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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure if I feel exactly like you do, OP, but I find myself very nostalgic for the time before smartphones, before the time we were all connected constantly.

I try to remember what it was like to be free--to drive somewhere and no one knew where you were.  You could be anywhere!  I didn't have the same anxiety I do now about staying connected or being reachable to others.

I know there is more opportunity now and more options but I feel more constrained by modern life.  It also feels emptier to me.  "Weird" is a good word, OP, but not sure my weird is the same as yours.  [/quote]

I think smartphones are great, social media is terrible.  I don't understand, you can turn off your phone.  You can even leave it at home and drive somewhere and no one will know where you are.  I think this mostly just a factor of becoming a parent and having kids; we were super late to getting smartphones or even cell phones, but my spouse always wanted to kind of know where I was and if I would be home in time for dinner.  Now they can just use our family tracker to know rather than calling my office phone, not really any different and less disruption for me!

I think an emptier life is partly just middle age; I mean middle age crisis, elder loneliness have been around for decades.  Old folks don't live near family as much anymore, as kids are much more mobile and multi-generational households are not the norm.   Friends move away or drift apart or are harder to make than when you lived where you grew up or where you went to college.[/quote]

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