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I think our childhood was definitely better before social media and cellphones.
I think so too, I would actually love to ditch my cellphone
Much better without social media!!
Yes absolutely 💯
Agreed
Absolutely
I'm 53 and I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. I learned so much. We are the "unsupervised" generation and every day was an adventure. We built things to enjoy then reassemble into something else. We learned pain eventually fades but the memories and scars do not. My husband and I have been married 35 years now and I bet we've hired a "professional" less than 5 times. We know we can do anything we set our minds to. That is something these kids will never understand. What everyone calls preppers, we call life.
So glad that there were NO cell phones or internet when I was a kid. Happy New Year Jack and Tribe.
I'm 61 and have repeated told my kids over the years that this is NOT the same country it once was. I wouldn't dream of doing the things I did as a youngster. Instead I'm teaching my kids situational awareness and not to walk around with head phones in all the time. I've seen enough and learned enough in my 30yrs of service to be concerned enough to train and help all family and friends as much as I can learn the skills to survive...or least a good start. To coin a phrase, stay frosty friends, nothing good can come from wide open borders.
Definitely better back in the day. I grew up on a farm. Rode my bicycle for miles. Ate fruit straight from the trees. Always had a garden. Life is actually better when you have to work through adversity.
Same for me too. Life was much better.
I am 70 and love the info that I can access on the web and the convenience of connecting with family & friends on social media. My childhood was free of the web & social media and I am glad of that. I am very concerned about being fed biased/false info and increased censorship by big tech and our gov't. There is a lot of wickedness out there and you have to be careful about that. .
I had a baseball glove bat some of my dad's camo and a bear recurve bow.
I had a pitch of woods behind my house I spent looking for the holy Grail...a deer.
The skills I learned I still use today 55 years later.
I would never trade that for anything
I agree
In my head I can still hear the call, “Meet ya at the 3rd tree!” It was a huge maple where 6 kids sometimes 7 met and planned the entire day. Riding our bikes down the lane. Passing the cow pasture. Exploring the dirt roads in the nurseries. Pulling splinters out of my brother and sisters hands which earned me the title “Splinter girl!” Hiding under huge hostas. It was great. In the winter we sledded behind our house on a huge hill. Such a wonder we didn’t get frost bite. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Todays kids have been cheated but they don’t even know it. Happy NY!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you and your family, Jack...and to answer your question, we will never be able to reclaim the innocence we've lost...
HANDS DOWN... NO ELECTRONICS NECESSARY. COMMUNICATION WAS BETTER AND LIFE WAS A JOY!!
Knowing what I know now, I think I was well served not having access to social media as a non adult. The easy access to information yes, social media programming NO. Semper Fi and have a great new year
Happier without but yet the Tech world is a big help in some ways. I love being able to google a recipe or if a food is dangerous for my dog and I have learned so much about prepping online. and nice to talk to others who do so too. Having that ablity at my fingertips is so nice and comforting. If there was a way to have not added so much awful crap on the internet it would be so much better for all. Happy New Year!
It was definitely better without, less chance of misinformation ect. But the educational tool we need.
I'm 76 year old US Army veteran. I was born 1947. We didn't get a television until 1954. There was an old couple a few blocks away who had a TV, and all of the kids in the neighborhood went to their house to watch Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Wild Bill Hickok and Superman for 2 hours on Monday nights. We played outside until the street lights turned on. We had a party line phone, which you could use if no one in the neighborhood was on the line. But you could listen in. Life was way better. I had a radio in my room in the attic which was really nice. I could go on for a week. One more big thing at ten years old I had a 22 rifle which I walked to the woods and hunted grouse, mostly head shots, just braggin'.
Born in 1960. I thought about this for a few, and haven't had a drink yet. lol
I'm glad we didn't have cell phones back then. Or internet. It made us go to the library and look up information. Our big expense was encyclopedias. Probably cheaper than a year or two of internet.
