I'd imagine pre-Internet conversations were just as "sad". The main difference was you couldn't "show" what you were talking about. Nowadays instead of verbally describing a conversation with a friend, you'll just do a screenshot dump.
Given how much social life basically migrated to the Internet, there aren't that many happenings without a digital trace.
I mean you can't even discuss politics without talking about Trump's twitter...[0]
Just yesterday grandma was showing me pics my aunt sent her. Pics she found on cousin's Facebook profile.
[0] We already have political scandals that involve just email dumps, think how cool things are going to get when we get dumps of facebook/slack/whatever convos!
Given how much social life basically migrated to the Internet, there aren't that many happenings without a digital trace.
I mean you can't even discuss politics without talking about Trump's twitter...[0]
Just yesterday grandma was showing me pics my aunt sent her. Pics she found on cousin's Facebook profile.
[0] We already have political scandals that involve just email dumps, think how cool things are going to get when we get dumps of facebook/slack/whatever convos!