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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 197468" data-attributes="member: 102">I wasn&#039;t old enough when I started watching Dallas to be going out to bars anyway; I was just a kid. I actually enjoyed watching it with my family at that time - Dallas was one thing we all liked. Later on when I was in high school if I was going out on a Friday night, someone would videotape it or I&#039;d set the timer on the VCR to record it. In college nobody stayed in on Friday nights, but nothing really got started until at least 10:00 anyway, so I could watch Dallas and then go out.I am so glad I grew up in a time where there was no internet; I think our generation had more fun than the kids today. The internet made it so you can find anything you want at the click of a few keys, but it&#039;s too easy; that&#039;s not good.&nbsp; Before, if you were really interested in something you had to go out and look for it, actually do some work, but then you were really experiencing it. You had to figure out more things for yourself and have more of an imagination.You mention how you could open a conversation with &quot;So, who do YOU think shot J.R.?&quot;&nbsp; Now there isn&#039;t anything that&#039;s equivalent of that because we&#039;ve got hundreds of channels and thousands of shows, so everybody is watching something different. We had the three big networks and later, FOX with its 2 or 3 shows, so we watched a lot of the same shows and it gave people something in common they could talk about. People have less in common with each other now, regarding a lot more than just TV, so the overall effect has been divisive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 197468, member: 102"] I wasn't old enough when I started watching Dallas to be going out to bars anyway; I was just a kid. I actually enjoyed watching it with my family at that time - Dallas was one thing we all liked. Later on when I was in high school if I was going out on a Friday night, someone would videotape it or I'd set the timer on the VCR to record it. In college nobody stayed in on Friday nights, but nothing really got started until at least 10:00 anyway, so I could watch Dallas and then go out. I am so glad I grew up in a time where there was no internet; I think our generation had more fun than the kids today. The internet made it so you can find anything you want at the click of a few keys, but it's too easy; that's not good. Before, if you were really interested in something you had to go out and look for it, actually do some work, but then you were really experiencing it. You had to figure out more things for yourself and have more of an imagination. You mention how you could open a conversation with "So, who do YOU think shot J.R.?" Now there isn't anything that's equivalent of that because we've got hundreds of channels and thousands of shows, so everybody is watching something different. We had the three big networks and later, FOX with its 2 or 3 shows, so we watched a lot of the same shows and it gave people something in common they could talk about. People have less in common with each other now, regarding a lot more than just TV, so the overall effect has been divisive. [/QUOTE]

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