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Try to remember that people are more interesting than your phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by Mickey7 to c/comicstrips

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[–] SpaceNoodle 63 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ricdeh 10 points 6 days 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 28 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days 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 It reads like you're using historical documents to learn what people did before phones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 3 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

that is exactly what we are doing

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

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

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 11 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days 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 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You severely underestimate how boring most people are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days 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 1 points 6 days ago

Most people don't learn.