i was born before 2000, and I don't know it neither

As a post-2000 person, I can get a glimpse of that in some TV shows like breaking bad. Also when looking at my parents pictures from when they where younger.

But I've never experienced it. You can hang out with friends and all but good luck convincing 4+ friends to NOT take their phones to a gathering.

There's always someone texting their gf/bf, someone who likes to post too much, someone deep in online gatchas.

Even an inactive user will carry their phone because of navigation, feeling insecure at night, paying stuff...

There's a billion excuses (with a range of validity) to take your phone with you.

Meh 😕

Maybe it's something of the people I socialize with. But we don't look at phones when we gather. It's impolite.

My friends and I would be glued to the N64 or xbox instead

Kids these days will never know the simple joys of lighting a filthy mattress on fire in a derelict parking lot and drinking a case of warm beer that was the easiest thing to steal from that one gas station a town over with the near sighted night clerk.

Rose tinted view. There were plenty of distractions without phones and people would just get black out drunk wayyy more often than they do now. Maybe a positive is that people can pave themselves easier now.

Change used to be gradual.

You could drop Cleopatra into Queen Victoria's court and she'd figure out the rules in a week.

Obama was cutting edge in 2008 because he used a Blackberry

This is what we'd do because we were broke. If we had money we'd go to bars and stuff, but otherwise we'd ask the supermarket for free fish ice and buy beers, then filled the bathtub with them.

As people came over they'd go drop the booze in the tub and pick up a cold one.

Many fun nights, though finding people using your bed, not so much.

I was born in 1952.
To me, people born after 2000 are true, real "aliens"

We used to have bonfire parties out in the woods. Such good times.

They also don't know what it's like for someone to move away and you just never see them again.