alt Hacker NewsSimilar experience for me and it’s just been replaced with… nothing. My gaming buddies talk on Discord but I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore. It’d be a hassle to even figure out how to contact them. Only 13 people showed up to my high school reunion last year from a graduating class of ~400.
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"…I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore…"
Yeah, actually why I left Facebook a decade ago: finding out what horrible people my relatives were.
Same. Idk how college communication work now; we had class groups and planned everything over FB events/pages back then.
For friends, I started a few text group chats to stay in touch. It's really annoying because someone has Android and RCS is broken on someone's end. Some also use FB Messenger, but nobody 2 years younger or older than me is on that.
It’s returned to nothing. Losing touch with people you didn’t contact regularly was the norm until the mid 2000s.
For someone who grew up in the ‘golden years’ of social media, it’s kinda weird to see.