+330 "Modern day society is so horrible." No, modern day society is awesome. We have cures for diseases that we didn't used to have, anybody engaging in a genocide is automatically deemed as evil, there is significantly more social mobility than any other previous time, and I can actually communicate with people in Australia right now, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

BUT THE GIRLS! THEY'RE HAVING SEX AT AGE 12! (like girls have for the past couple thousand years)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

INORITE AND THERE GETTIN PREGNANT AT EARLYER AGES LOOK AT THESE STATISTICS http://ctrlv.in/31510 (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/TeenPregnancy/AboutTeenPreg.htm)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Damn, and thats just comparing the 90's to now, I'd hate to see what it was like in the 50's.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'll tell you one thing: I know that teen pregnancy is the lowest it's been since 1940. People only think that teenagers today are bad because they rely on television, rather than actual face-to-face interaction with others, to form their worldview.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Everything but the genocide part just sounds like modern day science/technology, not society.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Social mobility.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's sociology, which is a branch of science.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sociology is the study of society.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

DAMNIT FINE. Well, half of those are technology-related, then.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Technology impacts society. The Internet is one of the driving forces of society. In fact, the United Nations recently declared Internet access as a human right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You can make a connection between any two things. But when people complain about society, they're typically not saying, "Man, I wish cellphones had never been invented!" Only old people and people with extreme paranoia hate technological advancements. Usually, they're complaining about how people take advantage of these advancements, not the advancements themselves.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Internet is definitely changing society. Many in-demand jobs didn't exist before 1950 because of the Internet.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Did you read that comment at all?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It refers to the difference between society and technology in the post, not how they're related in total.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, but you can't be telling me that technology, especially technology as mainstream as the Internet, has no effect on society.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's the lack of responsibility on how to use the technology, not the technology.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Agreed. We're pretty damn lucky. People just need to complain about shit.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's a lot better than it has been for sure, but still needs some work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Agreed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Even socially we're doing pretty well! (I'm speaking as an American) I find it pretty great that as a teen girl I don't have to quit school to get a job in a clothing factory, or never get an education, or be married off to someone who I don't know, or have almost no rights. Looking at it that way, society is actually doing pretty well.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

well in that sense it is better but we are destroying our own planet for our own selfish reasons and to me that is why modern day society IS indeed horrible people are not taking global warming seriously enough

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're right... modern society does have diseases that we didn't used to have.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'll bet your pissed about the third word in this comment, too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah you're right, we say people who commit atrocities are evil. What does that accomplish if we do nothing to help?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm from Australia! :) HIIIIIIIII xD

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would definitely post that xkcd comic about social decline if I wasn't on my iPod.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

society is worse, technology and politics (although flawed) is better.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How's society worse?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

drugs, rape, corruption, murder, suicides, depression, diseases (cancer/HIV), bieber, assaults, thievery, etc

by Anonymous 12 years ago

All those have been around since day one, except Bieber and maybe HIV. It's just that now, we're educated on drugs, reporting rape is easier, there are laws preventing corruption, we have pills for depression, we have suicide hotlines, and we have treatment for cancer.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Respect for those who deserve respect, general human contact, type of human contact.. the list goes on.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you dont get the point. society shouldnt need these things (except drug education and rape reporting [CBS cares]), the thing thats wrong is that people NEED suicide hotlines when they shouldnt be suicidal.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

modern society is no better than the previous society if not worse,People are still being exploited and have virtually no rights all over the world, the amount the US military spends in one day, is enough to wipe out world hunger... the world is no less dog eat dog than it was 50 years ago... sure, we found a few cures and have brought a little justice but the good modern society has done is masked by cases like Casey Anthony, the sweatshops, and racism.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

modern society is no better than the previous society if not worse,People are still being exploited and have virtually no rights all over the world, the amount the US military spends in one day, is enough to wipe out world hunger... the world is no less dog eat dog than it was 50 years ago... sure, we found a few cures and have brought a little justice but the good modern society has done is masked by cases like Casey Anthony, the sweatshops, and racism.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It seems like most of the people complaining about society are overweight females, due to the fact that our culture favors thinness and certain types of beauty. Like on sixbillionsecrets.com. "I'm 16353526363 pounds and today I looked at my mirror and smiled. I smiled at myself for an hour and was late to school because of it. FUCK YOU SOCIETY. Real women have curves." Or... "Today, my 4000000000 pound sister threw up all her food because she wanted to be skinny and pretty. I cried at the heap of mashed up twinkies, cupcakes, and animal lard in the toilet. She's only 13, and I think she's beautiful. Society's the ugly one."

by Anonymous 12 years ago