cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/8644067
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Why do you have to be perpetually engaged with a slack chat? Especially in a volunteer group?
You can just ignore notifications. You’re not required by law to look at them asap. Slack in particular is great for configuring that. On mobile I have it set so only @here/@channel/@mes notify me, or direct messages. Otherwise I just ignore it until I want to check on things. Slack also has a built in automatic dnd so outside of business hours you won’t get notified for anything.
because if you're like 25 that's how you live your entire life and you can't accept anyone else could possibly live life another way.
and if you point out that you don't have to live your life that way, you are hateful and ignorant and -ist something or other, e.i. they just call you names.
basically folks have no emotional control and just project their crazy onto the rest of us, rather than... just not being addicted to their phones for everything.
another good example. i will leave my phone at home and go out for hours without it. i have been told by various folks that this is abusive and cruel, or otherwise totally unacceptable and wrong to do, because what if someone (themselves) has to reach me? also that like, not replying to texts/messages in a certain timeframe, is abusive, manipulative, negligent etc.
occasionally i also leave my phone accidental at home and like go to work and don't touch it for 10 hours. weird how the world doesn't implode or end when I do that. i might have a few missed calls or texts.
As usual, young people are idiots 😅 I do the same and go phone free most weekends. (Or check it like 2 times i n case someone needs me) We dont need to be addicted to our phones. These kids cannot survive 5 minutes without it and it broke their brains.
Tech is fine. Addiction is not. This coming from someone with 20+ game systems and 200 steam games lol. And like 6 PCs. Tech and learning is great. Social media billionaire funded brainrot, needs to die.
Even if you guys are right, and im inclined to agree with you, you both sound like smug assholes. Tone down the hate on young people, you were young once too and im sure you were morons just like the rest of us.
yeah i know. god forbid i like just do what i want to do and don't consider the feelings of someone who is 25 who is projecting all their anxiety and bad choices onto the rest of us and trying to normalize their hebaviours, rather than changing their own.
when I was 25 i had better to to do than lecture other people on the internet, or in real life. like hang out with my friends, my girlfriend, and working my ass off to improve my future. but i understand that for a lot of young people today, none of those are viable options in their mind, and the only option is to be insufferable and miserable towards other folks and call them names.
because god forbid you invest in yourself when you can just tear everyone else around you down to your level of misery.
and before you go 'but they have it so hard' no, the 25 year olds i'm talking about in my example make more money than I do, and yet they complain how broke they are non-stop. they also don't have student debt because they had rich parents and often they are have property their parents bought for them. and if you point that out they tell you how growing up with rich parents is a disadvantage in life and how much better poor people have it than they do. it's utterly insane.