The loss of individuality in younger people and the need to grow up faster. - Morning Musings!

I typed this all out once but my school internet was being SHIT so it didn't post and I have to type this all out from memory. Fun. Anywho! 

So, yesterday on instagram, I wrote about identity and came to the conclusion that there's no definite answer on what "you" really am and that what makes ME "myself" is my lack of self, and honestly this topic ties into yesterday's topic. 

So, again; who are you? Got an answer? Okay.

So, have you guys also noticed that everyone is becoming the same. I come to school daily and everyone is just copy-pastes of each other except for the few stragglers who are ostracized and put into yet ANOTHER box. But these stragglers fit into another genre of copy-paste as is and the true stragglers are ostracized yet again. Even in younger kids, I noticed that some of my little sister's classmates are pretty rude to anyone who "isn't normal", as well as a lot of kids being "chronically online" and repeating things on the internet that they shouldn't have seen in the first place. And, as much as I hate to admit it, we really can blame a lot of this on the internet. Kids are getting access to it at younger and younger ages, and while this can be good in certain ways, a lot of kids end up stuck in what we call "Echochambers"

Now, if you don't know what an echochamber is, it's basically getting stuck in a community that echoes your own beliefs, and from what I've observed through middle school and my first couple weeks of highschool, people in my age range and hell, even younger are easily drawn into said echochambers. For a lot of kids at my school, they fall into these far end of the political spectrum echochambers (mostly far-right because I live in the middle of nowhere in NC), and honestly, I could talk about how far end political spheres are absolutely terrible things to get caught up in, but that's besides the point. So, a lot of kids get into these political based echochambers, they start bashing anyone outside of the chamber, the bashed end up either joining to avoid being bashed or they just end up being a quiet minority. And it repeats.... it's like the majority is zombies.

And even with younger kids, if it isn't politics, it's about being caught up with these trends. Like, the whole Sephora kid thing; my little sister begged my mom to go buy skincare and it honestly broke my heart to see her use these products that she DOESN'T NEED. Just because she saw these beauty youtubers and possibly her classmates all have these. It makes me sad that kids her age are acting grown just because trends are telling them to.

In conclusion; echochambers are causing kids to become zombielike and/or grow up to fast.