Try to remember that people are more interesting than your phone

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

Y'all forgot that newspapers and magazines used to exist, huh?

[gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world]

I'll talk to them, sure. Right after I upload a preachy meme.

[lipoly@lemmynsfw.com]

There’s people in my phone, so…

[ricdeh@lemmy.world]

You know there's a difference. Nowadays, many people are glued to their phones because of addictive apps like TikTok and Instagram. I can't imagine that newspapers had the same effect.

[iamericandre@lemmy.world]

Ok boomer

[neilbru@lemmy.world]

Try to remember that some people are more interesting than your phone

[superkret@feddit.org]

phone bad!

[themeatbridge@lemmy.world]

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.

[roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world]

alles klar, Explodierer.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

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.

[apfelwoischoppen@lemmy.world]

Having grown up in this era, I can say with 100% certainty that this was the case.

[dragonsinaroom@lemmy.world]

phone bad!

[my_anus_is_bleeding@lemm.ee]

This is making me feel so old. It reads like you're using historical documents to learn what people did before phones

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

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...

[fqqd@lemmy.ohaa.xyz]

It is, and you are old. Sorry to break it to you.

[savvywolf@pawb.social]

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.

[moshtradamus666@lemmy.world]

Ok, boomer

[paradachshund@lemmy.today]

Hey, we bots are people, too!

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

This seems to have hit too close to home.

[themeatbridge@lemmy.world]

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.