Try to remember that people are more interesting than your phone

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phone bad!

themeatbridge

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

alles klar, Explodierer.

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

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phone bad!

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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 It reads like you're using historical documents to learn what people did before phones

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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

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

SavvyWolf

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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Ok, boomer

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Hey, we bots are people, too!

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This seems to have hit too close to home.

themeatbridge

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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You severely underestimate how boring most people are.

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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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Most people don't learn.

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Look don't judge them, anything goes in the airport cafe.

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nifty

They’re probably liking each others insta where they posted about their coffee date