Our phone bill was less than $10 a month. I can't imagine what a cell phone bill for the family would have looked like.
No cable TV. I don't have cable even today, due to the expense and no return on the money. I had Direct TV for my kids youth, but as soon as they stopped watching TV, had it disconnected.
At the supper table, we weren't allowed to have the TV turned on. Had to excuse ourselves before leaving. Pitched in to clean up after supper.
I still change my oil and filters, brake shoes and do other repairs on our vehicles. Thats what we did growing up.
Not much got thrown away. My grandparents lived during The Depression. They saved everything, from tin can lids, to rusty nails.
I’m 41 and glad I grew up in a world without these devices… but I’m glad I’m able to use these devices now. Because now I understand how powerful of a brainwashing tool that television was/is… but this tablet has allowed me to access so much information so conveniently, that I think that it broke me of the matrix brainwashing of my younger years. I do not watch television anymore… but I am subscribed to over 4000 channels across multiple platforms (like Rumble). I’ve been exposed to thousands of different people and their ideas… and I watch your videos almost every day- so take that as a compliment. “Stay frosty, stay strapped, and stay dangerous.” 😎💪🏻
Better or worse, it's hard to say. I do know that if I had the power to go back and change things, I would leave them just as they were. We just play the cards as they are dealt. Thanks, Jack. Happy New Year.
You sound like an educated person. Very rare❤❤❤
100% convinced it was a better quality of life the thought had crossed my mind more than a few times. With one note taken i can mainly reference my own experiences, allegedly.
Good Question!!
Thanks again Jack nicely posted brother and for an easy way to bring the conversation to light, by just playing it around another.
Happy New Year to all.
Love you guys stay safe
Happy New Year!
The only problem I have with kids keeping up with technology vs. being outside in nature, is their surroundings may noy be safe enough to go outside much. It's also important for kids to have experience with everything their peers might have done. That way, they can have relative conversations and interactions too. It doesn't matter if they're home schooled or not. Kids need to be able to relate and survive the world we live in, not just what only exists in the home. I'm reminded of an old movie...Twins.
Happy New Year Sir and thank you for a year of wisdom and guidance.
I’m 60 years old and loved, playing outside, laying on the grass and looking at the clouds, making different cloud animals. Had to come in the house when the street lights came on could walk to 7-Eleven with my little sisters are and the only way you could talk on the phone in private, was to take it into the closet and shut the door, if the extension would reach the closet. We watched only three channels on TV and my dad would ask one of us kids to get up and change the channel. Snail mail was oh I knew growing up. When I was in the army, we only got five minutes on the phone once a month to call home. Sometimes we would have to wait in line to get a chance to use the phone. It would have been nice for computers and cell phones, but I have found that they have cause more problems than good, happy new year everyone. Jack, thank you for all you do and for your service.
I'm grateful to have grown up in the 70's and 80's. Building Forts, making ramps, using my imagination, being outside most days riding dirt bikes, and being free. Happy New Year Jack and Tribe!! What's in store for 2024? Pray to God not Nuclear War. Enter at your own risk no one is coming to save you. You are your own protector. Stay Strapped, Stay Frosty and Stay dangerous.
Jack, Happy New Year. In answer to your question, HELL NO, I'm grateful we didn't have cell phones, social media or any of that other b.s. At 51 years old, I can definitely say I grew up in the best of times. Miss the 80s.
Honestly, I think it was better without all of the intrusive devices. I was one of the first people on the internet, my father having been DOD/DISA, and gave me one of his codes to access "the internet," the govt was "allowing." It was great in the beginning, but it was fresh, new, no rules, etc. I, also, still would go to my grandfather's farm, go hiking, hunting, shooting. I'd give anything to go to pre-internet or have not had the net come into our lives, given what later happened, along with the controls... Anyway, Jack, Happy New Year's Celebration! I feel 2024 is gonna be a bumpy ride...
