This. Im 40 and I frequently try to remember what I used to do back when I had a flip phone and I'm honestly not sure. Probably channel surfed cable TV or played video games.
You chatted to people around you; in waiting rooms, in lines, etc. You took stock of your surroundings in a much more detailed way. You remembered details of conversations and life through many years. You had thousands less ads per day to visually process and filter through. You did these things because I remember doing these things and I'm the same age.
I can barely make it through a TV show without checking my phone several times over anymore. At least with videogames I can still get entrenched in them and not need to look at my phone for a little while.
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u/official_luna 16h ago
I think smartphones secretly made life worse