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GENX RULES, NON-FACT-CHECKING FACEBOOK FOOLS
Back In My Day, We Didn’t Have Stupid Facebook Problems
How did I ever make social connections?
When I was your age, I didn’t have social media as you know it today. I’m a GenXer and predictably proud of it. The 1980s was a great time of innovation. We had MTV, Apple personal computers, and CNN.
We carried dimes for calls on 10-cent payphones, and some still used Morse code. Two taps for “Yes” and one tap for “No.” Three short taps and one long for “Meet me at home” Or something like that.
I lived in a small beach town called Carpinteria, where everyone knew your name. If we ran out of dimes, we could walk into Tyler’s Donuts in Casitas Plaza and ask to use their phone or wait about ten minutes.
My friends would buy powdered donuts, and I’d get the raspberry jelly-filled glazed. We were polite for the most part, only getting rowdy at the outside tables after our third serving.
A few of us had pagers, which, contrary to the rumors, weren’t only for drug deals. Fact-check me just in case, but rumors are usually false information.
When paged, it displayed your BFF’s phone number and vibrated to let you know they were thinking of you. Pagers made us look…