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nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Agreed on that, it's a weird dichotomy. I think in a way the internet as a whole has had that effect on people.

Connections in real life don't feel a deep as I remember them being in the past and its so often you see a group of people out to dinner or drinks together staring at their phones. Meanwhile I have a lot of pretty decent connections online with people I've never met in person or maybe only once or twice.

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s an interesting perspective because I often feel the opposite. Especially post pandemic, I’ve gotten really into going out to bars and just talking to people. I barely even use my phone and sometimes will put it on do not disturb (unless wife calls) even while talking to people I barely know. They’re interesting folks.

But also I do have friends I made on the internet and have been greatly changed by internet interactions. Hell even my ideology was as I grew up on XKCD. But I’ve isolated myself to nothing but the internet before. Once with depression and fear as a queer teenager, and once with depression and fear as a person living through a global pandemic (thank fuck I had my wife for that), and I need quite a bit of face to face communication too or my brain loses its shit. And I need real irl community.

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- nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Based on the amount of screen time zoomers are reporting (saw some article about it recently and it was insane), I think there's a boatload of people who are glued to devices and not being present.
  
  I'm a good bit older than that and I've definitely been making an effort to get off my phone. I took all the social apps off about 3-4 months ago and it's been a big improvement. Gonna keep finding ways to unplug. I need to stop posting here during the day so much honestly. I'd probably get a lot more work done.
  
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  - captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I definitely do spend a lot of time on the phone it’s just I also need irl people time.
    
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