My friend, I was a Army RANGER
Got out in '83'. I'd love to go back to the dayys before cell phones and computers and all that stuff.
Some things were harder. But it was a simpler, easier way of life. Of course we'd have to have the monetary value of the days back then.
Happy New Year
Best wishes for a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Safe New Year!!
I am 79 years old and wish we could go back to the 1950's. What is going on nowadays is what comes out of the back side of any animal
Agreed! 👍
I loved growing up in the woods! I learned survival skills from the gate. Dad was Police Chief and in the Coast Gaurd, we got Marines, I’m Navy. Also Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts for my brothers! It was the best! We kids built a sturdy trapper shack before we were teens!
I miss the good ole days with no internet hanging out with friemds, walking and talking, listening to live music outside in the park, playing games outside, socializing with friends in groups, alone, at the park etc. We had no inerruptions. If I needed to phone home, I would need to locate the nearest telephone booth and reverse the call to mom to let here know where I was and when I could be home. We had lots of parties, dances and hangouts at friends homes, with no phone or internet . We used our imaginations, we created things to do. The only thing I wish I had growing up with "Word", instead of having to physicaly type on a typewriter, my school papers!
Everything was better without the tech. I miss them not even being thought of. Bit of prophecy in this one. Good short man.
Yes, growing up without cell phones and social media was so much better. However, I would also add it was much better without video games also. Life was great as a kid when we were sent outside to play and we wanted to be outside because the house without A/C was really hot. I cherish memories of all the neighborhood kids' bikes piled up outside the houses.
Who was better. I'm 61 years old and I remember rotary😊 we thought it was a big deal to have push button and a very long cord so that my mother can chase us kids and make dinner and talk on the phone at the same time. We were taught to answer the phone with politeness. And I remember when someone got a answering machine, they acted like a big shot what's self-importance😊
Way better when I was a kid WITHOUT them. In the 70's I was outside playing a lot. Every day. There was no video games in the early 70's or smart anything back then. No home computers. Heck, even TVs were only a home staple for about 20 or so years back then. Watching cartoons and having cookies was about the only thing that kept me inside the house back then. All your friends were doing the same and they were way better socially adjusted than today's youth.
We definitely had a better childhood than the kids today that hardly ever go outside anymore because of their iPads, phones, PlayStations & Xbox’s !! We had lots of real friends not the on-line fake ones!! It’s So Sad !! Much Love & Blessings to you all 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️
Happy 2024 brother Jack and tribe 🥃🙌🏻🇺🇸. May the winds keep blowing in our favor into and throughout the year. 🔥😗💨
Happy New Year! 🥃🥃
Ohh absolutely 100% better as a youth. I loved not having to come home until the streetlights came on. Playing basketball, baseball, football with friends. Doing dumb shit like backyard wrestling on my buddies trampoline. Riding bikes to the creek 10 miles away to fish and swim. Pulling tubes behind 4-wheelers after it snowed. Kids nowadays have no idea what they are missing out on being glued to video games and social media. If I'm ever lucky enough to have a kid, I'll be 41 this year, they will learn to enjoy the good life.
I was born in 1956, life was much simpler growing up back when I did. We didn’t even have calculators, let alone computers or cell phones. No microwaves, 5 cent candy bars, 15 cent sodas.
Absolutely. I treasure the hikes, the baseball games, the parties... I'm thankful we didn't have all that technology then. The music was better, people were better, everything was better. Stay blessed, stay safe.
