Always nice to know it's not just you

[spanambula]

One of my friends tweeted an "Oh, God, why is this me?!?" link to this article from EYE WEEKLY.

I found the whole thing like listening to a really good tarot card reader describe my life to me. Some things were more spot-on than others, but I definitely found this this amusing in light of recent events:
"Twentysomethings are also inundated with

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[literateshrew]

That last bit makes me wonder, though, what does "growing the fuck up" look like? Do we necessarily have to abandon our online lives to grow up? If so, why?

[literateshrew]

Don't get me wrong, I do the Facebook as self-flagellation thing too. I mean, 90% of my old high school classmates are online, and I find myself looking at their lives in relation to my own, too. Roughly 80% of them have kids and are buying houses (the most minute details of which they looooove to tell everyone about in status updates). The other 15% are successful in fields I admire (hello, Oxford librarian friend and ancient language scholar living in Italy!). As a married but childless 31 yo undergraduate, I seem to fail on all counts.

But at the same time, I'm proud of the life I've made and it's reflection online. I'm writing a novel, learning about literature, helping people write better, and generally living life on my own terms. So what?

Is THAT what "growing the fuck up" looks like? I certainly fucking hope so!

[spielorjh]

This looks like the same sort of analysis that gave us the "Generation X" term in the 90s.