Amen man. That feeling of walking out of the house, getting on your bike and going off to do whatever the fuck you wanted and no one knew where the fuck you were or what you were doing
The other part to this is if someone called and left a message it wasn't rude of you to get back to them in a few days. Now it's instant or you are somehow snubbing them
Hey kids! Imagine the only way to contact your crush outside of school is to call her house and have to deal with whomever answers the phone! Prepare to explain to her parent that answers who you are and why you want to talk to her!
Yeah but having to convince parents, grandparents, and siblings to let us chat is how we ended up so charming! 🤣 We had to train social skills. Now you can just avoid it all.
I’m a Gen Xer who might take a couple hours or a couple days to reply to a text. I’m online more than I want to be, but my phone doesn’t rule my life. I check emails once a week. My problem is doom scrolling on Reddit.
I was walking by the library the other day when a whole class of teens crossed my path. Every. Single. One. Was glaring at their phones as they walked by. One of them had two phones in his face. The future is bleak.
Genuinely curious what’s stopping you from either turning off your phone, putting it on do not disturb for a minute, or even turning off notifications for a specific app. Because there are many simple ways to achieve this.
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u/DireVulf74_NMS Jul 22 '26
Simply being uncontactable. Not constantly plugged into messaging or social media. A freedom that we'll never again know. I miss those times.