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It's not about when it happens, it's about the fact that humans are tribal, and it is immediately scary to be cut off from your tribe. For an older generation t

It's not about when it happens, it's about the fact that humans are tribal, and it is immediately scary to be cut off from your tribe. For an older generation that already feels disconnected from their world and have started to lose their social circles, the immediate disconnect from what they had left is traumatizing, regardless of the platform.

pupppet 5y ago
When social circles are shrinking due to social media, the answer is less social media.
EricE 5y ago
If you start to feel cut off after six hours... there's something very wrong with you.
handrous 5y ago
Older generation? I'm not even that old and everyone freaking out at communication "reverting" to still much faster and easier than in 2003 and trying to explain why they were so distraught over a few hours of kickin' it like the 90s (except, again, not at all, because the entire rest of the Internet still existed, and everyone still had a texting-capable cell phone on them at all times) has been very funny. I'm trying to imagine my grandma, who lived through WWII and polio and Korea and the civil rights movement and Vietnam and the oil crisis and decades of worrying about nuclear war et c. and didn't use a communication device more advanced than a home telephone until some time after 2005, having a meltdown over six. hours. without Facebook and WhatsApp. LOL. This is a woman who wouldn't think it's that weird if a house didn't have tap water.
- mc32 5y ago
  That last anecdote is quite funny and ironic. Give it a few weeks or a month and people would mostly get used to it. It’s like when revolutions happen and all that you depended on pretty much collapses (Afghanistan today) or losing rights (China and maybe Australia), people soon enough get used to not having things. Initially it’s shocking but people get on with life and make do where necessary.

pupppet 5y ago

When social circles are shrinking due to social media, the answer is less social media.

EricE 5y ago

If you start to feel cut off after six hours... there's something very wrong with you.

handrous 5y ago

Older generation? I'm not even that old and everyone freaking out at communication "reverting" to still much faster and easier than in 2003 and trying to explain why they were so distraught over a few hours of kickin' it like the 90s (except, again, not at all, because the entire rest of the Internet still existed, and everyone still had a texting-capable cell phone on them at all times) has been very funny. I'm trying to imagine my grandma, who lived through WWII and polio and Korea and the civil rights movement and Vietnam and the oil crisis and decades of worrying about nuclear war et c. and didn't use a communication device more advanced than a home telephone until some time after 2005, having a meltdown over six. hours. without Facebook and WhatsApp. LOL. This is a woman who wouldn't think it's that weird if a house didn't have tap water.

mc32 5y ago
That last anecdote is quite funny and ironic. Give it a few weeks or a month and people would mostly get used to it. It’s like when revolutions happen and all that you depended on pretty much collapses (Afghanistan today) or losing rights (China and maybe Australia), people soon enough get used to not having things. Initially it’s shocking but people get on with life and make do where necessary.