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Millennials and early Gen Z of Lemmy, what did you do for fun before phones became such a huge part of our lives? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I keep cutting out things like social media from my lifestyle, but I'm finding it hard to fill the time. Reading can only go so far, there's never anything on TV, and my friends all live twelve miles away.

So, before we really had social media, what did teenagers do?

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[–] gloating_swann 5 points 2 years ago

Listened to CDs, smoked a lot, stared at the walls, cried when appropriate. But then I'm an Xer, so...