Remember life without social media?

[GOAT]

3 hours ago, Paa Langfart said:

I don't remember anyone carrying a television around with them and checking it 24/7.

I'm sure you remember "all you do is sit around and watch TV all day" though.

screen time is screen time my G.

[Teddy2SuperBowlHeartBreaks]

I'm going to rant. I'm 29. I deleted all of my social media accounts in 2020 (including my old huddle account). I have one friend that I talk to via text, and my wife, and other than that I basically don't exist anymore to anybody that I met prior to 2020. Quite frankly I like being 'anonymous' and having no idea what stupid thing is trending or popular on the internet. I also generally spend more of my time being productive and working on my business or hobbies, or sitting around and brainstorming. When important things happen someone in real life will tell me. I imagine its easier to shun social media as an introvert, and I thank god he made me introverted because when I was heavy on social media my mental health was absolute garbage.

Humans weren't designed to be "connected" to one another 24/7, (this is what makes social media more harmful than TV imo) but interests will ensure that people will be glued to their screens, consuming junk. And I think that is what I've taken from my social media hiatus, people are extremely easy to manipulate through content, and if you are a real sociopath you can push an agenda, or just get people to buy your bs product, which is all social media is, a marketplace masquerading as a 'social network' to connect people. That and literal government/batshit crazy groups propaganda. Sites like the Huddle are 'better' in that we are all here based on our shared interest of football and the Carolina Panthers, as opposed to being on the site because 'its the site everybody in the world is on'. 

All of that is to say social media isn't going anywhere, and the algorithms will make it more addicting as time goes on. Like there is no stopping it. Your kids will be addicted to whatever the popular app is, and the app will raise your children. That app will raise everybody's child, and you can see how this ultimately changes society as a whole. To compare it to TV is severely misguided.

[thefuzz]

On 3/28/2023 at 8:08 PM, CamWhoaaCam said:

Im just old enough to remember the times when having a cell phone was rare. My parents didn't have a GPS when we traveled and would read the signs on the road to get directions. We would get lost so many times but that didn't stop them from getting to our destination. Life seemed more fun and peaceful back then. We didn't know what was going on around the world. The times we spent as a family meant much more because we weren't all in our cellphones using social media apps. 

 

Now the world revolves around social media. Everybody looking for likes and trying to become famous on tik tok. Life just isn't the same. Social media changed the world for the worst. Humans can't function without a cell phone now. 30 years ago we were all living life without social media. Crazy how much life has changed. I honestly missed life before social media. Seemed a lot more stress free and people had more love for each other.

 

Oldheads talk to me which life did you prefer new age or old age?

It was much more calm and serine, but do we tend to remember things more glowingly than they actually were.

That said, yes, I long for the past.  I do love being able to "work" and earn money from "anywhere", however, with that comes great responsibility, and annoyance.

I can do the majority of my "job" from an island in the Bahamas, and I do when I go...however you are still working, and not getting the needed down time to not burn yourself out.  People want immediacy, and they now expect it due to cell phones, and the ability to access the internet from 99% of the locations where you find yourself.

As to the social media aspect of this, I do think that it's a cancer, the vanity and flash I see on IG is gross, just plain gross, and the children plastered across FB is unsettling to me....just very little good out there.

[Paa Langfart]

On 3/29/2023 at 9:30 PM, GOAT said:

I'm sure you remember "all you do is sit around and watch TV all day" though.

screen time is screen time my G.

Actually no I do not.  Never did when I was growing up and still don't.

[OceanPanther]

I'm 70,,  I remember finding a USA Today on the mornings to catch up with sports in details. ESPN was more of snippet show. It's worse now.. (  365 days a year of NBA , Kyire , KD etc,, can't watch it ) 

As a kid I took the Sporting News..  baseball was big in the 60's ,

Yes, I saw gas for $0.15 a gallon when a station would start a gas war lol..  it was normally about $0.25 a gallon.  The old joke was a guy on the motor bike ( Honda lol ) would drive up, flip the attendant ( yes there were attendants lol )  flip him a quarter and say fill'er up. 

This post was made entirely for me to take shots at ESPN 

[Anybodyhome]

Ah, yes. The days of 3 network TV stations and then PBS arrived on a UHF channel.

Our first color TV was built by my father. He was an electrical engineer by trade and ordered a Heathkit TV. Took months to build. He'd spend a couple hours a night soldering components onto an array of circuit boards and, when it was all said and done, it was a decent TV.

Heathkit was a company in the upper Midwest somewhere that sold household electronics in kit form to build yourself.

[KSpan]

I recall the early(ish) days of social media as fun and fairly lighthearted, circa 2000 -2007. However, that was when FB started with ads, and it's been all downhill from there.