Before social media I remember people who had entire conversations just quoting tv shows, movies, and commercials. Which shows they quoted was their personality.

I think it is much worse with social media, the content is a lot more niche and the algorithms a lot more addictive.

It's not so much the weird stuff they say, I think that is fairly normal, especially the younger you go. It's the inability to do anything in person without talking constant phone breaks that I find most worrying.

> It's the inability to do anything in person without talking constant phone breaks that I find most worrying.

So weird/eerie to go into an In-N-Out Burger or something, and see a table full of teenagers just sitting there silently scrolling their phones. Feels like we're in an episode of the Twilight Zone sometimes.

Not just teenagers, too. You'll see grown ass adults sitting there, technically together but totally absorbed into their phones.

Everyone gets their own echo chamber now.

I want a TikTok-era Bowling Along examining the impact modern single feed social media has had on group participation in the new generations...