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Hot Takes 9w
The loneliness epidemic would not be a thing if phones didn’t exist
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Anonymous 9w

I think it’s more about the internet than just phones tbh

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Anonymous 9w

Nah its human nature, you haven’t seen those 1900s pictures of train cars and everyone is holding a newspaper

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Anonymous 8w

Gotta be like the Tyson Fury boxing match against Deontay Wilder when Tyson came back from that knockdown from Wilder and continued keeping his stance and slowly countered Wilder’s punches. What a performance. You should do this too

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Anonymous 8w

People don’t even know how to even say hello these days though so it’s tough

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

True ig that’s what I meant. I just feel like if you look back to a time when phones weren’t normalized, people were not talking about a loneliness epidemic

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

To be fair, it could also just be that we didn’t know everyone was this lonely because there was no way to ask a lot of people at once. I don’t think phones or the internet are the root of the problem. l think of them as a tool and it’s the way we use those tools that has led us to where we are now. I mean, we literally allow businesses to use psychology to take advantage of their customers unconscious minds just so they can make profit

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

You got a point it’s definitely not the root cause

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