I want the 1970's back

I am a baby boomer. Born in 1963. I look back with nothing but fondness when I remember my 1970's childhood. I loved the serene 'no internet ~ no devices' era. And as I grow older, I am becoming more and more disillusioned with this modern world.

My rant all started because I received an email from Tiktok saying someone had tried to log into my account. Normally these are scammers but looking at the email it came from and then googling it,... I realized it was real. 

But I deleted my Tiktok account? How could it be around for someone to try and log into? And that is when I learned ~ after hours on the internet investigating ~ that Tiktok does not delete accounts. And you just have to google this to see thousands of people upset that they can't delete their account. The email told me to log in and check my security. But I deleted my account,.... didn't I? No,... apparently if you delete your account it doesn't go away. The minute you click on the Tiktok icon your profile immediately pops up and says "welcome back to Tiktok please sign in" and your profile is still there to sign in to,... I deleted that account 7 times yesterday but each time it re-opens immediately.

Tiktok is playing games. And this got me upset at how much the internet 'owns' you. A lesson learned,... if you open an account on any platform - it NEVER really goes away. I don't like that. 

And then, on top of that, I decided to look into buying a printer. I just need it to print out this blog so I can delete the account (but will it really go away?) so I don't have to worry about the "Tonya's" reading it. But that opened another can of worms ~ subscriptions. I discovered thorugh Youtube videos that if you buy a printer it will work for 6 months during the 'free trial' of ink. But the minute you try and print something after that trial runs out? The printer will not work. It will just spit out one piece of paper asking you to choose which subscription you want for your ink,... WTF? They force you to buy a subscription. You CAN buy the ink physically at four times the cost,.... extortion plain and simple.

Then I started seeing other videos about subscription fatigue and watched a few. I was shocked at the audacity of companies stealing peoples money through subscriptions. The worst I saw that day? If you buy a car with automatic seat warmers ~ you have to PAY A SUBSCRIPTION to use them,.... again,... wtf?

And there seems to be this overwhelming trend of buy a tangible material product ` but it needs a subscrioption to use. And they are doing it for everything now. I already pay a lot of money on subscriptions a month. Too much,... mostly streaming sites as my life is only about watching tv sadly so I need a lot of streaming sites not to get bored. 

Because you have to buy multiple sites to get what you want it all starts to add up. And after realizing this,... i have come to a conclusion. I am slowly weaning myself out of society. Cutting the tether of the internet and social media. I want to end up self-sufficient with no subscriptions except for tv watching.

I will NEVER buy anything that requires an internet connection to use. I am going back to basics. If it doesn't plug in ~ I don't buy it. The internet can be turned off in an instant and with it most people world goes silent. I want to be able to live like the 1970's. You buy somoething - it works for years without needing a subscription. I then went into my budget and widdled my subscriptions down to a much easier load to handle.

No more music subscription - I now just watch music videos on Youtube which I already pay for. (I actually gave all my CD's to TONYA! Wish I hadn't done that now)

I don't like how this new tech world grabs everything they can about you to use later,... and once they have it - they have it - no such word as delete in this society.

Another reason I am doing this is all the scamming out there. I just don't feel safe on the internet anymore. With AI ~ I don't know what is real and what is fake anymore and that is a confusing world to live in. I feel like the only phone calls I get are scammers and they are getting more and more sophisticated with AI. I don't feel safe buying anything anymore as there is always a risk of scammers interfering and hacking your sale on line.

So I am weaning myself off of the internet. Right now the only thing I use it for is my banking,... my blog,... and a game I play for an hour every morning. I deleted all my social media accounts (as best I can as I discovered they really dont let you). 

We live in a world full of fatigue. Subscription fatigue,... immigration fatigue,... (Canada has practicly given Canada to immigrants while those of us born and raised here go hungry and homeless),... AI fatigue,.... scamming fatigue,... this whole world right now just wears me out trying not to get scammed,.... it's every fucking day someone is trying to get my data and money!!! It's exhausting. 

I want the 1970's back!! But if I can't have that in true form,... then i will just create it.

Bye bye techno world - I am done with you. Back to reading, puzzles, and hiking,... unplugging from the grid and going back to a world where we didn't have to pay every month just to warm our asses with seat warmers that we already paid for through the sale of the vehicle,.... but now hve to pay monthly just to utilize,... 

I live in poverty. I cn't afford to pay a monthly subscription just to keep my printer running. 

I am shifting my life away from civilization and instead cutting the cord and trying to live 'off-grid' as much as I can. 

This world has become a hostile place for me now. I don't understand it,... I don't know how to navigate it,... and I seem to be failing at it. I can honestly say I don't like our world anymore.

I want my 1970's back,.....