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Honestly, not much. Got my first smartphone in my 20s. Been a rather useful and beneficial little tool, nice memory improvement, handy scheduler, source of all of mankinds knowledge and some entertainment as well, can be beneficial for mental health thanks to the huge amount of information in addition to thousands of different perspectives and interpretations of basically every single aspect of everything.
Not many downsides if the usage of it is controlled. Most of the downsides seem to originate from unlimited usage of it.
Nothing lol. I loved when I first got access to the internet in my early teens, the whole world opened up. Playing with friends or reading the same 20 books in the house over and over again felt very repetitive compared to even early '00s internet.
My paternal grandparents. Best adults in my life, loved them dearly, and I still didn't appreciate them as much as I should have.
Spending time with my brain and coming up with creative ways to stimulate it. Didn't have a little device to do it with. Books, writing, daydreaming, drawing, bugging my old sister but also those nice bonding moments.
Hell, I used to write essays for fun 😂
Conversations where people didn't pull out their phone to Google something neither of you could recall and the conversation just went on until hours went by and you were "ah, it was Daniel Radcliffe in that movie!" "Oh yeah!" and then you get to circle back around to it. Idk, just letting the brain naturally rejig it's own memory!
Reading. I was such a bookworm before YouTube became accessible on phones.
I would always have two books going at a time. Reading was part of my bedtime routine. Now I just fall asleep watching YouTube stuff that I'd be no worse off if I didn't watch. Except ma girl Moriah, she's influenced a lot of my art and craft projects.
My nephews and nieces were raised on YouTube and mobile games. They literally do not know how to play imagination games, they need so much coaching and direction. As kids, we were always acting out our own scenes from TV shows or just our own imaginations. We'd play at lost explorers, under the sea adventures, Captain Planet, etc. It's sad that the kids in my family just have everything fed to them by YouTube, they don't know how to imagine games like this.
Heck, we used to dig up bits of broken crockery and be so proud of this bit of random teacup we found. It's definitely an antique and not just a cup someone broke a few years ago.
My dad used to be part of a pre-internet Kate Bush mailing list... In which he would get and send real mail! To send messages, you would make however many copies and mail them to one person who had everyone else's addresses. I continue to think this is super cool and creative.
...actually that's a really good takeaway. Thank you for educating me. ..ananon person...
Let's start with everything and go from there, shall we?
I feel like you were more likely to learn things at more than a surface level. You had to learn to operate and maintain more stuff than now. It's basically discouraged with all the disposable items these days. And because you didn't have the device of all entertainment at your hands you were more likely to go just do random stuff. Have random IRL experiences. More likely to get exercise just doing shit.
How about when phones did come out and we all had to have the perfect ringtone for everyone? I must have had like 20 different ringtones and then eventually text alerts. We didn't have ten different apps sending us pings. We had call and eventually text.