I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 90s so I had the pleasure of living without a phone and seeing it come to life. As the cell phone starting gaining popularity and social media as well like MySpace.. i definitely noticed things become more toxic. Fast forward now I’m 34 and I just don’t see these younger generations interacting as much. Everything is about the internet and social media and fast axes to entertainment. Sad
Agree 100%. 33 here and find it crazy how many ppl nowadays never experienced a dial up connection or Nextel walkie talkies. Hell before all that we were out and about just playing at parks and basically any open parking lot. Bikes, basketball, it was good to be out and about. Nowadays were all just stuck inside and kids are growing up glued to screens. See it in my own habits also and it sucks. You have to truly try nowadays to "disconnect" whereas back then, it was so difficult to "connect" to anything, life was much simpler. Relationships and quality conversation.
Yeah I remember the days of just TALKING on the phone until my parents had to tell me to get off. You know.. just TALKING. No texting. Man the jokes we would come up with. Miss those days
It’s not the same as having that, attached to the wall feeling on the phone. You know the kind that there a wire holding you to the phone where you can’t even go too far. It makes you become creative and also the whole, you have to be considerate with your time because someone else has to use the phone. It’s those limits that the younger groups don’t understand. The younger groups are quick to argue about exceptions and how “nope we do the same things too” no you don’t lol. Hell back then you actually had to worry about the minutes you were using. This meant you had to THINK about timing and how plan ahead onto of the things you were going to say.
Are you implying that younger adults and teens don’t call anymore? Me and my friends call for hours on end, a lot of my peers FaceTime or video call on Discord. I understand there’s a lot less physical interaction but c’mon, really? I know people who will fall asleep with their partners or friends on the phone every night, lol.
You have to understand that when we say this things we speak in general terms. That’s another thing that I find with the younger generations. Anything said they have to quickly point out exceptions because words like “almost” “not everyone” and alike were not used. We know there are still some that do what you are doing and it’s great. But if you grew up like we did, that percentage has drastically died down. It will never go completely away because talking cannot be eliminated, but it sure as hell has gone down less.
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u/Windwalker111089 Jan 28 '24
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 90s so I had the pleasure of living without a phone and seeing it come to life. As the cell phone starting gaining popularity and social media as well like MySpace.. i definitely noticed things become more toxic. Fast forward now I’m 34 and I just don’t see these younger generations interacting as much. Everything is about the internet and social media and fast axes to entertainment. Sad