Are young people more gullible?

SafeSurfer

And by young I'm not talking about kids! At one time I thought yes, definitely. But now I think access to information via the internet encourages people to be more inclined to draw their own conclusions rather than jump to others.

The Backwards Man

Here is definitive proof that people are more gullible nowadays.

Czarcasm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

And by young I'm not talking about kids! At one time I thought yes, definitely. But now I think access to information via the internet encourages people to be more inclined to draw their own conclusions rather than jump to others.

Do you REALLY believe that?

Oh dear.

El Guapo!

Czarcasm wrote: »

Do you REALLY believe that?

Oh dear.

You fell for it, you gullible bastard!
:pac:

gurramok

Yes young people are gullible when they are reared on a diet of Irish media who each have a vested interest at hand in everything of Irish life. The interweb is a valuable resource in learning the truth which bypasses the media which itself is controlled by a very small number of people.

squod

SafeSurfer wrote: »

And by young I'm not talking about kids! At one time I thought yes, definitely. But now I think access to information via the internet encourages people to be more inclined to draw their own conclusions rather than jump to others.

Bejaysus. Common sense is dead. That what you mean?

Czarcasm

El Guapo! wrote: »

You fell for it, you gullible bastard!
:pac:

I hate these fcuking inception threads, why can't we just go back to easy shít like a rick astley rickroll!

Chucken

gurramok wrote: »

Yes young people are gullible when they are reared on a diet of Irish media who each have a vested interest at hand in everything of Irish life. The interweb is a valuable resource in learning the truth which bypasses the media which itself is controlled by a very small number of people.

But if they question the medias reporting of an event, theres a call for tin foil hats!

SafeSurfer

squod wrote: »

Bejaysus. Common sense is dead. That what you mean?

I think its true to say that the generation raised in the 1950s in Ireland were more gullible. But then again maybe there were all just being fed the same BS rather than BS from many different sources.

solas111

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

― Aristotle

RustyNut

No, old people are more cynical.

orestes

Czarcasm wrote: »

I hate these fcuking inception threads, why can't we just go back to easy shít like a rick astley rickroll!

So that makes this a meme within a meme within a thread within a meme within a thread within a meme within a thread?

Senna

SafeSurfer wrote: »

I think its true to say that the generation raised in the 1950s in Ireland were more gullible. But then again maybe there were all just being fed the same BS rather than BS from many different sources.

Bollox, they're all sitting in their mortgage free homes and most of them probably never had much debt other than the mortgage.
I'd say the current generation (myself included) are the most gullible (read: Stupid) after the events of the last 10 years.

belcampprisoner

fianna fail had every one fooled not just the kids

falan

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Here is definitive proof that people are more gullible nowadays.

Link doesn't work:(...........:pac::pac:

Chucken

Senna wrote: »

Bollox, they're all sitting in their mortgage free homes and most of them probably never had much debt other than the mortgage.
I'd say the current generation (myself included) are the most gullible (read: Stupid) after the events of the last 10 years.

Is that a bad thing?

The payment of a huge debt (mortgage) is all relative, isn't it?

RustyNut

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Here is definitive proof that people are more gullible nowadays.

falan wrote: »

Link doesn't work:(...........:pac::pac:

Fixed

Latchy

Young people know what makes the world go around with regards to politics ,religion ,media, music ,entertainment ,sex , science etc and there's a whole market out there ready to exploit them except they are now more informed and won't suffer fools as gladly as other generations have .

SafeSurfer

Senna wrote: »

Bollox, they're all sitting in their mortgage free homes and most of them probably never had much debt other than the mortgage.
I'd say the current generation (myself included) are the most gullible (read: Stupid) after the events of the last 10 years.

I was thinking more of society as a whole rather than just narrowly the middle class.

Senna

Chucken wrote: »

Is that a bad thing?

No its a great thing, I wish I had mine paid off like most people in their 60's/70's.

Chucken wrote: »

The payment of a huge debt (mortgage) is all relative, isn't it?

Relative to what??

Senna

SafeSurfer wrote: »

I was thinking more of society as a whole rather than just narrowly the middle class.

So only middle class had debt?? or only middle class fell for the Celtic Tiger??

Chucken

Senna wrote: »

No its a great thing, I wish I had mine paid off like most people in their 60's/70's.



Relative to what??

To relatives :pac:

Only messing. All relative in the sense that any mortgage in any time/year is going to eat into your earnings. People in their 60s/70s also struggled.

SafeSurfer

Senna wrote: »

So only middle class had debt?? or only middle class fell for the Celtic Tiger??

I just regard mortgages as very middle class.

Mal-Adjusted

Senna wrote: »

Bollox, they're all sitting in their mortgage free homes

so what? People with mortgages today won't have them in 50 years time either. Being gullible is really case by case. It's not really defined by age bracket

Senna

Chucken wrote: »

To relatives :pac:

Only messing. All relative in the sense that any mortgage in any time/year is going to eat into your earnings. People in their 60s/70s also struggled.

I'm sure it was a struggle, but my parents mortgage was £1 per week and my dads wages was £4 per week (25% net wage). It was a 25yr max mortgage and 2.5 times earnings on single income, this was relatively normal to all mortgages even with interest rates of 15%.

Even pre-recession wages on mortgages were 30-40% net wage, 30+yr terms, two incomes and record low interest rates.

It's not actually relative at all, yes people who took out mortgages in the 60/70's did struggle, but nothing like current debt levels.

Senna

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

so what? People with mortgages today won't have them in 50 years time either. Being gullible is really case by case. It's not really defined by age bracket

Did the Celtic tiger only effect some people, or did the whole country just go nuts and believe we were all rich?? Sounds about as gullible as you can get. Yes its a generalisation, but it fitting here.

Chucken

Senna wrote: »

I'm sure it was a struggle, but my parents mortgage was £1 per week and my dads wages was £4 per week (25% net wage). It was a 25yr max mortgage and 2.5 times earnings on single income, this was relatively normal to all mortgages even with interest rates of 15%.

Even pre-recession wages on mortgages were 30-40% net wage, 30+yr terms, two incomes and record low interest rates.

It's not actually relative at all, yes people who took out mortgages in the 60/70's did struggle, but nothing like current debt levels.

I got my mortgage in 1983 (recession time again folks)
My income was 78 punts a week. My then husbands income was similar.
The mortgage was 40 punts a week. We had 2 babies by 1985.

So when I say it was all relative to now...it was!

The only difference was, we didn't ever top up the mortgage to buy a car etc and things we didn't need. And thank the gods, 100% mortgages were unheard of.

Mal-Adjusted

Senna wrote: »

Did the Celtic tiger only effect some people, or did the whole country just go nuts and believe we were all rich?? Sounds about as gullible as you can get. Yes its a generalisation, but it fitting here.

The Celtic Tiger and subsequent recession affected everyone in one form or another, and of course the whole country didn't go nuts. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here. Recession is a sign of gullibility?

hfallada

I think the older generation are far more gullible believing irish media such as RTE and irish independent are reliable news sources. Young people look up things on the internet rather believing what was on RTE.