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> I've never heard people who are now adults who had "TV time" restrictions express a lot of FOMO or regret about it I grew up adjacent to a pretty wealthy ar
by paulcole 3y ago
> I've never heard people who are now adults who had "TV time" restrictions express a lot of FOMO or regret about it
I grew up adjacent to a pretty wealthy area where every kid I went to school with had cable TV. My parents just flat out refused to get cable saying it was a waste of money.
It was a really alienating thing as a kid to not be able to talk about what was on TV.
My parents are nice enough people but their stubbornness over this is something that for the life of me I'll never understand. I don't really interact w/ them much anymore so who knows. My general take on family is that they're just people you were introduced to.
So there's one data point on the other side.
- soperj 3y ago> My parents just flat out refused to get cable saying it was a waste of money. They were right.
- paulcole 3y agoNo, I pay for it as an adult and I love it. Great value.
- JohnFen 3y agoOne person's waste is another person's value. Both stances are correct. But you would have hated having me as a parent. My kids didn't get to watch TV as a habit at all when they were young. They did get to watch TV, but only selected programs and only as a family activity. As adults, they have all expressed that while it may have angered them sometimes when they were young, they came to appreciate my stance as adults. If smartphones existed then, there's exactly zero chance that I would have allowed them to have one.
- jinushaun 3y agoWow. TIL I grew up cable, my parents stopped paying for it all through middle and high school, missed it, grew up and got my own money, paid for cable, and… my parents were right. 200 channels of nothing to watch. Cable is a waste of money.
- paulcole 3y agoNeat! I watch it every day. Didn’t realize it was a waste of money until just now.
- soperj 3y agoBased on your previous posts, it seems like you are fully invested in advertising for some reason. Don't know why you'd pay to watch it as well, but hey... different strokes.
- paulcole 3y agoYeah, ads are good. They tell me about new things I might want to buy that might make my life better. Why wouldn't I want to see them?
- soperj 3y agoThey bloat webpages, take time from what you're actually looking for, and are a huge vector for malware delivery & social engineering. They literally take away from the programming you're watching if it's television, sometimes are even detrimental to the product that consuming.
- paulcole 3y agoEh, not that compelling. Who cares if they “bloat webpages”? It’s 2024 our phones and computers can handle it lol. Either don’t go to the site again or deal with it. Websites aren’t free. Some apples have worms in them. Some ads have malware in them. We don’t cry and whine about how terrible apples are as a result. TV shows arent free. You’re welcome to turn it off if you hate the ads enough.
- soperj 3y agoI have. Many many people have. This conversation is literally about not paying for cable.