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People used to easily remember dozens and dozens of phone numbers, because that's just what you did. Today, people Google phone numbers they use regularly. I'v
by reaperducer 4y ago
People used to easily remember dozens and dozens of phone numbers, because that's just what you did.
Today, people Google phone numbers they use regularly. I've had interactions with people who have a hard time even remembering their own phone number.
- ramraj07 4y agoSo? People just use that memory to remember something else. I don’t think technology has made anyone smarter or dumber. It just changes what you think and remember, often with minimal real effects on society (at least due to changes in how your brain is used).
- pessimizer 4y agoYou're basing this on the law of averages?
- pille 4y agoWe now have to remember lots of passwords. That’s pretty much the same memorization job.
- liotier 4y agoKids these days, they don't even remember their workstation's MAC address !
- jacquesm 4y agoI still remember lots of phone numbers, but they're all from the days before the contact list in my phone. Besides those the only new one I remember is my own.
- omega3 4y agoPeople nowadays have no trouble remembering the ig, twitter, tiktok, twitch handles of the people they follow.
- gernb 4y agowhy would you need to remember your own phone number. I talk to almost no one via my phone number. I can't think of a single friend I've needed to share a phone number with in ~10 years. Most of them I contact via FB Messenger, some via WhatsApp, others via Line, none of them do I call on via their phone number Maybe phone numbers are just old crap best left in the past Yes, I get we still use them for registering accounts but they suck IMO and need to be phased out. People move countries, numbers change or get stolen or get revoked.