To think the 90's/early 2000's was when we peaked and everything has gone downhill since due to technology

[SonnyHoney]

To think the 90s/early 2000s was when we peaked and everything has gone downhill since due to technology.

Bear in mind I was only a child/teen then (mid 30s now).
There was just the right amount of technology.
People just seemed happier.

I wish I could have raised my children in a similar environment to what my mother raised me in.

2012 was the peak. Went downhill from then on

I think 70s/80s were peak so I reckon its just when we were at a certain age/point in our lives (no responsibility for one) and look back and realised we managed just fine without all this stuff.
Probably an element of rose tinted glasses about the past too- records are back in fashion - I still love my cds and can't believe people today choose vinyl over cd.

Everyone thinks society peaked when they were personally between 8-12 years old.

Nah my school days in the 90s and early 00s were fuckin torture. Society is better now. Kids aren't arseholes.

I agree, late 90s I think is where I'd hit the pause button.

Not for me. I was thoroughly miserable then.

The golden age was 1973 to 2016.

I’m literally watching About a Boy right now, and thinking about the 2000s!

The late 90s through 2007/8 were a blip, things are just normalising now.

Heaven knows I was miserable then, not now 🎶

It's been going downhill since 9/11 I feel. So much hate and division in the world today compared to the 90s.

I think it’s that we see and hear about it more due to social media, which then fuels the division and hate even more.

Viscous circle.

Yep I think late 90s was peak 👍🏻

I don’t know that it’s all due to technology, much of it is yes, but other things such as rising house prices are not so much. But things have definitely gone downhill.

1998 was peak.

Oh undoubtedly. I'd go as far as saying social media has been the most disastrous and irreversible invention of the 21st century.

Depends what life stage you were at.
I was in my element- until i finished uni and realised uni didn't equal magical job.
My mum was menopausal + looking after her dad + worrying about dad's potential redundancy + navigating late teenagers/ university. She certainly wasn't as happy as I am at the same age.

The 2008 crash was the beginning of the end. The iPhone was the coup de grace.

Hard agree with 2012 being a peak (London Olympics, I'm looking at you!).
Not sure there is one peak, though, more a series - although they feel a bit few and far been now....

I think the advent of smartphones really signalled a decline in peoples
happiness.

Depending on the time you were young, that peak may have been the 90s, 80s, 70s etc but phones have made almost everything worse

It’s not ‘technology’, some technology is great and makes life better.
a lot of the problems are being caused by geopolitics but that’s applied throughout history.

Technology has caused so much unemployment and is the cause of the demise of the High Street.

Online shopping, self service checkouts, internet banking, cashless parking, paperless correspondence, social networking, internet dating, call centres, robots in factories, working from home, supermarket home deliveries ... all these things have had an adverse effect on our way of life. People don't need to leave home, the longer you separate yourself from society, the more insular you become, some of us found this with the covid lockdown. People don't seem as open and friendly with others, people are so suspicious of one another.

It's one thing having technology to provide labour saving devices like washing machines, tumble dryers, vacuum cleaners, power tools, hair dryers, lawn mowers, they free up time to actually go to work or have leisure time, and they don't directly affect mass employment/unemployment.

AI is only going to make things worse.

Some misty-eyed heterosexual posts this same post every 3 weeks or so. If you were gay and only gained equal marriage rights slightly over a decade ago, you might have noticed that no, not 'everything' has gone down hill since the 1990s.

You know how everyone (heterosexual) fretted about lockdown and how terribly harmful it was going to be for poor precious teens not to be able to date and have their first kiss and the 'normal' teenage experience they were entitled to? Well if you were gay, the 1990s was one long lockdown. Do I miss it? Fuck no.

Yes I was very happy with MSN messenger and a brick phone! I really hate smart phones. Wish I could go back to those days.

Late 80's, 90's were the best for me. The State in Lliverpool was immense!

Liverpool ffs!

That was situational, in most cities there was a thriving 'gay' town/clubs. For gay men the fear of HIV and no definite treatments until the late 90s, curbed behaviour.

The 90/2000s seemed to have been before the population explosion and there were still Council/HA housing about. Employment was ok and we have working tax credits, as well as the disability discrimination acts and every child matters etc. The 80s in Liverpool were tough, other cities that the wealth was redirected to, had different experiences. But things dud seem to start to be on the up. Now it's a shit show again.