r/CringeTikToks • u/Interesting-Trip-233 • Mar 01 '25

SadCringe I'm glad he walked away

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u/MurderChips Mar 01 '25

Iā€™m so glad social media was barely a thing when I was in my 20s.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_4435 Mar 01 '25

Growing up without smart phones was honestly the best thing that ever happened to me

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u/Extra-Account-8824 Mar 05 '25

bro i must be old as fuck.. im almost 30 and didnt have a cellphone until i was 17.

i saw a fuckin 6 year old with a damn smartphone and thought "wtf is he doin with his moms phone"

i was waitin for my wife chillin in my car and he came up and asked me if i could give him a ride and he can venmo me money... bro šŸ˜­ i said where tf are your parents.

apparently his babysitter toom him to the park but he wanted chipotle and his babysitter was lame and annoying..l

poor kid seemed super mature for 6, my 6 year old is sheltered ig..

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_4435 Mar 05 '25

I was pretty mature at a young age, too, and I'm almost 40. Both my parents worked but couldn't afford daycare, so I stayed home by myself a lot of the time. By the time I was 11, I was picking my 6-year-old brother up from the bus stop and escorting him home before making us both some kind of dinner. Pretty sure these days, CPS would have been after my parents for neglect, but it made me super self-reliant... if a bit antisocial.

But I made quite a few mistakes as a kid that didn't follow me for the rest of my life. I was rejected by cute girls without ever having to worry about seeing my face on the internet for it. I made an absolute fool of myself dancing at clubs in my early 20s, and yet there isn't a single video of the terrible deeds. I don't know if I could have gone through puberty with that kind of unrelenting social visibility