Jack I grew up in a log cabin without electricity and running water. I can remember going to our spring and raking the leaves off of it and getting buckets of water everyday. That was in the 60s. Today I have a cell phone and a computer. My cell phone I use as a telephone and nothing else. My cell phone is a new one and my daughter tells me I can do a lot of things with it but it still is just a phone to me and I don't carry it everywhere. Half the time I forget to charge it. Your question is not an easy question to answer because there are pluses and minus to the technology we have today versus what we had yesterday. Could I easily live without all the electronics we have today? Sure I can and probably be just as happy as I am now. But then I would not know people like yourself existed in this world short of my time in the Marines. I think there is a lot of negativity that goes with the technology we have today as this technology makes it easier for certain parties to herd the sheep as they see fit with propaganda. The technology also has its advantages as well as the negatives. I have been married twenty years now. I met my wife on the computer back when 30mb was a very large hard drive. We would have never met without the technology we have today. I think it all boils down to what this technology is used for. I think like many things we create to make our lives a little better this technology is being abused heavily to where many folks are relying on it as part of their lives. It tends to make people lazy. Facebook is a good example of technology being abused. I got banned without even a chance to appeal because they said I was, I quote, "an extreme danger to their society". Yet I never posted any negativity whatsoever on Facebook. That tells me they were spying on other places I posted such as your podcast. Regardless, I could care less as I don't use places like that to express my true thoughts on Facebook or anyplace like that. I generally speak face to face or on sites like yours. With that said, this is the kind of abuse this technology gets. Today I enjoy the fact that I can learn new things on the internet and indeed even make my living. But I had my own business before there was internet and such. For me the technology we have today is a convenience that can make some things easier. It does not make me happier. Could I live without it, yes. Today we structure our lives around the technology we have. If we did not have it, we would just have to restructure our lives as we did before it came along. For me, lol I still can't understand people walking up the street with their heads bowed down looking at their phones everywhere they go. Technology is just a convenience and that is all as far as I am concerned. Thanks Jack, Semper Fi.
Definitely better without them. Connecting to the real world keeps you grounded. Also harder to gaslight you when you can see your surroundings aren't as bad as they claim. Happy new year
Better with/out social media. In school you only had to worry about a couple of hundred kids giving you a hard time. But now with SM they have thousands to millions of people harassing them. And when we were younger we only had to make a few friends happy, not the whole world.
Growing up in the 70’s & 80’s was sooo much nicer w/o cell phones. Life seemed a slower pace. You just had the house phone, TV, maybe an Atari. Went outside to go see and talk with friends. Just simpler times. Well missed!
Happy New Year Black Scout!! Love your videos! As far as your question in my opinion- social media is pretty much a good/bad thing. Yes, it's a very good tool for keeping in touch with friends, family and like-minded people across the globe. But then it's also a bad thing because with 98% of the people/kids of today-all's we see are them with their noses planted in their phones no matter what or where they're at. ZERO situational awareness while walking, driving, even skateboarding or riding their bicycles! Then throw in all of the propaganda, censoring, tracking people's posts, what they're searching for or looking at-all not good. We've said this a hundred times that WHEN the entire grid goes down-BILLIONS of people of all ages simply will not know how to function without their phones or social media at their fingertips!
Better w/out, but tech has allowed us to listen to wise, reasonable men like yoursel, PrepperNow andThe Crisis Report.
Happy New Years everyone
The only upside I can see for having social media back in the day as a Gen X'er would be to have been able to keep track of friends that I lost contact with and never was able to locate them again. Everything else like having everything about your life online would be a negative.
Jack, without a doubt, life was much better with out the tech. And I am very concerned about AI because I believe that it will change our lives so fast that it will cause chaos, pain and suffering the likes of which we as a species has never known, faster than we've ever experienced other than from "natural" disaster. It will be global and intrusive.
Happy New Year!! 🥃🥃
I agree with everything you said. AI will probably be our demise.
I'm glad I was born in 1975..Back in those days things were alot different. I would never trade all the things I learned even though it was hard to find book facts. I just can't wait til I can teach my grandkids a little of the old ways. My kids are grown and all 4 of them graduated. And they are all alike but different in their own ways. Happy new year to you all. And hope it's a great year for everyone. 👍
im 66 and didn't have a cell phone until i deployed. life was so easy then. my oldest (39) didn't have a cellphone until she was 17. we did have a computer in the house around 94 or so, but it was only used by me to do work from home. there are positives to our connections today, but there are far more negatives. have a great new year!
