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jrmg | 10 days ago

It’s returned to nothing. Losing touch with people you didn’t contact regularly was the norm until the mid 2000s.

For someone who grew up in the ‘golden years’ of social media, it’s kinda weird to see.

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munificent|10 days ago

The thing is, before social media, we did have a culture of periodically reaching out and calling people. Those muscles completely atrophied though, so when we fall off social media, the result is even less connection than we had before Facebook et al existed.

underlipton|10 days ago

It just keeps tumblring down, tumblring down, tumblring down. I just keep logging me out, logging me out, logging me out.

I joke, but the internet I knew as a youth going the way of the dinosaurs really has had a deep impact on me. End of an epoch.

swat535|10 days ago

Exactly.. you’d only really see them on Christmas or Easter.. Maybe some special event like Wedding.

Once in a while they would come over but that was it. You never knew what your uncle had for lunch.