I agree with you regarding the damage from the internet.

I'm younger Gen X, and remember getting a cell phone my first year in college: still being the only one in my eight-floor dorm with one, in an era when previously, the only people who had cell phones as a normal part of life used them for business. Text messages weren't a thing yet, either. It was only my last year in college that you could get a decent 3MP digital camera with 3x analog zoom for $200-300. Before that, digital cameras were totally inferior to 35mm film except for the ability to take photos instantly without the hassle, time or cost of processing film.

Email then became commonplace, and people didn't handwrite and mail letters nearly as often, but it was not at all unusual for people to still write LONG emails in the pre-social media days. You could also go on a forum, and ask a question and get thoughtful answers, and there were no such things as upvotes or likes, people just said "hey thanks, man." The short attention span thing became the norm when Twitter became popular, and the overuse of puns and acting like a smartass without contributing anything really took over when Reddit killed smaller forums.

I agree with you regarding the damage from the internet.

I'm younger Gen X, and remember getting a cell phone my first year in college: still being the only one in my eight-floor dorm with one, in an era when previously, the only people who had cell phones as a normal part of life used them for business. Text messages weren't a thing yet, either. It was only my last year in college that you could get a decent 3MP digital camera with 3x analog zoom for $200-300. Before that, digital cameras were totally inferior to 35mm film except for the ability to take photos instantly without the hassle, time or cost of processing film.

Email then became commonplace, and people didn't handwrite and mail letters nearly as often, but it was not at all unusual for people to still write LONG emails in the pre-social media days. You could also go on a forum, and ask a question and get thoughtful answers, and there were no such thing as upvotes or likes, people just said "hey thanks, man." The short attention span thing became the norm when Twitter became popular, and the overuse of puns and acting like a smartass without contributing anything really took over when Reddit killed smaller forums.

I agree with you regarding the damage from the internet.

I'm younger Gen X, and remember getting a cell phone my first year in college: still being the only one in my eight-floor dorm with one, in an era when previously, the only people who had cell phones as a normal part of life used them for business. Text messages weren't a thing yet, either.

Email then became commonplace, and people didn't handwrite and mail letters nearly as often, but it was not at all unusual for people to still write LONG emails in the pre-social media days. You could also go on a forum, and ask a question and get thoughtful answers, and there were no such thing as upvotes or likes, people just said "hey thanks, man." The short attention span thing became the norm when Twitter became popular, and the overuse of puns and acting like a smartass without contributing anything really took over when Reddit killed smaller forums.