Social media makes it hard on parents because our children have access to so much and it opens Pandora’s box. It take a away their innocence, distracts them, and causes insecurities. It’s a portal opened up to all kinds of evil and parents can’t always monitor and filter what they are being exposed to. I miss the good old days!!!
I am 53, I enjoyed my childhood immensely. I learn to hunt fish, build fires, and many other things that have come in handy throughout my adulthood. I had an Atari 2600 and a house phone, life was great.
68 years old and lived a much better life than my grandkids live. As a probation officer our juvenile detention home was packed in the 70's. The only difference now is the Internet that broadcasts everything.
Sort of wish we had the ability to capture digital photo and video when I was growing up. There are times I wish I had pictures and video of old Grade School and High School friends, especially those who are no longer around. That is one blessing that kids now a days have, easy memories. Of course I do believe there are so many downsides to the current tech, cellphones, social media etc, that I am glad I grew up when I did.
I have been teaching for 33 years. I got my first cell phone in 1998. Society-wise, things have gone downhill ever since cell phones and the internet became widely available. My students are provided with Chromebooks to use in c lass. I prefer to use REAL textbooks as much as is practical to do.
Happier without! I lived life then like I do now, actively engaged. Most kids/teens live life vicariously through others because of device's and social media. My daughters didn't have phones until they could buy one and maintain the coverage. They also know how to live!
That’s awesome! I hope they appreciate it down the road.
I'm glad we didn't have so much trash out there as we do now.
Gave reporters time to develop firmer details on a breaking story.
I grew up right before internet and cell phones were the norm, I couldn't be happier for that. Happy New Year to all, and be safe
Growing up in the 60's and 70's was the best. Back then our small town had a little store ( like most) we could get a Soda pop and a SlimJim and all the candy ya could eat for a $1. I Would not trade that for all the tech in the world. And not to mention the freedom of being able to run the woods with a gun slung over your shoulder and not a word said.
100% better before the cell phone/social media. We had to go outside and interact with other people. We had to learn how to play in groups (training for the work environment later in life). We were getting exercise, even though we didn’t know that’s what we were doing. And when we did stupid shit, as all kids do, we didn’t have to worry about it getting filmed and put up on social media to prove your “guilt” beyond any possible doubt.
I graduated HS in 1978 and college in 1983. Never owned a computer during that period. We did just fine without those things. I feel more secure knowing I don't need a cell phone or a computer to function.
Jack, good question.
I loved that I was allowed to be a kid pre-smart devices and social media. Back then things were simpler because we didn't have all these distractions. We socialized face to face rather than typing on a small screen not seeing their faces nor hearing their voices. Despite all childhood issues, we were allowed to be children.
Today, it's an uphill battle trying to keep children innocent for as long as possible. We have 5 children, boys from 18-13, our daughter is 10.
We have a rule in our family. Nobody gets a mobile phone of their own until they turn 16. Tablets and laptops are under parental discretion. The only time any of the children gets to use a mobile phone is when they travel or sleepover in someone's home.
It helps that we are homeschooling our children and they're not getting the peer pressure from school.
Happy New Year Jack!
I wouldn't be who I am today if if I had all this technology. I value old fashioned time spent together without technology and cell phones social media. I think there needs to be a definite break for it all to acknowledge the world around us. Living in the moments and memories to store them moments and memorable times in our brains and hearts. Sometimes social media takes that from us all. But I completely agree with the internet and social media bein helpful in ways too. Thank you for asking this question Jack. Signed TJ from Missouri 🇺🇲👊
We were way more sheltered when I was growing up. I had a carefree childhood. I don’t regret not having been exposed to any of the things we have now! Internet has great benefits and I like it, but we’re monitored all the time, which is very intrusive!
