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The future of human social interactions
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Posted on 08/04/2026 6:50:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

The future of human social interactions


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: dystopia; fred; futurama; future

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1 posted on 08/04/2026 6:50:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Except for that very last part, which was a bit OTT, that scenario is almost believable. A situation where people stand face to face, yet still think they need to communicate via Text and Email messages. We are not too far off from that, at least not with a small segment from Generation Z.

There is hope though. As the school year approaches, I’m hearing more and more about schools deciding that certain hours of the school day will be Phone Free. Some did it last year, and guess what? No riots, no maulings, no lawsuits for ‘psychic trauma’, so it can be done.


2 posted on 08/04/2026 7:03:09 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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3 posted on 08/04/2026 7:31:06 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I remember how shocked I was when some of my relatives was sending e-mail messages to her husband living in the same home instead just howl on him.


4 posted on 08/04/2026 7:34:18 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: lee martell

About 19 years ago, my then-16 year old son was in a car with a guy friend and two girl friends parked on the street in front of our house. It was a chilly night and I saw all the car windows were fogged up…and bathed in an eerie blue glow. I went out to investigate and found all four of them on their phones! Ugh.


5 posted on 08/04/2026 7:35:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I read that as social lacerations.

Perez Hilton


6 posted on 08/04/2026 7:36:01 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: lee martell

I was at a bakery up in Middlebury, VT a few years ago, a major Leftist fever swamp, and a bunch of college kids were messaging each other while they were sitting next to each other...totally weird.


7 posted on 08/04/2026 7:39:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Lol! Some of that may have been because Teenagers love to keep (what they think are) secret conversations from their parents, and they figured somebody would be looking out the front window if one of the Boys had walked over to the Girls’ car to speak.


8 posted on 08/04/2026 7:41:48 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TornadoAlley3
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9 posted on 08/04/2026 7:44:58 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: rlmorel

That’s pretty goofy, but most likely, ‘everybody else’ was doing the same thing, that or, certain ones may have been sending what we used to call ‘Love Notes’ to someone else in the little group.

FYEO = For Your Eyes Only!


10 posted on 08/04/2026 7:45:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

All four were in ONE car, boys in front, girls in back. All four were on their phones.

That’s not how I played it back in 1967!


11 posted on 08/04/2026 9:06:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Oh, that’s different. It sounds like School Dance Night, where both sides are too immature/ bashful to start mixing it up with the opposite sex. That elephant in the car.


12 posted on 08/04/2026 9:26:28 PM PDT by lee martell
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