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What's your 'old person' trait?

For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.

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I don't download every new random chat app that's in vogue. I'll give you my phone number and we can text or talk without having to go through more 3rd parties besides the telephone companies we get service from. I hated needing a bajillion different text apps to talk to everyone I knew in the 2000s, I sure as hell ain't gonna start that shit up again 25 years down the road. Unless someone makes something like Trillian, fuck off with your WeChats and WhatsApp and Velcro or whatever the fuck.
- I'd usually agree with this but SMS is pretty insecure, so I mainly use Signal instead for the end-to-end encryption in a responsible manner (no leaking war plans like a certain SecDef).
  
  It's cool. I don't plan on discussing war plans. Just swapping dick and bootyhole pics.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware
  Do we really think ICE are the only ones? This also made me wonder if this is why DoD was using an unofficial version.
- Most of my friends don’t even have my phone number, let alone a messaging service. We do postal mail or just go to each other’s houses. I mail out about twenty letters a week and get that much back, on nice stationery.
  It’s good to feel loved.
  
  Dude or dudess, if true, f*cking awesome. And i envy you
  
  There is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing the same thing.
  Make a friend’s day, give them mail that’s not bills or ads or packages.
  
  Last time I ever wrote letters was while I was in the service. Kept every single letter.
  
  Paper mail is so underrated.
  I need to get a wax sealing kit.
  
  And a fountain pen. Or six.
  
  Postage stamps, in this economy?
  Joke aside I think that's pretty cool.
  
  Postage is expensive, but I look forward to checking my mail. Mixed in with the ads is real human sentiment!
  
  that's awesome but my God my ADHD ass could not wait weeks for a response 😭
  id leave them on read for like 4 months because I can't find a stamp or something and forgot about it
- It's interesting because inside the US, this is a totally valid opinion to hold. Outside the US, many people end up having to pay per message, but can use data for free via WiFi, so it makes more sense that these apps are popular there.
  
  It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that's why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was "free" anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it's no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it's because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.

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