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I imagine if you peeked over a teenager's shoulder as they went about their routine phone habits you'd have little idea what was going on through all the memes,
by SomewhatLikely 8y ago
I imagine if you peeked over a teenager's shoulder as they went about their routine phone habits you'd have little idea what was going on through all the memes, inside jokes, cultural references, and slang. I have a hard time believing our ability to memorize is so rigid that it peaked in the period after operators routed calls and before phone books, rolodexes, and contact lists in flip phones. We just put memory to different uses throughout time.
- tralarpa 8y ago> We just put memory to different uses throughout time. I agree. Just look how many site names, youtube channels, game rules, game item stats, memes, pokemon names (is that still a thing?), anime slang, etc. young people can memorize. No /s, I am serious.
- wpietri 8y agoSure, but it's plausible that kind of memory is measured differently. It's been decades since I took an IQ test, but one component was "digit span", where they'd give you longer and longer strings of arbitrary digits and see where you couldn't keep up. As someone programming before copy/paste that was a skill I practiced all the time, so I was freakishly good at it.