Try to remember that people are more interesting than your phone
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Try to remember that some people are more interesting than your phone
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superkret@feddit.orgreplied to mickey7@lemmy.world last edited by
phone bad!
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themeatbridgereplied to ricdeh@lemmy.world last edited by
I dunno, there are a lot of tv shows and movies from the pre-internet era that depict parents lost in their newspapers and totally oblivious to what their kids are doing.
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Roflmasterbigpimpreplied to mickey7@lemmy.world last edited by
alles klar, Explodierer.
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rumba@lemmy.zipreplied to spacenoodle@lemmy.world last edited by
They did, but they were definitely more boring than most people. You'd have to be married to someone for a few years before the paper was a reasonable alternative.
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apfelwoischoppen@lemmy.worldreplied to themeatbridge last edited by
Having grown up in this era, I can say with 100% certainty that this was the case.
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dragonsinaroom@lemmy.worldreplied to superkret@feddit.org last edited by
phone bad!
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my_anus_is_bleeding@lemm.eereplied to themeatbridge last edited by
This is making me feel so old. It reads like you're using historical documents to learn what people did before phones
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️replied to mickey7@lemmy.world last edited by
There are more people available on the phone. We're people. Unless the entire Internet has been replaced with generative AI bots and I'm the last human left...
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FQQDreplied to my_anus_is_bleeding@lemm.ee last edited by
It is, and you are old. Sorry to break it to you.
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Darn kids and their mobile telephones!
That aside, uh, people are still people on the other end of the phone. They aren't like, unloaded when you get too far away from them.
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moshtradamus666@lemmy.worldreplied to mickey7@lemmy.world last edited by
Ok, boomer
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paradachshund@lemmy.todayreplied to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ last edited by
Hey, we bots are people, too!
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lauchs@lemmy.worldreplied to mickey7@lemmy.world last edited by
This seems to have hit too close to home.
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themeatbridgereplied to my_anus_is_bleeding@lemm.ee last edited by
I'm mid-forties, so I remember it well, except my recollection isn't really proof that it happened, and my parents weren't neglectful. In fact, all my memories of my parents were that they would stop what they were doing to talk to us. So I remember it being a common complaint, but it wasn't my experience.
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spacenoodle@lemmy.worldreplied to rumba@lemmy.zip last edited by
You severely underestimate how boring most people are.
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rumba@lemmy.zipreplied to spacenoodle@lemmy.world last edited by
I survived the pre-device world and socialized with people. Newspapers were shitty twitter, split into paragraphs on separate pages, without engagement and comments, magazines were expensive versions of the same but with pretty color pictures.
Pre-internet, people had 'areas of interest' so you could maybe learn about something they were passionate about (assuming they weren't wrong). Marriage was the real killer because all you ever got from your spouse what whatever they learned recently (gossip/news)
Now, people are sharing what they read on social media and some learn things all the time.
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spacenoodle@lemmy.worldreplied to rumba@lemmy.zip last edited by
Most people don't learn.
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meep_launcher@lemm.eereplied to mickey7@lemmy.world last edited by
Look don't judge them, anything goes in the airport cafe.