What Did People Do Before Social Media | Sherri Shepherd

Life before Social Media ?! Get into it! After Facebook was down yesterday this reminded Sherri of all the things she did before social media 📲🤣
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[@mrsqu33nl33]

I miss life before social media

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

That's sad to hear, that's my invention. 🩵🩷💛

[@beverleyreid563]

It's a blessing and a curse.

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

@@beverleyreid563 How so? 🩵🩷💛

[@DajaLatte]

LOL I had no idea FB and IG had gone down 😂😂😂😂

[@beverleyreid563]

That's hilarious. Sherri has the gift of gab.

[@evejkay6749]

Life was quite adventurous back then, and I'm glad I got to be a part of it, and we have gotten to witness things evolve over the years

[@TamarOneLove]

Yes, it was fun to not be so easily accessible too!

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Has social media helped you evolve? 🩵🩷💛

[@TheeAirrDesign]

Yep and ya still caught now even though you’re texting.

[@audreymo63]

We Read newspapers, called people, mailed cards/ letters, talked to the neighbors and strangers while waiting in line, in a lobby, etc 😊

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

🩵🩷💛 Now you can do more with your time while you're waiting at any street light, office, store etc....

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Because something will meet you there, Not a person, not a thing, my new invention will meet you there. 🩵🩷💛

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

My invention is a few years old. 🩵🩷💛

[@reezagibbons465]

And the Yellow Book . 📒

[@vienicestyles]

Yup!

[@companyemails4584]

This memory lane got me in my feelings in a good way! I sho' miss the ol' days!!

[@naahfam]

My gosh I miss the old days!! 😂😂

[@naahfam]

Who remembers passing handwritten notes during class? You had to sneak a sheet of paper out of your trapper keeper when the teacher wasn’t looking, write your little note, fold it into some cute origami then whisper to the person sitting next to you “Psst! Hey, pass this to so-and-so…” then sit there in anticipation and watched as your friend sneakily opened it and tried not to react out loud 😂 then they’d write something and pass it back to you… a whole written conversation could take place for hours! Sometimes days! oh, and if you got caught?! Ha! the teacher had no problem airing your “business” in front of everybody!

[@naahfam]

Or if you didn’t share classes with your friends, you’d write long letters at home or during class and hand deliver them whenever you saw them in the hallway… and if you were really fancy, you’d spray the paper with your favorite fragrance so they could smell you (especially if they were a crush). The experience was all-consuming! THIS, kids, was Original text messaging 😎

[@kenarco3765]

Exactly right I remember 😂😂😂 she was rude

[@SR-df6ji]

Not the trapper keeper 😂🤣 Shout out to you for remembering that. The trapper keepers were awesome. 😎

[@LELEEXPRESSIONS]

Oooh Chile these kids don't know nothing 😭🤣🤣🤣

[@carolharper4401]

They sure don’t!!😂😂

[@LELEEXPRESSIONS]

@@carolharper4401 if they lived in the 90s they would cry in the car 😭

[@twistedtee648]

The ugly cry too!​@@LELEEXPRESSIONS😂😂😂 😂😂😂

[@RaymondNYC1]

Sherri's so fun. This is one of her best monologues! lol

[@snow40741]

Yes the thick yellow pages and encyclopedia when you had to look up something...the public phones and the actual subway tokens! I loved my childhood!

[@barcelona12ist]

2 hours no social media?? I didn't even notice 😂

[@mrquenya]

exactly

[@lolaamazonia5218]

Funny enough I didn't either I was at work my mum called me after work freaking out that she couldn't log in into her Facebook 🤣🤣🤣

[@tipdryl]

I didn’t notice either 😂

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Wow, I spent a lot of time on my invention. The Social media's that are functioning, manufactured my invention without my permission. 🩵🩷💛

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

​​​@lolaamazonia5218 I'm sorry that happened to your mother. 😔 Not a laughing matter.. 🩵🩷💛

[@mdooms76]

With the exception of KZbin, I wish social media would go away.

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Wow, why? 🩷🩵💛

[@vienicestyles]

The joy is slamming the phone down on someone is priceless!! 😂😂🥹

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

That's bullying, not okay. 🩵🩷💛

[@natouly22]

Sherri thank you for reminding us those times before social media

[@trindellbrown]

Life was better before social media

[@freddiemontanez8461]

Yes it was.

[@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy]

In some ways but not in all ways.

[@soldjaslimm3157]

Faxx

[@deactivationdg]

amen

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Wow, that's sad to hear. That's my invention. 🩵🩷💛

[@vienicestyles]

Omg! I’m having flashbacks!! I am laughing out loud 😂🤣 literally!! 👩🏽

[@kallen868]

This was a hoot! 😂

[@m.layfette6249]

Sherri, you said that *69! 😂🤣 You took me back to my childhood.

[@karengutloff2004]

Hilarious!

