I'm just very grateful to have gone through high school and college before smartphones. Facebook was still limited to just people in your college which lead to many dates and new friends than the usual methods. It also didn't have photos (other than your profile pic) which kept most of the proto-onlyfans attention whore thots away from it.
Once smartphones hit everything changed. Work lunches used to be fun and full of conversation, but then it became a chore as everyone anti-socially finger fucked their phones rather than talk to the humans right in front of them. Dating got more annoying for similar reasons and I openly chastised girlfriends for whipping out their phones during dates THEY demanded I take them on.
2010 was a better time to be on the Internet.
Pre-smartphone internet had a built in NPC-filter that vanished as soon as the right apps were deployed on iPhone
smartphones were the second eternal September
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
smartphones and social media were a fucking mistake
I'm just very grateful to have gone through high school and college before smartphones. Facebook was still limited to just people in your college which lead to many dates and new friends than the usual methods. It also didn't have photos (other than your profile pic) which kept most of the proto-onlyfans attention whore thots away from it.
Once smartphones hit everything changed. Work lunches used to be fun and full of conversation, but then it became a chore as everyone anti-socially finger fucked their phones rather than talk to the humans right in front of them. Dating got more annoying for similar reasons and I openly chastised girlfriends for whipping out their phones during dates THEY demanded I take them on.
You are right, but greed always wins.