What's with kids these days, huh? Don't they understand that the world is a scary place. People I know just meet each other and trust each other for no reason. How many people have I known to just go home, or worse, camping with a complete stranger? Sure, nothing bad has happened to any of them... yet.
But what is the world coming to when people just meet over the internet on places like couchsurfing.com and craigslist and they just trust one another. How naive can you be to just let some stranger come and stay at your house? Or to go and stay at the house of someone you have only met online? I mean, sure there are ratings, blogs from people who know them and have stayed with them before, and sure the worst thing to happen so far off of couchsurfing was a money scheme, that was mostly due to stupidity on the part of the host who got took, but still.
Kids these days just put it all out there. Pictures, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, what town they live in, where they work...
With all that goes on in the world, wars and terrorism and kidnappings and killings, with all of that, how can these kids be so foolish.
What kind of world are we living in where trust and kindness are freely given? What kind of world is this that kids value life experiences and meeting new people over the slight chance that one of these days, they might meet a crazy person and never be found?
People buy and sell stuff from strangers thousands of miles away. People form relationships with people they have never met, and then agree to actually meet them in person. People publish content that was once locked away in a diary on blogs for the world to see. Where did all the trust come from?
That's my generation.
Katie May
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