Childhood without the internet, cell phones and social media was definitely better.
Happy New Year everyone.
68 years old, my childhood was fabulous!!!!!
I’m 24 years old, going to be 25 this year and I think my specific age group had it best with the emerging electronics and outdoor emphasis being shown to us as we started to grow up, my younger cousins now with all the advanced electronics don’t even want to go climb a tree and scream when a moth gets too close to them 😢. I hope things will change and not have total reliance on electronics. Kids don’t even get taught cursive in school anymore
Never had anything but a B & W tv, an a small radio growing up. An we got along fine, didn't watch much tv at all as a teen, because we worked, had to make money in my day an age. Now that I'm 65 an retired, I do enjoy how easy it is to access information an you tube vids an movies on my tablet, so there are tradeoffs to everything.
I love that I got to experience both. Makes appreciating the Internet much better.
I definitely think life was better without all the tech stuff growing up! We played in the woods, the creeks, hunting n fishing, rode our bicycles everywhere! Played tag with the other neighborhood kids. We had a blast! If we needed to research something, we got out the ole encyclopedias! And I was only allowed 15 minutes on the dial up phone at a time. Lol. Now as for the new tech?, it does have some good points. It's easy to look up info at your fingertips. But there's also alot of bad stuff on internet. I dont like that. Its a bad influence on these younger generations. Sad. Overall, i think I prefer the old days. Much simpler and happier.👍😊
Happy New Year Jack and everyone!🎉🎊🥂😊 Staying frosty, strapped and always dangerous! God Bless. 👍🙏✝️🙏🇺🇸😊❤
My wife and I have talked about this many times, and we both agree that we would be better off without technology of cell phones. They have destroyed marriages, and there is no true family time anymore. Just look at EVERY family in a restaurant. 95% of them sit at a table and never speak because their faces are stuck in their phones. It’s sad.
My grandchildren will not have phones at a young age. PERIOD!!!
BSS. I was gonna pour my gourmet gin. Then after hearing you mention what you were partaking in I remembered my small batch aged straight rye. Down the hatch!! Cheers!! I think life was less complicated pre-Atari. Playing tag, making models(just going to the hobby store), HO electric trains, aurora race cars, dart guns and when we got really bored - paper clips and rubber bands. How we never lost an eye. Thank God.
I'm 46.. When I was in high school, dial up was becoming a thing. I enjoyed my childhood and wish my child could experience it the way that I did. I also like having the internet.. Though not necessarily the (anti)social media aspect of it. I did do a lot of chat room hanging out in my years after high school, as that's when they sprung up.. But overall, I'd take my childhood the way it was over the shit we're going through now. It was just a different time. People were more respectful, even in the big city of Sacramento, CA back then. I miss the 'simpler' times.
Social media was the nail in the coffin for the US. Childhoods have been ruined by it. IT has been a blessing and curse. But then again, maybe it's just something that will thin the herd over time. It will just take a handfull more generations to get the job done.
I just turned 50 on the 28th, growing up in the late 70’s, 80’s it was a better time, social media has its pointS but there is far more bad than good, the constant news cycle 24/7 that keeps people turned up to 10, that’s bad for you, nobody can unwind anymore, it’s always the next bad thing that’s coming for you, and social media has made it to where kids have zero courtesy or manners anymore and not to paint one group with a wide brush, but most females now between 19-40 get on social media just shake their asses at the camerA with no self respect, so I’d gladly go back to how it was
Im an 80s kid, and as such can say hands down that pre social media was absolutely amazing compared to now.
People were not over politicized and absolutely rabid in their convictions. They did not have the more aggressively govt controlled media steering and fabricating various narrative or influencers stirring one side against the other.
It encouraged critical thought and people were infinitely more tolerable to conflicting opinions.
Even in the 90s when all that started changing via celebrity intervention and the internet chatrooms increasing awareness as well as facilitating speed of information dissemination..things were still relatively normal.
