Those before what? For you it feels likethere was a “before" and a now, but for me (54 years old) it feels like continuity. So many people keep asking this question, or promoting some pseudo “better before” era, that I’m starting to wonder if the world didn’t just wake up dumb.When cellphones didn’t exist, the idea of a cellphone‑based world didn’t even occur to us…except in science fiction. Now that I have a smartphone, I’m just glad I can video‑call my kid, buy groceries online while I’m on the road, and get home to cook. There’s nothing “better” or “worse.” Rude people always existed. In my time, you’d walk into a room, say hello, and there was always that one guy who wouldn’t even lift his eyes from his sports magazine.
Yet what it did over the time with society is concerning (how much impact social media had since it was introduced).
Personally, I’m just mostly annoyed, by the growing level of bullshit, and having to filter all of this.
You can’t even believe shopping sites anymore because they’re infested with often incorrect AI-slop.
But yeah when filtering all that slop, it can be better even, there’s endless educative material on Youtube when you search for it. Wikipedia is a really great source of information etc. So it’s mostly the amount of information that you have to properly filter (which in itself can be exhausting though, since all these big-internet corpos are tuned to get your attention in any way).
Those before what? For you it feels likethere was a “before" and a now, but for me (54 years old) it feels like continuity. So many people keep asking this question, or promoting some pseudo “better before” era, that I’m starting to wonder if the world didn’t just wake up dumb.When cellphones didn’t exist, the idea of a cellphone‑based world didn’t even occur to us…except in science fiction. Now that I have a smartphone, I’m just glad I can video‑call my kid, buy groceries online while I’m on the road, and get home to cook. There’s nothing “better” or “worse.” Rude people always existed. In my time, you’d walk into a room, say hello, and there was always that one guy who wouldn’t even lift his eyes from his sports magazine.
This. Thanks.
Yet what it did over the time with society is concerning (how much impact social media had since it was introduced). Personally, I’m just mostly annoyed, by the growing level of bullshit, and having to filter all of this. You can’t even believe shopping sites anymore because they’re infested with often incorrect AI-slop.
But yeah when filtering all that slop, it can be better even, there’s endless educative material on Youtube when you search for it. Wikipedia is a really great source of information etc. So it’s mostly the amount of information that you have to properly filter (which in itself can be exhausting though, since all these big-internet corpos are tuned to get your attention in any way).