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  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
    31·
    2 months ago

    Life before cellphones and internet.

    Did you know in 1990 only .25% of the world’s population (12.5 million) had cellphones and only .05% (2.8 million) had internet?

    It feels like we sacrificed local community and connection for global information overload and disconnection sometimes.

    • VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      GenX, here. You are so very, very wrong. Phones and internet have made anxiety disorders endemic. We’re constantly bombarded with information, alerts, opinions, information and misinformation…

      Young people have never experienced what it’s like to have privacy. To leave the house and be totally unreachable. To get answering machine messages that you had no obligation to immediately respond to.

      I’m in big tech and helped develop all this shit. We made it addictive on purpose. I’d love to go back to how things were in the 90s, and I’m not waxing nostalgic. Things were objectively better before all this crap.

      • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 months ago

        Maybe I am, but I don’t think so. I’m a Xennial and also workin tech. You and I feel the same but I don’t think we’re in the majority. It might not be 90% but I think we are the ever shrinking minority that feels this way.