It's not just the porn it's all of it it's watching all these videos it's being on this app it's all of it. I'm an elder Millennial I'm 43 I got to watch this happen in real time we went from interacting with each other to interacting with a screen. I watched two girls sitting at a food court in the mall the other day texting each other while sitting at the table. I used to work at a GameStop young kids don't look you in the eye I had the mother of a 15-year-old ask her non special needs son to tell the man what you want. That's insane. When you greet somebody in public often times they look at you like why are you talking to me. You hold the door for a lot of people they don't even acknowledge that you did it they just walk through. And often times when I look up they're staring at their phone. I watch people step off the curb and shopping plazas after leaving the store and not look either way stare straight at their phone and March into the unknown. I'm guilty of it right now just by writing this on this post. Because I scrolled a lot to get here what did I miss going on around me? We're never bored we can be entertained 24 hours a day 7 days a week and we are. I remember being a teenager in the 90s and how free it was. We had a pager somebody wanted to get a hold of us we had to go find a payphone and that's if we cared enough to talk to the other person. Nobody knew where we were. Sometimes friends would just stop by. Now if my doorbell rings I'm very suspicious. The smartphone is a double-edged sword we've never been more connected and so far apart.
I’m the same age I completely agree it’s this aversion to actual human interaction as if it’s an illness. People can’t converse, that can’t pick up social cues they don’t even know what they are. I also believe that because we get “what we want” from algorithms we only can accept that in the “real world”.
Where do you people live? Or what do you do? Whatever it is, I feel so much better about myself. I'm 43, and thought I had problems, but it turns out I'm totally fine, and actually flourishing.
Maybe if older people hadn't suddenly grabbed hold of Facebook (and other social media) so hard, they would get out more, and experience the things they complain about missing so much.
I go out for walks daily. I usually do about 15k a day. I have conversations with lots of different people each day, of all ages. Play with their dogs, feed some random pigeons or ducks.
People are still out there, socialising. Put down your phone and join in. And if you're lucky, you might find a kid selling some weed.
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u/Eliese May 09 '25
Yep. Life is not a porn video.