• @SpaceNoodle
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    637 days ago

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

    • @ricdeh
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      107 days ago

      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.

      • themeatbridge
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        287 days ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          127 days ago

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 It reads like you’re using historical documents to learn what people did before phones

          • themeatbridge
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            37 days ago

            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.

          • FQQD
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            -37 days ago

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

        • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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          117 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      17 days ago

      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.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        36 days ago

        You severely underestimate how boring most people are.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 days ago

          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.

  • NeilBrü
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    197 days ago

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

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    107 days ago

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

  • SavvyWolf
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    87 days ago

    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.

  • nifty
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    36 days ago

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