Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory?

1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it’s on Lemmy too.

  Kinda hard to gauge the degree though.

  Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Is anyone reading this or is it all just bots jerking each other off?

  But everyone seems to rather sit on their phones or being plugged into music than to talk to strangers and live your life in the real world.

  I grew up in the 80s.

  People stared at their newspapers/comic books or their Gameboys or had eyes closed listening to head phones or just tried not to make eye contact.

  There was not some golden era when talking to strangers was normal and people were living in the “real” world. Today isn’t nearly as divorced from the past is people like to pretend.

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