People Are Getting Nostalgic – About Life Before Netflix!

We all get nostalgic about times past; the different things that make up our memories. The Generation Y gets nostalgic about tape recorders and VCRs. Millennials get nostalgic about CD players. I am not sure if the Netflix generation is actually a thing, but apparently they get all misty eyed and nostalgic too – about life BN (before Netflix).

The urgency of the ad break

Some of us recall the urgency of trying to rush to the loo and fit in visit to the kitchen for a snack during the ad break. Almost a million people do identify with this if the 951k likes are anything to go by! Of course the Netflix gen only has to press pause.

TV was more social?

The idiot box that turns viewers into unthinking zombies is social? Who knew! Well in a sense this true. Most people watched the same shows and then proceeded to discuss and dissect them. 

This happened too!

I remember a time when I would be on the phone with a friend while watching TV or soon thereafter… because waiting till later would be too late!

I still do this!

On the rare occasions that I watch anything on live TV (as against a DVR recording) I do this. The rest of the time, I have the satisfaction of forwarding the ads I don’t like and watching the few I do. 

Delaying gratification or plain cruelty?

We all remember this, don’t we! They would make us wait till the next day or week or whatever to find out what happened next. Perhaps they were teaching us patience? Or maybe they just enjoyed being cruel.

Remember this?

I do. I would get up just for a minute only to find my fave seat gone! And if I was lucky enough to get hold of the remote, I wasn’t letting go! I agree with this other tweet: “I would be known to carry the remote around with me from room to room”.

I hear this too

I will hear this when I refuse to respond or say ‘Shhh I'm watching’. I also hear “you can make the ads go faster you know” when I forward ads at only x16 speed on Tata Sky.

Gen X nostalgia

TV viewing used to be a family activity – probably because there was one device and options were limited. Now everyone in the family seems to have different preferences and each one can watch what they want, when they want. It sounds a little lonely! Suddenly I am nostalgic too: For a time when there weren’t so many hundreds of channels, Amazon Prime and Netflix and a hundred other on demand services.

Maybe there wasn’t so much entertaining content around but then there was that much less FOMO too: what if I am watching something that is merely OK when I could be watching something fabulous!

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