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• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes I meant talk to them. It’s what we used to do back before social media melted most people’s brains.

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  • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OK Grampa (I say this as someone in my 50s) - but that’s not the same kind of communication that twitter is for.

    Back in my grandparents’ youth people would write letters to each other and send them through the mail, but the phone is good for other kinds of interaction, just like social media is good for yet other kinds of interaction.

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So maybe you just jumped to spew your cumload into the conversation, but the original person to whom I replied indicated that it was specifically their friends they were socializing with. And sorry if this sounds too grandpa to you, but tweeting is not a friendship. I see how many young kids these days have “friendships” online but in the real world they couldn’t give a shit about one-another. That’s not friendship.

      So, what I was saying to that person is that for your actual real life friends is not a reason to stay on Twitter. Go get together in person and interact the way humans have for the past half million years.

      Oh but excuse me for being a grandpa because obviously the toxic and impersonal method of socializing you kids do today is just so much cooler than the way it’s been done for half million years. Clearly, Homo Sapiens was just lame. It’s so lucky that the little brats of today have come along and we’ve finally been given the gift of wisdom of pimpled tweens to know how to relate to one-another: facelessly, voiceless, distanced and atonal on a screen.

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      • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh but excuse me for being a grandpa because obviously the toxic and impersonal method of socializing you kids do today

        You didn’t even catch that I’m in my 50s but I’m supposed to be concerned with your analysis?

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