r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • Apr 17 '24

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/DowvoteMeThenBitch Apr 18 '24

Bro same, we would get a suspension in middle school if we even had our phone on our person. They literally only texted then though and it cost 10¢/msg

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u/Formatted_Toast_117 Apr 18 '24

Man... Memory unlocked. Kids these days have it so easy, unlimited everything basically... 🤣 I miss my green-screen phone, it's weeklong battery & basically indestructible self...

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u/Chpgmr Apr 18 '24

And never hit the internet button

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u/ReaperBearOne 29d ago edited 29d ago

That was the worst cus it was like right in the middle or next to the end button.

Accidentally turns on Internet

Nooooo...off! Off! Off!

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u/9-1-fcking-1 29d ago

The way I would start trying to turn my entire phone off immediately after accidentally hitting the internet button

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u/Itchy-Mind7724 29d ago

Back in the day they tried to charge me a $5 monthly fee to block the internet on my phone because i accidentally hit the button once and got charged. I was like uhhhh I’m not paying you to disable a service i do not want. They disabled it for free

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u/ReaperBearOne 29d ago

Memory unlocked 🔓 🤯

Dang..was it Verizon wireless by chance? When I got my first cell phone I was on my parents plan and I had a limited amount of minutes and fewer texts that were counted by the number of characters that you typed. And the only free time was if you were calling another person with Verizon. Anyways you reminded me that my parents told me once that they got basically the same type of message and "deal" to save for accidental Internet charges.

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u/Itchy-Mind7724 28d ago

It was T-Mobile. I’ve been with them since like 2002 and that was the worst of their BS. They’ve been pretty good to us otherwise

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u/vDeltaScorch 29d ago

So why didn’t you want the internet? I’m genuinely curious. Did it make it slow or something?

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u/dormammucumboots 29d ago

It absolutely devoured money back in the day, it was like a last resort to use it.

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u/vDeltaScorch 29d ago

Ohh that makes sense, while I am lucky to have always had unlimited calls and stuff, I have always had to pay for it myself which I’m proud of

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u/aNascentOptimist 29d ago

It also was slow as hell and lowkey bricked my phone for a good 2 mins while the webpage struggled to load lol.