People over 30, what do you generally miss that younger generations will never get to experience?

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I'll start. Being without the internet or cellphone and therefore focused more on my writing more and reading more books.

Screenwriter · Accepted Answer

I don't miss being without the internet or cellphone. They're easy to turn off if I don't want to be bothered. I exercise and take bike rides and walks without my cellphone, I work in my garden without it. If it's ringing with incessant unknown calls, I take my old phone off the hook and turn off my cell phone so I can read or take a walk around the park in peace.

But the computer and cellphone are wonderful conveniences when you need to contact people or look something up, or take a quick pix of information you need to show someone or send a picture.

The only things I think younger people might miss is nature experiences in places that are being denuded or polluted due to expanding human populations ignoring the facts that wild animals and forests are important to the planet.

And those facts affect me too because I haven't seen the Great Barrier Reef or African preserves to see those animals living wild.

Genie23 · Accepted Answer

How we used to live the moment and enjoy it rather than record each and everything. Nowadays people take pictures of everything. I've even seen people recording themselves so much.. this one lady got proposed while recording herself, when her partner got down on one knee to propose and was crying. She kept holding her phone close to her face to record herself crying rather than put it away and hug the man.

I also miss how we used to play in the playground and were so social and active which many (not all) kids don't do. They mostly just stay at home and busy with their parents ipad and their only way to socialise is by playing against someone online. Don't get me wrong, I used to play video games too but only during summer vacation after it was over, my parents would hide it so we kids can focus on school as well as go out and play in the park/ground.

strateguy632 · Accepted Answer

To @simslover92 you only described your lack of self control... set a timer when you are online , so when it beeps you STOP and put your phone in a drawer, silent, and "write more and reading more books." I write plenty! Because i have self control... not because i wish we didn’t have portable phones!  I NEED internet that is where i PUBLISH my poems rhymes and stories (different user name).  If you plan to meet someone at a certain place , but can't see them... what would you do without phones? Give up? Be lonely? Wait? Where would you wait?

Coden7 · Accepted Answer

I don’t see kids playing outside anymore. All of my memories as a kid was doing something outside with my friends

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

For me it would be the general safety. I played constantly outside, went exploring, and did everything without parental presence.

Now, I watch our current young just glued to that phone, and some parents take that away in a short sighted attempt to get them to be more like they were as a kid, but then don't give the kid the ability to "go do anything" at all. They're just stuck in the house and don't have their handheld computer/entertainment device... then wonder why the kid starts doing bad shit.

So what's changed? The reality that they'll get blacked, attacked, or kidnapped pretty damn fast out there where I used to roam around freely without those sorts of things being almost certain to happen. Sure we can restrict their screen time, but then what? ... Just let them be bored af with nothing to do?

WindAtMyBack · Answer

I think the biggest thing from my youth that modern kiss miss out on is the nomadic lifestyle. We were really into travel, hitch hiking, camping, backpacking, etc. We were really big into the outdoors and nature.

Young people were everywhere out on the road. The ramps along the highways could have a half dozen or more hitchikers at the same time. I've probably seen as many as 20+. I met people who were on the road for 2-3 years straight.

People don't travel like they used to. It is very different now and not as common. People think their phone / computer / Internet is the world. But they have never really seen anything except their local area and a screen.

A modern version is the digital nomad. But I think that is a very small part of the population who do that. If I was still able to do the engineering type of work I did before, I'd totally try for a digital nomad lifestyle. That would be the ultimate.

Straight2thepoint · Answer

The real meaning of friendship, love, adventures, goals, respect, and happiness. It highly artificial now. The younger gen seeks it and somehow understand something is missing because they hear it, or have been spoken to about it. They see it in older people and want to experience it. They feel it in the music that's older that them and not in what is new and is trending. They see in pictures. You see in our faces. In our way we carry ourselves. In the way we find composure when troubled. I'm not being self centered. I too found this and questioned my previous generation. So I decided to follow their steps. And not b! t-ch out. Add salt to the wounds, admit to faults, be man of my word, lead and not follow.

Tarifa · Answer

Just going out and playing with kids your age in the neighbourhood. We had a football we shared, some bikes and maybe a skateboard.

Kids nowadays have videogames, the latest 'smart' phone and still get bored.

