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  • VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      meh. yeah it’s been bad for mental health but… what did you read while shitting, the back of the shampoo bottle?

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      I don’t think you understand what anxiety is if you think being totally unreachable as a solution to modern anxiety…

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      10 hours ago

      I’m a millennial who’s old enough to remember those days. It’s an absolutely huge difference, though at least if you’re expecting a phone call, you don’t have to scuttle your whole day sitting by the landline.

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      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.