Do you remember old days before social media 🤣😃?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Life was much simpler. Fewer distractions and more real contact with people instead of staring at our smartphones. I remember life clearly before social media use, and while it wasn’t perfect, it seemed that some things in the world worked better while others were much slower.

Before social media, people were less connected but more involved in their communities. They had fewer connections online but stronger relationships in real life: they went to church together on Sundays or played board games as a family; they met at bars after work; they helped each other move into new houses or build fences around their property.

Although social media is a great way to stay in touch with friends, family members and celebrities, it’s its downsides. Even if you want to give yourself a break once in a while, there are plenty of other ways you can stay in touch with others without having to justify why you need that time off from the Internet.

Think about how many times you looked at your phone in a single day and multiply that by 365 days in a year. That’s a lot of time, even if you only check one social media account a day. Think about what you could do with that time!

Social Media Has Shifted This Paradigm by Allowing Us to Share With Others Exactly Who We’re – Not Just Our Carefully Curated Version of Ourselves, but Who We Really Are: With All the Rough Edges!

ArrowheadSW · Accepted Answer

Yes I certainly do. How did we survive! LOL... I remember when not only were there no cell phones, but almost no one had answering machines at home. If you wanted to get ahold of someone, they actually had to be HOME.

I like social media to keep up with old friends. It is easy to see what they've been up to.

TenderFantasy · Accepted Answer

Before social media we already had telephones, Casio messengers:

Do you remember old days before social media 🤣😃?

I had this as a child. You and your best friends and other friends could pretty much send text messages to each other with this.

Beepers, and yeah,

People always found WAYS to communicate other than America Online, Web TV, back then. Even passing notes in school.

And people on T. V. actually had to have TALENT to get on. They'd do Talent Searches on T. V. for great singers:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LvLQEsIIg-I

And if you wanted to share something funny, you'd only be able to show it to friends and family. If you wanted the "WHOLE WORLD" to see it, or at least America, you'd have to send it to:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yseillPEjGQ

Or talked in person, if possible.

annabananna · Accepted Answer

Anyone used to chat on yahoo? I remember those days

serious_miss419 · Answer

I had a set of encyclopedias. Used a phone book to find a number or look up a business. Used a paper map to get directions. Folded lined paper into a fun shape, that had a note inside of it, which we’d hand to friends. I could go for a bike ride and find my friends, or they would find me, based on the bikes on peoples front lawns. My phone plugged into the wall at home and it remained there, in the wall at all times. If someone wanted pictures to keep, we’d bring in the roll and pick it up in two eels.

Bring that sh*t back

AmeerX · Answer

Yes it was peaceful. Internet used to be slow and we used to do prank calls 🤙 wrong numbers trying to talk to foreigners 😅. Telephone was very expensive and usually ran out of luck.

Then email came, then things changed during the 2000s when Orkut (I never used it) came with so many people sharing nudes and leaking nudes in revenge. Now, I think in some more years people will be fed up with Social media.

Like I don't use FB as more than a messaging side. Tried other sites but they consume a lot of my time. I keep this and Fb and sometimes I use Reddit but it's not as good as Gag for sure

oliver4love · Answer

Yeah I think it's more peace and love between the people's around us before social media and everyone have a great care about relationships but now everyone busy in fb, Whatspp, Insta etc

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I wasn't a social media junkie when I was younger. I bought a MacBook and did not use it for at least 7 years because I was too busy visiting libraries and hanging out with friends or going to church to go online and my cell phone was just for text and had no internet capacity on it.

TrueConfection · Answer

Ah, the days of real life. Now everything is virtual... Virtual meetings, virtual classes, virtual parties, virtual tours. I miss real invitations, eye contact, and social gatherings.

AmandaYVR · Answer

I do. It was boring at times, but we were entertained easier. And people went outside. And paid attention to others. Now there is rampant anxiety, and people are never satisfied. More, more, more. Nom, nom, nom.

Cassie88 · Answer

Yes I can. We called it the 1990's. The internet existed, but crap like Fakebook, TikTox and Twitler didn't.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Yes and I often called those days the "normal days" before social media "changed the landscape" of normalcy.

Ill_made_Knight · Answer

HAH... bet his junk came out all low res and pixelated too... Seriously though, that's back when PM's looked like this

exitseven · Answer

Yes, in a lot of ways communication was better. We did this quaint thing called writing letters. You actually sat down and put some thought into what you wrote.

