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Re:Beeper – Moving Forward by mattgreenrocks on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:29PM (#38724544)
People are so weird: it used to be that using the Internet a lot was seen as anti-social, now everyone's addicted to phones and if your message bubbles aren't the right color you're the weird one. It's just a stupid chat app.

It's completely awful we're strong-armed into having 6 different chat clients that send text messages because of gate-keeping. Chat has been fully commoditized since about 2000 or so.

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Re:Beeper – Moving Forward by PrimeMcFly on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:33PM (#38724641)
> it used to be that using the Internet a lot was seen as anti-social, now everyone's addicted to phonesv

This is so true, I think about this a lot sometimes. As someone growing up in the 90s who was considered weird for finding the internet amazing, I'm online substantially less than many of those people who made a big deal about it back then.

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