children are sucked into the greedy, fakey world around us. They see it all as a competition and think they are 'better' if they go out and dog their mothers to buy high-dollar wear. I find it pretty shallow and they are too shallow to create their own outfit out of less expensive wear instead of buying some high dollar logo. And the trends are almost the same. People want to 'find' themselves or fit in with a group so they throw themself into a trend for attention. I just say be yourself and go after whatever YOU think is YOU, rather than being sucked into something stupid and end up as a poser.

So anyway, Gatoh, I couldn't agree more.

[MysticMysteron]

I try not to stress out about these things too much, honestly. Language trends are very fluid and they evolve surprisingly quickly, so it's really not a surprise that the internet generation would learn to speak a bit differently than their parents. Most people grow out of using chat-speak in daily life, though. (At least, they do if they ever want to get a job somewhere other than a mall kiosk.)

I'll avoid the emo topic, as I think I'm a bit ancient to have a relevant opinion. ^_- I'm so old I remember when being emo meant that you were *happy*. (It was more akin to the indie thing - not sure when it wandered over into the goth universe. I think I liked it better when it meant dressing in quirky second-hand clothes and listening to the Get Up Kids.)

Rude kids. Now that's a loaded topic if ever there was one. Frankly, I don't really think that the problem lies solely with children. There's just a lot of rude people, period. Of all ages. I could go into a very big essay about all the reasons why I think that is, but I don't want to put anyone to sleep. On the other hand, I think that spoiled children have always been rude, right back to the dawn of civilization. It's possible that there are more spoiled children today than there were 50 years ago. I can't say, because I wasn't around then. I do, however, know quite a few kids today that are anything but rude. The majority, in fact. But just like any group of people, the obnoxious ones tend to ruin it for everybody else. They're the ones that stick out. (And yes, there are some *very* obnoxious kids around.) Parents do play a big role in that... but a lot of it has to do with the media as well. I study this stuff in school, and had to do a project once on how the media industry manipulates kids in order to turn huge profits. It's not pretty. Actually, it's pretty depressing. They shove rampant commercialism down their unsuspecting throats and then we sit there and wonder how they all turned out to be so materialistic. Yes, parents do need to be more involved with their kids, but I think in general that we as a society need to be more aware of what kind of cultural ideology we're spreading about and supporting.

Then again, I also think that sometimes people are just rude by default and there's not much you can do but ignore them. ^_- (Besides, I can't really bring myself to pick on kids - even rude ones. Doesn't feel like a fair fight.)

[Telstel]

lol i love to rant but today is one of those rare happy days for me lol

[Toastberg]

Ugh, chatspeak. That really irritates me sometimes. Especially when people say it as in TALKING. My siser went around saying "Plz" instead of please until I could knock some sense into her =.=

As for the emos, I always thought they were depressed and sad and... emo. Not following fashion trends. I know someone who I'd actually classify as emo/weirdo and they've got nothing to do with the stuff.

[Fiery Gatoh]

As for the emos, I always thought they were depressed and sad and... emo. Not following fashion trends. I know someone who I'd actually classify as emo/weirdo and they've got nothing to do with the stuff.

Maybe it is just where I live then, but being emo is pretty much a statement to the world that says 'Look at me, I'm cool!'