Things absolutely changed when smartphones rolled out and soon after people had devices in their hands which began pushing ideologies, narratives and poltucal agendas at an accelerated rate.
Combine this with obamas race baiting with the trayvon martin situation and there you had the beginning of serious problems. The treatment of that one incident was the catalyst for the crap we see now. It was played masterfully. Just as we have been, and noone seems willing or able to see this and wake up.
At 67 I can say that life as a kid was great without the internet.
However I can also say that I started using the internet in 2000 and it has changed how and what I think based on access to information, prior to the mass censorship of today.
I think all inventions have good and bad, the duality of everything in this world is a constant. In saying that, I'm glad I did not have all of this tech when I was growing up, I would not be the outdoorsman or have the love for nature that I do today if I was wrapped up in a cellphone or video game. I am however glad I have this technology as an adult as the information, knowledge and ease of connection to others, not only locally but globally, is absolutely fantastic. The ease of learning with what we have today is unparalleled, used properly.
We don't even know what the true consequences and the effects of the internet is going to have on society we are only seeing the short-term at the moment. Yes growing up in the 80's was better but better is a relative term. Im sure our parents would say that the 50's and 60's were better. I'm so glad that smart phones and social media wasn't around then. I miss the days of everyone sitting around the table with family eating and talking about our day. It's disgusting and scary that pornography is literally so easily at the fingertips of children and parents who don't care what there child watches it's downright dangerous. Happy new year.
Much better off without cell phones! When i go out i see 90% of people on their phones, even when sitting with friends, family etc. Losing the real communication face to face..
I'm in cyber security...penetration testing...and nothing would make me happier than a massive EMP to take us back to the stone age.
We'd find out pretty quickly who the real survivors are.
There's a great quote from the band smash mouth, "are brains are getting stronger but are heads are getting dumb". When I grew up we may not have been as smart, technically, but we sure knew how to use are hands and skills better.
Born in 81. Life was wayyyy better before the internet and cellphones. I didn't know anyone who had the internet in their home until I was at least 17. To me the internet is likened to the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, I dont think it's a coincidence that one the first computers, Macintosh had a symbol of a apple with a bite out of it.
Definitely better when I was a kid 40 years ago I was just walking down my street with my 9 year old daughter each dribbling a basketball getting out the house. And one lil girl ask another girl why are we walking down the street bouncing a ball. I told my daughter to stay focused on her getting better and that the other girl wasn’t thinking about getting better by practicing something like how to dribble a basketball. My daughter was shocked when she said that because she thought the lil girl knew what a basketball was. But she didn’t know what it was because she always inside on her tablet or phone and not outside hunting, fishing or playing ball games like my daughter does and like we did as kids. You also want your kids to be kids as long as possible because you’re only a kid one time folks. Remember that. Anyways HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.. 💪🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸
Absolutely 💯 % everything is far better without social media and cell phones. Look at footage from the 50s and 60s in a city and people are smiling making eye contact with open body language compared to staring at the ground...Happy new year everyone 🎉 new year new me f..k
2023 time to set myself free 🤙🏻
That you for your leadership of our nation. God bless you! Steady Eddie Spaghetti 🙏🙏🙏
I was borned in 1966. Growing up back then was much better than now days. People had to get off their asses and do and find out shit for themselves. People weren't lazy. Back then everyone looking forward to getting a DL. Kids these days don't want a DL. Neighbor has 2 boys 18 and 16. Don't drive...Won't drive. We had good ol fist fights. Now you eat lead over the dumbest shit. 10 cent pay phones everywhere worked just fine. V8 cars ruled the road.
I actually DO wish I had many of today's tech stuff and lotsa devices and the internet when I was a young'n. It's amazing to do research without lugging around heavy tomes and just read... I can now watch videos, listen to those same books, quickly find instructions etc.
Loved being in the woods hunting fishing trapping wouldn’t trade it for the world
I had a younger brother and a neighborhood kid or two to play with outside, so in that way it was way better.
