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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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 It reads like you're using historical documents to learn what people did before phones

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

that is exactly what we are doing

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz -3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You severely underestimate how boring most people are.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Most people don't learn.

[–] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago
[–] superkret@feddit.org 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago
[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 18 points 2 weeks ago
[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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... 🤔

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, we bots are people, too!

[–] LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

There’s people in my phone, so…

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Schorsch@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

At least one thing that has become better.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

people are NOT more interesting than my phone and i'll not apologize for saying so

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

alles klar, Explodierer.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This seems to have hit too close to home.

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

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