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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I don’t own a tv” people. Not owning a TV isn’t a personality and it doesn’t even count if you still watch everything just on a computer or phone.[/quote]

Yes!  My friend has a sibling like this. She visits often so I’ve hung out multiple times.  I was impressed by the no TV thing until years later I found out she had a DvD player and then later multiple streaming services (literally like 5-6 of them)!  But, yet I must have heard 30+times over the years from her that she had no TV. I realize now why my friend was silent when this came up. [/quote]

My neighbors kids are constantly gathered at the computer monitor watching shows, but proud to "not have a television".  LOL. The other neighborhood kids tell on them because you can see it from the street. [/quote]

+3.

We've also discovered that some people younger than us (we're mid 40s but some of the parents we know through kids school are a decade younger) are very anti traditional TV but spend enormous amounts of time on screens in ways that are definitely no better than what we do.

For instance, one of these couples doesn't have a TV in their living room. They used to, but it broke and they proudly declared they "barely noticed" and chose not to replace it. If you mention a TV show around them, they'll make a great show of explaining they have not seen it because "we don't have TV."

But they watch literally hours of YouTube a day. They'll sit up in bed with a laptop watching old episodes of shows like Golden Girls (which I watched as a kid but they were too young for, and now they find kitschy and endearing) on YouTube. Which is fine, do what you want, but it's so strange to me that they don't think of this as "TV" or think it's somehow better to watch old television shows on a little screen in bed than to watch, like, an episode of Fargo on your regular TV via a streaming service. Just a strange value set that doesn't really make sense to me.[/quote]

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