That's what's so great about animals. Your dog doesn't care if he's famous for doing something stupid in a viral video, but your child will hate you forever!

Nobody wants to see that!

Very true. Some people genuinely don't believe something happened if you don't post it and brag about it. I had that situation with people convincing me that I didn't accomplish something just because they didn't see photos on social networks and therefore concluded beyond any doubt that the event never occured. The paper proof was not sufficient.

I will never want any smart kitchen thingys. Basically anything connected to the internet can be taken over by a skilled hacker

I don't think that it's related to one generation. I know very old people, old, middle aged, young, teenagers that only check once or twice a day. And other people from different ages who are always wanting to answer or write immediately. For example, my father and my mother do opposite, and my two sisters, too.

It's such an immature way of thinking to conflate disagree with hate. You see it with preschoolers. You can hate the opinion and still like the person (you can also agree with the opinion and hate the person, but that's a different thing).

As an activist, I can say that social media has changed a lot of things in visibility, meeting people and communication of filmed things that were hidden before. There're also good things.

I consider it acceptable to look stuff on your phone if someone has a question that can be answered with a quick check, but that's IT. No texting, no facebook, no ignoring your dinner companions.

I don't want to listen to my neighbour's screaming kids either, so I turn up de volume.

Those playgrounds are still the norm in Germany, thank God. American parents regularly freak ;)

If you do touch typing, you NEED a physical keyboard.

I'm not a fan of the Beatles (unpopular opinion, but I had to listen and study a lot of their music during my A Levels and my satiation point was reached a long time ago), but I actually miss the days when lyrics really were as innocent as "I wanna hold your hand".

Also, new power adapters with EVERYTHING, without even asking, so all those lovely polluting circuit boards inside end up in landfill!

Why not if you are tired

Exactly. And hosing down a child covered in mud in the garden is not child abuse Dr Phill. I don't have kids, which is probably best.

I follow subs on tiktok that are informational the animal videos and some comedic ones and people that make miniatures some cooking ones that are aged 35-to i think the oldest man I follow is in his 80s. I don't ever see anyone dancing or any of the people that are considered famous

Depends on what you let them do with it. My son has an iPad but it is severely restricted. He can’t get to anything but the bbc bitsize website and only has access to the educational apps. At 6.30 in the evening it locks out until 7am the next day.

Context and intent are everything.

This picture is so funny and the people look so ridiculous.

The generation before boomers said the same thing about telephones because how many teenagers waited around the house waiting for their bf/gf to call.

I generally agree, but it depends on what's standard for your group of friends. For casual get-togethers at my house, my good friends always show up 15 minutes late. That's because they know I'm running around trying to make everything perfect right up to the last minute, and that 15 minutes gives me a chance to sit down and relax for a moment. On the other hand, we invited a couple for dinner a few weeks ago, and they were more than an hour late (with no text, phone call, or apology). I was really annoyed, but they apparently thought it was pretty standard practice. Maybe in their circle of friends it is.

Yes

Then no more gifts period

I think it should be a bit shorter

Unrecognizable is ok. You don't want their faces picked up by creeps and used in videos. And yes, that happens.

My gaming pc is 12 years old and still works fine. I upgraded my iPhone a couple of years ago. Went from a 6 to a XS.

My laptop and my phone were given to me when I retired along with some other laptops that were written off. All laptops have an Intel i7, 8GB memory and a 500GB SSD. So I'm fine for the next decade or 2.

My car is 16 years old and my laptop is 8. I'm always mystified when I see a younger person with the latest everything, designer bags and shoes, drinking their $8 unicorn drink, posting on IG while taking their 'dream' vacation, and then they complain that they'll never be able to afford a house. That it's all someone else's fault that they can't afford it.

Not most people, young middle class people maybe.

I had my last phone for seven years! There was no need to replace or upgrade until it got old enough it was slow and buggy. I don't 'upgrade' unless it's necessary, no matter what the item.

"most people' LMAO. You need to widen the circle of people that you have any interaction with

I have a cell phone that is fifteen years old. The only thing I do with it is charge it. I never carry it. If I go somewhere I don't worry, everyone has one.

I've had the same phone for close to 5 years. It serves a purpose. Besides the telecoms here are making you pay monthly now for the hardware. Until mine dies, I am not buying one for the sake of upgrading

Maybe last year's will but my 3 year old phone is not capable of downloading some apps I need. And just try and get a new case for it. Planned obsolescence by tech companies is behind some of this upgrading.

I had my last computer for ten years my current on is about three year old but will be with me for a few more years.

“Most people”? Not in my world.

My phone turns 5 in October. The only thing" wrong" with it is, I have too many photos so it has low memory. 😂

I buy a new phone every 3/4 years. My SO buys one every year. He couldn't believe I spend $400 on my phone (which is cheap in comparison to $600+) versus his $100 version. I told him we are spending the same amount of $$. My phone worked fine. It was a memory/performance issue at this point. He buys a cheap phone because they usually get damaged at work. My phone isn't subjected to that - it lasts longer. I don't 'game' so I don't needs a laptop for that type of thing. I have one but for work related issues and I prefer to view things on a larger screen - no a phone. I don't need an ipad either.

My iPhone 7 has a cracked screen and still works like a charm.

I never understood that to be honest.

I got my current gaming pc like 3 or 4 years back, still performing amazingly no need to upgrade, my phone though I needed to get a new one because the old one may have slightly met the floor after falling off my balcony and shattering into an unrepairable state

Trouble is, a lot of electronics don't last the distance. My phone is already playing up and is only a couple of years old

Ummmm scuse you. I went five years between buying phones thank you. And the iPad I have is a 2nd gen mini that barely chugs along but still works. I've kept laptops until they have literally fallen apart. So back up bucko.

This comment has been deleted.

One of the few good things to come out of the covid pandemic was that it forced us to examine necessity vs. luxury. It's amazing how much less money you need to make when you're not spending on restaurants, bars, gasoline, concert and movie tickets, vacations, weddings, and multiple types of wardrobes for different occasions. I think it made a lot of people realize they have more options than they realized, in terms of balancing their overall happiness with their need to earn a living.

I still have an 8+. It works just fine so I don’t see the need.

More runaway capitalism, Which also is exploding some Third World country for their slave labor

Ah, stop complaining. This way, I buy good stuff cheap, because it's 5 years old.

I still have an iPhone 6. Handed down by my mother. First used by my Aunt. I’m perfectly satisfied with this

I think complaining about society being too materialistic has been going on for millennia now. It's almost as if it always was this way.

I used my old s5 Samsung for 6 years (my mum used it for 2,so 8 years in total) until the screen fell off. I mean that literally. Now I'm typing this on a Samsung A21s.

this is a minority of people

https://youtu.be/Qk1i7UGBz1Q

I bloody love my flannels!

"Kids need to play outside more." Society proceeds to make the outside dangerous or illegal to be. "Kids and their stupid phones ..."

Yes! I grew up before channel 5 and usually something to watch, but with 600+ channels of sky TV I'm often stuck because it's all trash or repeats.