“Today Vs The Good Old Days”: 23 Things That Changed And You Decide – For Better Or For Worse

Lil Nitemare

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Sry not sry, but having a literal library in my back pocket will always be cool.

When i have to travel, i do not want to carry a ton of books

Both? Both. A whole library in your hand is incredible. But... There's nothing like finding a rare title for a bargain in a second-hand bookshop

I'm so tired of having paper pitted against ebook against audio. Consume the content in the best way for the person and the moment. It's all reading.

I'm 57, and LOVE having unlimited books on Kindle, but definitely art books need to be analog. I also love the library when I just want a "for fun" book that I know I want to read, enjoy, and NOT keep on the shelf.

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BP is a form of social media, people.

I actually don’t have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, etc. I like my private life to remain private. I pity kids these days. At least when I was in school, any bullying stayed on campus. Nowadays kids can’t escape it anywhere.

While the internet has upsides, it also has many downsides and I'm not sure if it's a net positive for society. Social media certainly isn't.

Again, these are not mutually exclusive. I don't use social media apart from BP and Instagram but I use the internet for all sorts of things.

The irony of people voting for getting rid of social media - on social media

The only item of clothing/apparel I insist on shopping for in a store are shoes. I don't trust sizes to be consistent. Sometimes in a store I'll find that a size that's way different than what I usually get will fit me better.

This is someone for which I'd prefer a hybrid. You go to the store for advice and a personalised experience. I need this for shoes, helmets and specialised electronics. Simple stuff you just throw in some online shopping basket.

It depends on the item. Some things I buy online, other things I buy from a shop. This is not an either/or thing.

I never shop online because I love thrift stores/second hand stores so much. It's so exciting to find a piece of clothing that I never imagined wearing but it looks just right when I see it in the store. Or finding an old game that I didn't even know existed but it turns out to be very fun. Online shopping allows you to find anything you want with a couple of keywords, but shopping in a store allows you to find things you like, you just didn't know that you liked them yet.

Depends on the item. And on how good the selection is at the local stores. And on whether I want an excuse to get out of the house—shopping is good for that. There are pros and cons to both.

I have enough thoughts swirling in my head, so writing them down won't stop me waking up at 3am worrying about something I did or said years ago.

I don't have a journal, but I definitely prefer taking notes in a physical notebook. It's so much easier to grab a pencil and scribble in a page corner or flip through the pages to find what you're looking for than it is to remember what you even titled that random note in the app two weeks ago.

Neither?

I have a box full of handwritten diaries and bullet journals. I keep putting filled notebooks in there. 😊

Cards are stupidly expensive and so is postage, but if you care about a person you can manage a fiver once a year for a proper card. A text....just isn't the same. Texts are for people who surprise you by remembering that it even is your birthday. Meh.

I prefer making digital cards out of photos so which one should I choose?

I usually make a virtual card, somewhat funny and nice!

64% claim they prefer letters 1% actually send them

I hate greeting cards. They're just a $5 piece of trash to throw away once you read it.

Texting is good for short, simple things like, "Meet me there at 5!" but I couldn't imagine having a serious conversation over text because it's too easy to misunderstand someone. I've been told I sounded passive-aggressive by several people because I usually text back "Okay." with a period and it's apparently weird to use punctuation in texts.

They're completely different ways of communicating?

I can text from work, but personal phone calls are virtually impossible.

Neither. I look at The Guardian each morning, and then when I'm fully disillusioned with reality (the US just did *what*?!?), I don't look at the news for the rest of the day.

Another false choice. You can keep up with news online without letting anyone else curate the content. Anyone using a "news feed" with notifications etc. is simply surrendering control over what they see to somebody else.

Just the other day, I told the clerk at the store when they asked for coupons, "I used to clip them 25 years ago from the Sunday paper". She looked at me like "Okay Peepaw, you just shuffle off on home now".

I would choose neither if I could, but if I have to choose, give me the news paper. I won't read it, but it gives me material for arts and crafts

I tend to read news online because it's more up to date and I can comment on the articles if I wish.

Growing up, all the neighbours knew each other and us free range children just hung out at random people's homes. These days, it's like everybody is suspicious and paranoid and nobody wants to know anybody. It's weird and sad.

I'm an extrovert so I like meeting new people no matter what.

A nice in-the-middle situation. Knowing my neighbours doesn't make them my close friends.

My neighbors are fruitloops, one is a magat, the other is a "We the people" Libertarian. It's like living in a cuckoo's nest.

Binge watching can be fun, but after four episodes of Red Dwarf I start to see Rimmer's face imposed on Mr Auntriarch's, and that's not good. And there was something about going into school and EVERYONE was talking about the last episode of I Claudius (except the girl whose parents' religion forbade telly)

As you get older, your memory for what happened in the last episode degrades, therefore binge watching all the way.

Depends what. Programmes that are largely stand-alone episodic can do well with a weekly release. Unlike conventional TV it's not something you need to particularly arrange your life around. Once a week at 8 can just as easily be whenever the following day. However programmes that are complicated and involved and directly follow on from the previous episode work better as a dump so you can watch multiple episodes (don't need to watch them all) at once to keep everything fresh in your mind. A good example here is The Expanse when the first three seasons arrived at once. It took me about a week, but having the episodes in temporal proximity meant that I enjoyed it a lot more as plot points were not forgotten. And on the more extreme side, the eternity between some seasons, or parts of a film. Stranger Things, I'm looking right at you here...

In a way, I've always been binge watcher. Many tv shows didn't even come to tv here and you had to get your hands on the vhs sets or later cds etc