Tamera952 · Answer

Privacy in general, and being able to be not reached, unlike today where there’s constant communication expectations. You used to be able to have some privacy and if you weren’t home, your weren’t home. You’d have to call the person back whenever you got back.

aaron13547 · Answer

Figuring it out myself. When I was growing up that's all I remember hearing when I asked adults why... "figure it out" or "think about what you just said" Today a person asks why and 100s of unqualified people are just shouting answers. Figuring it out myself I realized now was what made life fun. Its what gave me values and morals and character. Figuring it out myself is what made me the man I am.

Billlewis · Answer

The rampant condition in recent decades, in which practically no one wants to anywhere or do much of anything, unless they can do it online or in a car. The internet, I can understand, but this 'Carhead/Fast And Furious' culture seems tailor made for urban dumbasses, etc.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

True freedom (in terms of 'choices')

Communication alternatives

the ''Hippie'' feeling

motivation to INVENT something

clean beaches and clean sea water

free speech

time to think about an idea for longer than a week or so - without pressure for ''results''

and finally...

... a movie that's longer than -say- ten minutes.

mysteriousNicholas · Answer

@simslover92 dumb phones (basic phones with a keypad) ✌️😋 and fax machines and potentially, desktop computers (tower computers)

OffGridHomested · Answer

What i think the younger generations will miss. Is buying power of the dollar. I would go out the bar with 45 bucks and drink dance all night. Go to brunch with the gang for 5 bucks all hung over. We would rent 50 foot house boats and party all weekend. owned a new truck had a house do all kinds of trips concerts etc i made 39 k a year.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

No antisocial media terror and misinformation. No absent-minded smombies lurching in the streets. Real winters with 50cm of snow and the kids are outside building snowmen and igloos.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I'm over 30. I don't have my right age on here Yes, I agree with you. And also, the old Disney Channel and pre-911 air travel

Xawyx-2 · Answer

Going to video stores, being free from smartphones, having much less stress in their lives. Those were the days...

Mikeyyy999 · Answer

Technology being in EVERYTHING and societhy being too damn dependent on it. Just a few months ago, a hacker got into a computer system used by multiple hospitals in the state and caused major problems for a lot of hospitals and their patients🙄

dwreborn · Answer

I will say when I was a kid I could ride my bike and walk on side of road and now I don't dare let my daughter do it cause of cell phones and driving afraid she will get hit

jazzy34 · Answer

Everything. Literally everything. The nineties and early noughties were just a different, special time.

AviatorTom · Answer

Getting lost without a map, and having to ask someone for directions. That happened to me a few times, and some interesting discussions can result, with some very interesting people.

loveyouoak · Answer

I'm not over 30, but I wanted to write; I really miss going out and playing games with my friends--hide and seek, dodgeball, hopscotch, capture the flag. Sadly, the streets just aren't safe for that anymore.

sage2021 · Answer

Not so much traffic and not so many people making everything take too darn long now!!

Kaneki05 · Answer

Gah all these boomer takes are hard to read flee's away from this question and oh no... I only have a few years before I'm one of them!

WhitneySnow · Answer

I’m not over 30 but I admit that my phone can sometimes distract me from writing or reading books

Joshydavid25 · Answer

The amount of good and creative cartoons we had on T. V, and looking forward to new episodes of them every Friday..

genericname85 · Answer

people attenting concerts and festivals to actually look at the performer, not at their phone, taking videos and pictures of the performer just to never be looked at again.

exitseven · Answer

Having fun by just playing with my friends with no parental supervision.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Going to the pub to drink cheap beer with your mates.

dudeinohio · Answer

Really, nothing. Stuff just gets better and better technology wise.

qwerty2469 · Answer

Going to the mall on the weekend amd buying tons of stuff for 5 dollars on a 1 dollar allowance and a 4 dollar an hour part time job.

Jennz6 · Answer

Reading and arithmetic

Anonymous · Answer

a stable family on a single income

Deepinthought345 · Answer

Analog... Being disconnected. Being bored

Staximus · Answer

No homeless junkies everywhere

RedInnocent69 · Answer

The magic and wonder of the internet

ohsheeT · Answer

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slatyb · Answer

Uncrowded parks.

DrPepper12 · Answer

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