• Corgana@startrek.website
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    10 months ago

    Texting addiction was a thing.

    It was? Honestly asking. Texting for me was cumbersone (T9) and .10c each (recieving too!) For my friends and I, texts were a means to an end (meeting up usually), not a place to have conversations.

    You’re not wrong about ads though, the main difference today is that many apps are engineered to be addictive.

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      10 months ago

      For teens it almost certainly was. The “no phone policy” of many American high schools was implemented long before the iPhone. And yeah, texts may have been 10c each but that wasn’t your 10c ;)