I grew up before cell phones and internet AMA

amother

Outerspace

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:15 pm

amother OP wrote:

Ask away

I also grew up before cellphones and internet
Can we become double celebrities now? Wink

Remember the car phones? It was a rich man's thing.
And no one got that number! It was "pryvet"!

amother

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:23 pm

amother Kiwi wrote:

What did you DO all day????

Did homework
Read
Read
Read
Talked on the phone with friends
Baked
Cooked
Helped with hoisehold chores
Rode my bike
Went to the mall

I could keep on going. Smile

I love that I grew up with none of whats become just regular, now.

amother

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:25 pm

amother Outerspace wrote:

I also grew up before cellphones and internet
Can we become double celebrities now? Wink

Remember the car phones? It was a rich man's thing.
And no one got that number! It was "pryvet"!

I did not know one person who had one.
My parents got cell phones, with nothing but the actual ability to call people, not even texting, when I started university.

amother

Outerspace

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:31 pm

amother OP wrote:

I did not know one person who had one.
My parents got cell phones, with nothing but the actual ability to call people, not even texting, when I started university.

My uncles had them. They were the rich men in our community.

I remember before my wedding debating if a young couple should or shouldn't have a caller ID.
It was a new thing then.

amother

Peru

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:31 pm

Did people have better relationships back then?

I love calling my grandmother, because I know that when we talk on the phone, she's completely focused on me and our conversation. She will sit down and just talk to me, not looking at or doing anything else. Whereas some others (including my mother), I can tell I only have half their attention. I think she checks her WhatsApp Facebook etc while we are on the phone. or, she's rushing to get off the phone to check social media watch something, etc.

amother

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:32 pm

amother Burntblack wrote:

Did you not feel sooooo disconnected from the rest of the world? LOL

Not at all. The entire world was like that.
We watched the news on tv or heard things on the radio.
We wrote letters to friends. It was a different world.

amother

Tulip

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:35 pm

My chassidish kids are growing up the same old fashioned way.
The exception is, my daughter who got a flip phone in High School and I give her access to the internet for regents, spark notes and Youtube when she needs math explained.

amother

Cerise

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:42 pm

amother Peru wrote:

No
Those were some very traumatized generations. My father tried telling me once that in those days people were calmer and I challenged him on that. He didn’t like it. No, not he nor the generation before him were calmer people. They were very nervous angry people who were disconnected from themselves and others.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk

amother

Poppy

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:42 pm

happyone wrote:

Me too... life was good.

Same here. I bought a cell phone bc I wanted to join the 21st century. A classic example of being careful of what you ask for. Yeah I get to WhattsApp, text, google stuff, but I became disfunctional bc I spend too much time on the internet. So addicted. One good thing that came out of it is I get to buy things online w/o going into stores. But I question if that is really good bc I’ve lost that human contact aspect of life. I hate the emotionless part of texting.

giftedmom

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:43 pm

amother Tulip wrote:

Not really
Show them a picture of a tape or a beeper lol. Can’t really turn back the clock.

amother

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:46 pm

amother Cerise wrote:

What years are you talking about?
I did not grow up nervous or angry.
We were far from disconnected.
I feel like we are talking about different generations. I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

amother

Burntblack

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:48 pm

giftedmom wrote:

Not really
Show them a picture of a tape or a beeper lol. Can’t really turn back the clock.

Who said anything about a tape? I don't see an issue with moving on from that, it's not like we didn't have record players before tapes.

amother

Cerise

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:50 pm

amother OP wrote:

What years are you talking about?
I did not grow up nervous or angry.
We were far from disconnected.
I feel like we are talking about different generations. I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

Mostly gen X and above. My parents were born in the 60s and grew up in the 70s. Their parents were the first generation post holocaust.

amother

Burntblack

Mon, Jan 01 2024, 12:51 pm

amother Cerise wrote:

I think you went off a tangent here. it's true that in the times before SM as as widely popular as it is today people had more patience to talk to others, they gave them their full attention because there wasn't that much to distract them with. Being calm is a different thing.