Guy13 · Answer

Wow…. you must be old. When I did a research project on SM it officially began in mid 1970 with DMs, Bulletin Board Systems, and professor to professor exchanges. It really took off 85-90.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I do now a little bit. I was in elementary school. I didn't really start using social media until I got to high school. Yeah, it was certainly a different world. Maybe those days were better. People were forced to do in person activities.

AviatorTom · Answer

You mean, when people used to talk to each other? And write letters and send cards? Yep, I remember those days. Where did they go?

WonderBell99 · Answer

Not really, I got my first electronic when I was around 6, so I don’t remember much before that.

Sparkie460 · Answer

Yes I remember the good old days. We used to play in the streets. Write letters to each other. Call friends on the phone. Hang out at the arcades or the beach. We were never in the house unless it was raining.

Guardian45 · Answer

The first dating organization I used, you wrote a letter sealed it in two envelopes and mailed it. The dating organization opened the outer envelope and mailed the inner envelop to the other person!😂🤣🤪👍 The Good Ole Days!

Nikki1989 · Answer

Well, I do remember when people knew how to talk to each other.

Andres77 · Answer

That was funny. Yes, the sexual flirting that went into a letter that wasn’t answered for a month. Took forever

SweetTwistedSatanist · Answer

😂😂😂😂 not me I already had it. School once tried to get us to be oenpals with another school using letters. Yeah nobody did that.

BlueM0nkey · Answer

I wasn't around before social media but I remember in my very early childhood (Before I started school) I wasn't very exposed to the internet, so I basically lived like a 90's kid entertaining myself with whatever was around me.

Massageman · Answer

Heck- I remember when a fridge would last 30 years!

Anonymous · Answer

Life was like a movie back then and people believed in love. Life now is more like a nightmare sometimes.

boobliker · Answer

firstly we never had dick picks, but we did have more fun finding girls to talk to and we new how to, unlike these days. back every call cost lots

BJP21 · Answer

Party lines of the 70s and 80s, social media was called playing outside with all the neighborhood kids and getting into mischief.

Rizwan_khan · Answer

Yes and those days are far better from nowdays. Now days people are now getting slaves of mobile and social media a/c.

Aakash_Hangargi · Answer

I wonder by that Dpic did size really matter you can't tell cause the paper is small 😂

Anonymous · Answer

Yes. I was born before social media became popular. I still don't have social media. That's how attached i feel i am to how life is better without it.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

Yea like the 2000s when I was in primary school. And first 2 years in highschool.  It all started around 2010

LiamJHayden · Answer

Not really. I was like 7 when MySpace was founded.

LemiaOfThunder · Answer

Sites Like Bebo and MySpace or Messaging apps like MSN Messager.

OddBeMe · Answer

My first phone was the Nokia brick. The AOL sounds remind me of the porn I searched for.

DrawingBlanks · Answer

Yup. In those days we didn't really know who all the narcissists and attention seekers were. Now we do.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes. A great time before the dumbest of us all had the same voice as the brilliant. So much less hate spread. There was a time kids were child like and went outside.

Anonymous · Answer

Not really. It wasn’t as popular and prominent as it was back then but it was there

dustybiker · Answer

I miss those days.

SphynxUK · Answer

I remember the time before mobile phones!

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Do I remember most of my life? Yes.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

It was the same but less drama.

DavidRaul · Answer

Yes. Those days were better

talka20 · Answer

I definitely remember but that meme😂😭😭

Grond21 · Answer

Yep. It was so different

HippieVeganJewslim · Answer

I think so. I remember the 20th century.

HaveNoName · Answer

Will pay anything to get those days back.

legalboxers · Answer

I remember dialup and BBSes

shortster · Answer

Yes, Facebook started when I was in college.

malwins · Answer

I wish intwrnet wouldn't exist

krin_m · Answer

Ha ha, yes I do! :-)

CubaPirate · Answer

Yes it was called real life

robocop666 · Answer

I have never ever sent a dic pic

Hirushan · Answer

I love that old days.

Danny_dan92 · Answer

Oh wow

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Hahahaha

zagor · Answer

Fondly.

Drachen · Answer

Hahaha! Too funny.

LavLavLuv · Answer

Lmaoo ya

Passing_by · Answer

Lol 😂

roy_ricky09 · Answer

Better days

Smartman5 · Answer

Some

EaterPeter · Answer

I guess

eagle1951 · Answer

yeah

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