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Smartphones ruined social media. msn, yahoo, ICQ, even Facebook for some years - i loved them before. When you felt lonely you just looked who was online from your list and said hello and chat a bit because most likely the person sat in front of his or her PC and had time. At least it was indicated by the online status. I miss this feeling sometimes very much.
Now that everyone is online all the time this is gone. Among grown ups you only write someone if you have something important to say like setting up a date or what, and among the younger you send only memes. And even if you start a conversation you don't (and can't) expect a real time answer but see it as so called async comversation.

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  • 3
    Holy crap!!!! This is so true!!!
  • 2
    MSN Messenger, those were the times. I still don't understand how they fucked it up in the end so bad with Windows Live and Skype.
  • 9
    I grew up through the transition to social media. Years ago, you'd just go knock on somebody's door if you wanted to talk to them, then you'd phone them to ask if it was OK to knock on their door, now it seems rude to phone them without asking by messaging them first.

    It feels very "deal with me right now no matter what you're doing" by phoning somebody.

    It's an odd and, frankly, quite strange progression of communication. It has become less personal but also more polite.
  • 1
    @cmarshall10450 It's neither odd or strange. I prefer it to be like this, honestly.

    I made it pretty apparent it in all my messaging apps' status: don't call me unless my house is on fire! Text, instead.

    The problem with smartphone is, it makes some people think that I am available 24 hours a day. Well, sorry to break it to them, but I am not.
  • 0
    Yeah it felt more natural to entertain each other with conversation and welcomed, now the whole world is competing to entertain you for the sake of selling you something or selling you as a product.
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