Remember distinctly back in 2005-2010's, everyone was happy, well adjusted, had REAL social lives, hanged out with everyone, were really chill and there were less sociopathic/psychopathic behaviors. Then the 2012's came and you see this shit: >suddenly everyone is “taking selfies” >constantly doing faggot shit with their phone >”what is this psychotic, self-documenting behavior” >refuse to be a part of it >”what’s your facebook user”? >”oh.....you don’t have one? Oh... I’m” >”what’s your insta”? >“Oh...you...don’t have one”? >start to see the most hyper social faggots getting all the irl attention and social status because they can manipulate social media to make their life look cool >the reality is they’re just sitting around with other phone staring faggots taking pictures
Instead of say hanging out, just skating or playing basketball and other team-oriented sports, being with groups playing on our PC in LAN parties or just having fun with every chick we see and catcalling them as a joke amongst ourselves, everyone is now glued on their phones all day pretending they have a life. Truth is most people now just stare at their phones all day then pretend they're the coolest shit with their bants and pics.
Friends slowly pulled away while I slowly isolated myself because of this unwillingness to get on board. This world is so fucking gay. It’s only gotten worse because of COVID. Before, I would have conversations with 15-50 people DAILY. Now, it's been reduced to around 5 people per day. I literally will be shitposting on Any Forums on my phone going for a walk because the second I put my phone down, I see nothing but horror. Nobody actually lives their life they just stare at their fucking phone all day every day, bully and harass others that they don't like to the point of suicide while in real life, pretend they like you or are your friends but will expose themselves what they really think once they post their toxicity on social media platforms.
While social media sites like Friendster and Myspace existed before, people weren't plugged in 24/7 since you needed a PC for that. With the advent of the iPhone and the smartphones that followed with it, everything suddenly changed. What went wrong with this world and where are the sane individuals who has formed communities other than the Amish who outright reject every form of technology after the 1800s?
If I could opt out in this world and join a community where social media shit and smartphones are banned, where acting and socializing like a NORMAL human being while not outright totally neglecting technology but only removing the toxic aspects of it, I would in a heartbeat.
I dont remember much, I was a drunk druggie. I kicked all that and i'm alive but have major health issues now as well as nothing left in life but regrets.
Zachary Kelly
face it guys.. we need women more than they need us. we are fucked. I suffer every day knowing I will never have a gf or wife or kids. I figure I will just watch porn, drink, and die in a few years. I think this is the truth of our fate in modern times. Oh well I guess it could be worse
Nathan Mitchell
Stop drinking, it messes with your BRAIN
Bentley Hernandez
How are you a loser when there’s no winners on a sinking ship?
>suffer every day knowing >Oh well I guess The problem lies within YOU
Jaxson Green
Well at least your alive if that means anything
Brandon White
probably bait, but i relate so fucking much.
Tyler Sanchez
Interesting. I had a similar experience. I’m an early 90’s baby so I remember what things were like before social media. The odd thing is that I thought that Facebook and things would be a passing fad - no one can possibly be so shallow, vapid and narcissistic? Right? I certainly didn’t think it would become such a big part of everyone’s lives.
Anyways, yeah I was a chad up until Instagram came out. I was tired of social media and so I never made one (I had FB though that some girl created for me). Basically most people ostrasicized me except for a couple of my good friends and I stopped getting pussy. Interestingly, I have noticed that normies are beggining to become fatigued with social media a bit, especially the zoomers. I think that social media was a shock to our collective social fabric and people needed some time to adjust.
"I never made a Facebook... I just made one and without doing anything at all it recommended me someone I talk to that I never went to school with and lives a good distance away... no idea how it did that
then just the thought of people I went to school with looking me up gave me anxiety..."
Henry Hernandez
80s boomer here. I grew up without the internet. A wonderful and pure childhood with family, friends, photo albums, movie nights, baseball in the open field, building forts, Nintendo, could smoke cigarettes anywhere you'd like, going to the mall and arcade, talking to girls you liked and seeing them blush, and it's the happiest I've ever been. It was the last time the world felt real and free and everyone was on the same page. The internet created a different reality with different friends. It created personas instead of personality. It's not the real world, yet more and more people live there. You can say to yourself that you'll never participate, but you'll still be as lonely and detached since everyone else is in the alternate reality already. I don't know how to fix it either. I just sit alone and think of how it used to be and turn into the boomer that smiles going through his old memories. I'd give it all to go back bros.
The 'surveillance trifecta’, which you are willingly paying for, installing and beta-testing for free, (and btw, none of this surveillance grid is possible without your cell phone), which we are all constantly compelled to be a part of: 1) implement 5G every few hundred feet to provide a real time 3D matrix for temporal and spatial tracking 2) getting citizens to hold a digital wallet and the implementation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) under the guise of a government stable coin 3) vaccine passports (this failed lel) Use cash and barter as much as possible, no matter what country you are from. And get off your phone, too.
>back in 2005-2010's, everyone was happy, well adjusted, had REAL social lives, hanged out with everyone, were really chill and there were less sociopathic/psychopathic behaviors
Damn this just made me sad. Take me back to that era when human beings still acted like human beings. Now, people have replaced the real with the virtual, personas with personality. Everyone lives fake lives now. Whenever we hang out, faggot zoomers now take selfies instead of just enjoying the place and each other's companies. Fuck this world.
Josiah Turner
Only two hundred and twelve bucks? Or did you forget a 0?
