I got married even though it meant waiting for every restaurant meal to be photographed and posted to Instagram before I could take a bite.
One of those moments when I’m glad my wife cares almost as little about social media as I do.
Hell yeah. My partner and I only take pictures of meals we’ve made ourselves when we’re super proud, and occasionally when a piece of sushi looks extra good. Neither of us are into social media.
(Also neither of us make each other watch things on our phones. We just take a note if something sounds interesting and pull it up on the big screen later.)
Why did you do that?
I’m guessing it wasn’t a deal breaker
OP down bad for their wife, what a loser
They are very concerned with the question “What did you have for dinner last night?”
We are not going out to eat often if I gotta wait for the perfect photo. You better get the waiter to take you back to the kitchen if you want snapshots of the food before I see it and take a bite.
I don’t get it.
“men bad lol”
That’s why I send my memes to my wife’s phone. so she can view them on her own phone.
My wife shows me wayyyy more videos on her phone than I show her on mine
Most of the stuff I share is still images/comics/gifs etc
Same. It takes a very special video to get me to turn my sound on. Definitely more of a static content feller
Mine shares reels, every 19 seconds she has something new to show.
I try to share useful information from youtube but she doesn’t have the attention span to watch them anymore.
So it’s a one way road and i’m trying my best to just nod and smile at the reels while keeping focus on the information i’m trying to contain from the long form video. It’s a bloody warzone sometimes, “hey, look haha. Hey, look haha. Hey, look haha”…can you give me 10 minutes please? And then she’s pissed at me.
Short form content…i want my old wife back, can you please remove yourself from existence. You ruined her.
Mine even acknowledges that I hate tik tok videos while shoving them in my face. And when I’m not being shown videos, I’m getting filled in on some petty drama that no one should give a fuck about.
The app has turned her into an extremely negative person.
A man can get into a lot of trouble, if he doesn’t watch the endless tiktok reals with enthusiasm and excitement.
My wife tells me dad jokes. Really really terrible dad jokes. Ones that make me roll my eyes, and I’m a dad. That’s how bad they are. But they make her laugh so I’m ok with that.
i have a tip to get back at her. whenever her phone rings, make sure you say ‘its for you’. i still find this hilarious after 15 years . she is less amused, but at least im entertained.
Have you ever said it and it turned out to be someone calling the wrong number? Are you ever worried she’ll flip it on you and conspire with a friend to have them call you on her phone?
You’re playing a dangerous game, friend.
Please for all that is wonderful in the world start telling me every. Single. One of these.
Or convince her to just start telling me them. I need the ammo to crush my rivals
Seems like there is a solution she hasn’t considered. Marrying a woman who has and uses her own phone. It won’t be “a man’s phone” then.
Or a man that doesn’t use a phone, only a laptop.
Or a non-binary that doesn’t use any technology.
Or a clone of herself, that way she’s just showing herself her own phone.
Clones stop being you the moment they are created, assuming they had your memories in the first place, which isn’t scientifically plausible.
Please be serious about this 🙄
I’d still fuck em.
We don’t know that she hasn’t considered that option.
I’m a man who hates watching videos on my phone, but I’m already married. I’ll ask around tho.
Are you kidding me? My fb chat with my wife is nothing but memes and videos from her
babe wake up new 3 and a half hour video essay about plagiarism just dropped
Which one?
You lied to me. This will make me reevaluate our current relationship. You have gone from stranger to ‘take with a grain of salt’ stranger.
😔
I showed this to my girlfriend and she was like, “I don’t get it, why are you showing this to me?”
Me: “Remind me, which ingredients do we need again?”
Spouse: hands me a 10 minute youtube video
Nah, I’m too Gen X to watch videos on my phone, let me pull it up on my laptop.
Videos are a big screen activity.
For me it’s more that youtube videos are a browser with an ad blocker activity.
Firefox for mobile with your chosen ad-blocker
I’ve found the venn diagram of those who most frequently try to get me to watch videos on their phone, and the people who watch said videos in a third-party browser on a device that supports extensions, is just two distant circles. Your mileage may vary.
oh lol… apple…
Yeah, i could never
I watch things all the time on my iPhone, no ads ever! Use Wipr for a couple bucks or Firefox Focus for free and no ads!
Edit: or Vinegar and Baking Soda also make for better mobile video experiences.
Wipr is the best, no ads nor problems. Frequent updates. Accepts donations!
Never heard of it but I’m going in, thanks to you both for the authentic recommendation.
Revanced
2nd’d
And a big screen. Not necessarily ‘living room tv’ big, but definetly big enough that I can’t fit that in my pocket.
Have you really lived until you have watched a hour long marble race while cuddling
But not a the biggest screen you have activity. That is reserved for movies and TV shows.
At least medium screen.
I know, right??
Don’t have a kid. You’ll be made to watch videos on their phone. For hours’ worth of your life.
If it’s exclusively David Attenborough documentaries, then that’s okay.
It is not. Although it does involve lots and lots of animals so they can tell you how cute they are.
Showing me the weird shit you watch on YouTube is a requirement for me, I want to know what videos you watch when you’re alone and bored with nothing to do.
PBS Space Time
Matt’s Off Road Recovery
I hope you like documentaries about completely random shit from politics of a foreign nation over 300 years ago, to how an obscure campaign of a war over a hundred years ago was fought, a full biography of a fictional character and what events they may have been witness to, to a plethora of asmr things as background noise, engineering deep dives and video game related content.
I show my girlfriend videos about how car indicators work.
Technology Connections is an awesome channel though.
You might as well be watching videos on witchcraft. /s
Its not about me liking it, its about knowing about what intensely interests you, but that just sounds like a conversation with my mate, so I’m in for that.
Sploosh
Bobby Fingers’ Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama is the first weird video I’ll share. Good litmus test for the relationship I think.
Enjoy lots of archaeology videos and old movies.
