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		Tiktaalik on Feb 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain Before there was the iphone people would read the newspaper. People having their attention glued to some 'thing' is nothing new.

gukov on Feb 25, 2019 [–]

But were people mindlessly flipping the pages the same way?..

vict00ms on Feb 25, 2019 | [–]

Yes. You'd be surprised by how much time people used to spend mindlessly flipping through the glossy coupon sections in the pre-smartphone days. People also used to read shampoo bottles while they pooped before they had phones out of sheer boredom.

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