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[–] VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

GenX, here. You are so very, very wrong. Phones and internet have made anxiety disorders endemic. We’re constantly bombarded with information, alerts, opinions, information and misinformation…

Young people have never experienced what it’s like to have privacy. To leave the house and be totally unreachable. To get answering machine messages that you had no obligation to immediately respond to.

I’m in big tech and helped develop all this shit. We made it addictive on purpose. I’d love to go back to how things were in the 90s, and I’m not waxing nostalgic. Things were objectively better before all this crap.

[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe I am, but I don’t think so. I’m a Xennial and also workin tech. You and I feel the same but I don’t think we’re in the majority. It might not be 90% but I think we are the ever shrinking minority that feels this way.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

I am a Zillenial and also think this way, lol.

[–] VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Heh. I read the title of this post backwards. You and I are saying the same thing!