When i was little i thought we'd have flying cars in 2025, instead, we have a fridge-looking iphone that costs almost $2000 and ai in everything. you might find it weird that a gen z teenager is against modern technology, but that's how i am (and a few others). technology was originally intended to help and make our lifes easier, but that's changed. technology doesn't really help us anymore; it creates addiction and is a mean of mass surveilance. credit cards, smartphones, logins, social media, chats... they're all controlled. when you use a credit card, you're leaving a record of what you bought, when, where, how much it costs.... ur cellphones aren't much better either, they're tracking you every day. have you ever wondered why soldiers in the russia-ukraine war never take their phones to battle? why they turn them off and leave them far away from the battle-front? well, it's because they can track those cellphones and find out where the soldiers are and where they're heading to. let me tell you, they do the same thing to you. another thing is social media, a bunch of propaganda, diversion and mass control. social media is used as a way to distract people from real world problems (like corruption and shady deals), a way to push propaganda into people's everyday life. when you repeat things a lot, your brains ends up believing them; so if you're being told 50 times a day that the president is good/bad (or whatever policy they're pushing), you'll end up believing it.
we've also got the so called 'fomo' (fear of missing out for whomever doesn't know). if you ask me, it's complete bullshit. yes, fomo has been around since forever, but it's social media what's pushed it into main view. people are afraid of deleting social media because they might 'miss out'. miss out on what exactly? stupid italian brainrot? on plas your 'friends' didn't invite you? on stupid fashion trends that'll last less than a month? on a random celebrity's life? come on, why would you care about those things? 'oh, cause my friends won't talk to me if idk the newest meme or celebrity fact'. bfr, if those are ur friends, just get new ones, or hve none, anything is better than such 'friends'. like dyt it's normal to spend 5+ hours o ur phone per day? just go out, read a book, touch some grass, talk to your neighbor, bake something, learn a new hobby or just anything that isn't being on ur phone.
'but u're using a computer rn', u're right, and i needa clarify, im not against technology, im just against how it's being used and pushed nowadays. yes, it's okay to own a computer and watch youtube or whatever for a while. the problem is when u spend all day on ur phone, wasting time, watching a random person's life; when u're being spied on everyday
the internet used to be a place, a place with a door, a place you'd go to after school, a place you looked forward to going to all day.... now it's not, now the internet is everywhere. the internet lost its charm when that place disappeared, when the door was removed, when the desk and the chair weren't necessary anymore, when you stopped looking forward to going to it all school day.... some people even say the internet died when that door disappeared. and maybe it did die, and instead we got whatever we have now. some people have tried to bring back parts of it, like spacehey for myspace, neocities for geocities, the wayback machine for a view on the old internet... and even though these are nice webs and attempts at bringing the old internet back, none of them feel like the old internet, cause you can't bring back something that died, something that disappeared. it's like dead people: you can keep pictures of them, visit their grave, wear their clothes, remember memories you had with them..., but nothing can change the fact that they're dead and they're not comming back.
i often wish i was born earlier (like in the mid 80s) to experience the old internet better, as a teenager maybe, maybe until my early 20s. but i wasn't. i actually barely got to experience the old internet, i got a bit of windows 7 on the family computer, but it didn't last too long either. ik i just said that it's impossible to bring it back, but i still hope we could, i hope webs would abandon that plain, minimalistic look, i hope the internet would have personality again: webs looking completely different from eachother, social media profiles being more personalizable.... i wish i could just drop all modern technollogy and go back to those big, boxy computers, those with the thick white borders, with the pixeled screen, with windows xp, 2000, 98, 95, or even windows 7. i hope i could just throw my smartphone through the window and just start using a flip-phone. i wish apple still sold ipods classic or mini, i wish instagram and tiktok would disappear, i wish schools would go back to more analog methods of teaching: with physical textbooks intead of the digital bs one that work sometimes, hand written essays instead of everything being done on a computer, physical paper posters intead of digital presentations, teachers actually giving you back the marked exams instead of just putting the grade into a website, with getting your grades on paper instead of on a digital document....