Have you ever noticed how people on the internet love to get outraged at things?! Thanks to a website called Nextdoor, people can now take that rage out on their neighbors while hiding behind a computer. This latest viral post, about new parents, showcases this perfectly!
This story perfectly illustrates the terrible communication between millennials and older generations.
It all began when a Twitter user named JJ joined Nextdoor for the first time and discovered something that shocked him.
He described it as “the most ridiculous thing ever.”
So what was it?
A new father posted on the network asking for support from his community. How crazy!? (Yes, that’s sarcasm.)
But what got JJ so infuriated is that the new parents asked their neighbors for a “meal train.”
The father said that as they’re not getting much sleep and his wife is recovering from childbirth, it would be helpful if some neighbors could provide meals for them.
JJ read this and said, “there is no way these people are asking strangers to make them food bc they have 1 baby.”
Let’s get some context on this. The new parents weren’t demanding any food from their community, they were just requesting it.
Also, JJ knows nothing of how difficult the birth was. Perhaps the new mother is going through a hard recovery process?
JJ didn’t consider this and instead proceeded to spout anger at the new parents.
To be fair, JJ does have a point. The new father then provides over 30 specific meals for the neighbors to make them. That is a little overbearing.
But they are just suggestions. The new parents would probably accept anything!
And yet JJ writes tweet after tweet about how entitled the new parents must be.
And yes, JJ is right. The new parents are asking a lot. But they aren’t demanding anything. They’re merely asking.
So is JJ going to respectfully inform the new parents that he thinks that they’re being overbearing and should accept whatever people can spare?
No. He threatens to vandalize their home by saying “If I don’t egg their house, I deserve an award.”
So the millennial parents that are exhausted and asking for food are terrible neighbors, but the guy who threatens to egg their house is a pillar of society!?
The internet has had a range of responses to JJ’s tweets. Some people think that he’s overreacting.
But the majority of replies praise JJ for shaming the new father.
Is it any wonder why studies say that social media causes people to be stressed, depressed, anxious and many other bad things? It’s because people make posts asking for assistance, and in response, people threaten to egg their home and “shake the living shit” out of them!
Again, that isn’t to say that the original Nextdoor post from the new father doesn’t come across as entitled. It does. But it didn’t deserve some guy to rant about it online, shaming the posters and threatening to egg their home!
Surely these kinds of requests are nothing new. Ok, in the past, new parents probably weren’t requesting quinoa dishes, but they probably were asking for whatever the fad food of the day was.
The only difference is that in the past, there was never the means for it to get blown out of proportion. No social media meant that there was no ability for an entitled request to go viral.
Could you imagine the JJs of yesteryear calling up the local newspaper to complain about a new parent’s meal train? Even in a town where nothing was going on, it wouldn’t be featured.
And yet today, the new parents are shamed across the internet.
Still, there is some good news. The first response to the new father’s post was someone offering to help. The kind person is now at risk of having his house also egged by JJ, but that’s just the world we live in.
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