Life before the Smartphone
Just some thoughts on how life was not so long ago - do you remember it? And how did it feel?
beyond close friends + family, we didn’t believe anyone cared what we thought or did, and vice versa
we had the luxury of having an interesting thought without feeling the urge to share it
there were billions of people out there doing stuff we were totally oblivious to
we never had to spend a minute thinking about engagement or algorithms
we had moments in our day of doing nothing
it was enough to be good at something, you didn’t also have to be good at social media to be recognised
we did something just for the joy of it, without needing to document it
you got to know someone by talking to them, not looking at their feed
we didn’t believe everything we read
we took rubbish photos on disposable cameras and probably looked terrible a lot of the time, but we also looked happy
it wasn’t normalised to ignore or be ignored
we had to use our brain to solve problems or answer questions
we looked up at the world, not down at our 📱
everything was a lot slower, days felt longer