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Read the article, just a bunch of morons who have zero self control.
Just this alone shows they have no idea what the 90s were like.
"Waaah my phone does too much, I just want an iPod!"
Delete social media, download Spotify and boom, your phone is an iPod again. Or turn off all notifications on your phone and buy one of those iPod clones.
"Gen Z" acting like the world was better before social media but they have no idea how to function without social media. If they went in the theoretical time machine back to the 90s they'd have a mental breakdown trying to find their way to the local McDonald's.
Yeah, I don't know why everyone in this thread is bitching. You can go back to that lifestyle anytime you want. Delete tiktok/facebook/messaging app/whatevs on phone. Put music on it. Only call people. It's really easy to NOT have subscriptions to everything.
You can just not subscribe. I don't have any tech subscriptions at all, other than just my internet company and my phone plan (which is the cheapest phone plan). That's it. If I try something and it looks cool, then I see I'd have to "subscribe," then I just delete and move on.
It ain't that fucking hard. From the whining from babies in this thread, you all couldn't have fucking handled the 90's. LMAO
I really don't get it either. Like it's some impossible task to just stop using certain apps or some shit.
I don't use social media(except Lemmy, I guess, if you count that(I don't)). The only notifications I get on my phone are from texts. I haven't touched Tiktok since 2019. I don't scroll YouTube shorts 24/7.
Everyone's acting like this is some drug or addiction. And maybe it is to some, but again it goes right back to self control.
so much this