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I’m So Glad That Social Media Didn’t Catch My Cringiest Teenage Moments

Aren’t you?

Samantha Kemp-Jackson
6 min readFeb 10, 2025

Generation X had the good fortune of having no digital tools that documented their bad decisions

Do you remember being a teenager? You know — that time when you thought that your parents were soooo stupid that they knew absolutely nothing about life? Or how about the fact that in your mind, they had absolutely no clue about what was important, of value or just plain interesting?

Yes parents, in a teenager’s eyes, really needed to back off, because they didn’t know what on earth they were talking about.

We knew. We just did.

We were, after all, between the ages of 13 and 18 and the world was our oyster. We were the coolest generation, wore the coolest clothes, listened to the coolest music and were just, well cool. End of story.

Or so we thought.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

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Samantha Kemp-Jackson
Samantha Kemp-Jackson

Written by Samantha Kemp-Jackson

Writer, Media Commentator and overall opinionated individual. I live in the past A. Lot. Follow me on Substack: LivingInThePast.Substack.Com

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