I think for kids who are more to themselves or only children or don't live in a great neighborhood or have any friends nearby they can meet up outside or even don't live in an area where they CAN be outside, the internet is great for kids like that because they can meet up with friends from school, etc.. And play online. That, I think, has kept many kids or teens from being super depressed or bored etc. I know my teen son meets up with all his friends online, the ones that don't live close especially and even if he's at his grandparents house every weekend. He still goes to the mall occasionally with his friends, or walks to the local pizza joint. But overall, they all meet up online and play in larger groups and include kids that don't live nearby. For that, it's great.
I was born in 1967. Joined the Navy in 1984 at 17. I was young, tough, aggressive but disciplined. Looking at the young people today I thank God we had none of that.
I enjoyed the outdoors and physical play as a kid without cellphones or computers . . . imagine if the power and communications are ever knocked out (which is gonna be the first thing our enemies will do to us just prior or at the beginning of a direct conflict with us) . . . sadly millions will die
As an Gen X not only was it better, but it was even less stressful at least to me and we always had ways to keep ourselves busy wether it was playing hoop, hanging out with friends, movie's,fishing, or on some hobby,ect, you know all that fun stuff and then some, that now seems rare now aday's, and I refuse to let technology dictate or ruin my life!
I was raised in rural Appalachia very isolated from the world. I would have loved the access to information but I wouldn’t change the mountains, creeks, friends I grew up with. I fear not letting my boys have technology will put them at a disadvantage to their peers.
Back to the way it was in the 60s & 70s, for me and the KIDS ! Happy New Year. TAKE CARE..
I was raised with no TV, internet, and phone service. I know that I'm older and we didn't have internet and cell phones back then. We had one phone in the house upon a wall. It was a party line also for the younger people on here. We started out with only 3 digit numbers. We had to use our own brains to come up with something to play. Children nowadays have to have a phone. I'm not sure how they do it but they go in and get food stamps but still has a very nice cell phone. They are spoiled rotten. I believe that is why they get into so much trouble. We worked after school. We didn't have time to cause trouble. I'm on a rant, and I'm sorry. Kids today can't get by in life because they have so much given to them. I could go on, but I won't.
I was born in 1961 and spent most of my free time outside playing, riding my bike and playing sports. I guess I never knew how lucky I was being born in the 1960's and growing up in that time. All the media is lying to us about everything so why would you want TV, internet and cellphone. Having said that I have a 93 year old Dad so the cell phone comes in handy when contacting my siblings about him.
I honestly am glad that I did not have certain technology. I got a basic flip phone while in middle school for emergency purposes only. I was happy more to be outside during the summer, hunting, hiking, mountain biking. Had a mountain for a backyard that I could escape to and test my abilities
We should've stopped at flip phones, but these phones have opened our eyes to things that we might've still been blinded to. Back in the 80's and 90's we had people to see, places to be and things to do.
56-yr old “latchkey kid” !!! Ohhhh hell no I’m glad that we didn’t have any of this crap back then , heck having to ride my bike back home to check in every two hours sucked but then again we could be gone from dawn till the streetlights came on unsupervised ! That was growing up on the south side of Chicago.
Childhood was a 1000% better before social media and cell phones. Miss the good old days 😇
Good and bad for both options for as the great Thomas Sowell said, "There are no solutions in life. Only trade-offs."
Cell phones have a huge limiting factor on communication. Most do not use them to talk to others with but to text. Texts are too short to convey meaning and often the other parties interject meaning that isn't there or can't keep up with the conversation.
Cell phones have been a key factor in the death of effective communication. And subsequently an increase in hostility amongst people because of it.
I'm happy and blessed to have grown up with no social media and cell phones! I do wish I would have taken more pictures, though. A toast to you, sir, and all your followers!
Yes, that’s one thing I wish as well… pictures and video.