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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,446 posts) Fri Sep 30, 2022, 04:20 PM Sep 2022

Twitter is getting too complicated. Did you know back in MY day, ...

Twitter is getting too complicated. Did you know back in MY day, Tweets could only be 140 charcaters long? Because you used to send them by SMS! There were no videos or GIFs. Where did the “public” or “circles”come from? Choosing who can reply? An EDIT button? Give me a break!

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Twitter is getting too complicated. Did you know back in MY day, ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 OP

Back in my day we didn't have no Twitter, cell phones or . doc03 Sep 2022 #1

It was a better world? Elessar Zappa Sep 2022 #2

True some better some worse. nt doc03 Sep 2022 #3

I will concede that our democracy was in much better shape. Elessar Zappa Sep 2022 #4

All of it is fueled by the social and right wing media. doc03 Sep 2022 #5

doc03

(35,337 posts)

1. Back in my day we didn't have no Twitter, cell phones or .

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Sep 30, 2022, 04:44 PM

Sep 2022

computers. It was a better world, no spam, telemarketers, people stealing your identity. We had a party line and three channels on the TV and actually talked to people.

Elessar Zappa

(13,991 posts)

2. It was a better world?

Reply to doc03 (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 30, 2022, 05:04 PM

Sep 2022

Really? There was segregation, lgbtq had zero rights, women were basically property and couldn’t even get a credit card, etc. Seriously, some things were better, some things weren’t.