[@Backpack16]

Sherri, you took us way back! I got caught, talking about someone, who I thought hung up. 411, asking the operator, to check and see if there is a conversation, or did someone leave the phone off the hook.😂😂😂

[@carolharper4401]

Sherri is hilarious!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 She is so right!! I remember those days. It was something.🤣🤣🤣 I miss those days. Thank you Sharing for sharing!! Sending you, Sherri and everyone here love, light and good deeds.❤️❤️🙏🙏☮️☮️

[@jesuslittlegirl2710]

LOL, OH MY GOD, YOU ARE FUNNY, WOW, OH MY LORD, AMEN HALLELUJAH GLORY TO GOD ✝️ 🙏 🙌

[@swaggerjagg22]

Im 27 and I am surprised that these people dont know where to get newspapers and everything sherry was talking about haah

[@sgladden39]

Phone books, pay phones

[@taurussho86]

That's really sad, but this is exactly where the government wants us. Just think how many kids learn from the internet. So many haven't touched a book. We will be doomed being this reliant on internet.

[@Bjbutterfly52]

Life was so much better before social media.😂😂😂😂

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Interesting, it's a Black Owned Invention. 🩵🩷💛

[@ElleBrOw]

Sheri is on point. I remember when public phones cost a dime✅ As far as beepers, you couldn’t page anyone if you had a rotary dial phone ☎️ Public phones didn’t want us using them to page others so they stopped displaying the phone number. Of course we found out if you pressed 954 the computer would 𝒔𝒂𝒚 the phone number 😂 Also some parents had a house 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌. Thanks for the memories

[@Bjbutterfly52]

Life was so much better before social media. 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Im

[@SharonDease]

Let your fingers do the walking through the YELLOW PAGES 😮😅😮😅😮

[@cherietaylorsmall5764]

I hope people's eyes are opened to the addiction and dependency. While social media has its benefits people should know how to live without it.

[@cutereyb.8030]

Back then..... if you have a beeper.... you look cool!.... loved them

[@andreamiller9748]

The Good old days!! lol

[@hasiawaring3710]

Get out there and see the mother nature Sherri you are fresh of breath air girlfriends ❤❤ ❤ from Mackay qld Australia 🇦🇺

[@lashendawest7509]

We love your show sherri

[@Cantetinza17]

Lol, I don't have either one, so I didn't miss it. 😆 Don't forget 1800Collect and giving the whole message as your name, so the receiver didn't get charged.

[@AlmamommieScott]

we did the stakeout too they were fun. my friend had a boy throw rocks at her cause the other girl was there.

[@jennifersutton3115]

Today it's nothing like the good year's in the past. People were more socialized. The price of food was a lot cheaper. Kid's was taught to respect the elderly. Television was fun and exciting. The sitcom shows. Like the Cosby Show. The Jefferson Show. Fact's of life. Three's Company. American Band Stand and Soul Train came on Saturday morning 🌅 people played spades and dominoes. The community gum was open. The boy's and girl's played basketball. The girl's jumped on the trampoline etc. It was safe to play outdoors.

[@m.layfette6249]

Forget about CVS and Walgreens, who remembers Excerd and Revco?!? Am I dating myself?!?

[@audreymo63]

Eckerds..but yes. Long time ago

[@marieposey8873]

Love this Sherri I know everything u was talking in understand ok 😂 those was the days wow time fly Sherri u truly are a good story teller love when u tell stories I’m all ears ❤❤ this took me back 😂❤

[@freddiemontanez8461]

I used to read the Parade.

[@Kiddo1814yeah]

I miss newspapers, magazines, theaters ,video tapes stores, record stores 😂

[@sabrinamcgee1815]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@kevinbouknight1308]

If she didn't take me back! I can remember the 1976 phone book that had the white AND yellow pages in it and the cover had all the different pictures of Ma Bell on it. Also, all area codes had a 1 or 0 as the middle digit.

[@user-ck6ch8mv4b]

Yup, my mama would pick up the phone on me all the time😂

[@sandranynj7118]

Oh Yes! *69 that was fun! And my brother would always get mad when the line was busy and come home and say, "I know it was you, stay off the phone all the time." And don't forget about calling Time and Temperature! ☎

[@tiffanymharris2986]

I remember the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s.

[@lmrobinson1209]

It was a good time. I so miss it.

[@neverendingcrafts4u]

We always had a giant phone book every year. Every address and phone number for the city/state was in this giant book. I think the white pages were for residential areas and the yellow pages were for businesses. If you wanted to find someone you had to search for their name in alphabetical order LOL

[@joycevaughn1803]

I remember I'm telling my age. I remember the party line

[@joycevaughn1803]

When you could hear the person on the other line.

[@teejack7804]

I'm not for social media, after my account was hacked, I shut everything down. In my opinion, things were better before everything went to social media. Lol, Sherry, I remember those good old days! I missed those times. 😊

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Interesting view. Have you used social media to brand a business of yours? 🩵🩷💛

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Did they fix your account? 🩵🩷💛

[@teejack7804]

@HomelessInAmerica2024 To your question, no, I never posted anything on social media except pictures or comments. Nothing major.

[@teejack7804]

@@HomelessInAmerica2024 I just deactivated my account and didn't give it a second thought.

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

@@teejack7804 Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. I'll let you know when mine is ready. 🩵🩷💛

[@lexis4490]

I miss TV Guides and News papers.

[@jonneysings2938]

My job still uses beepers. It’s crazy!

[@yvettethomas4329]

Hey from Mississippi. I thought it was off longer.

[@sherenay3109]

If you can remember any of the things Sherri mentioned, you know you are of the older persuasion.😮😅

[@ShadowHawk4219]

That not remembering phone numbers is a BIG problem. Imagine driving to see relatives in another state and you lose your phone. I know only my phone number. I make sure i have the person i'm visiting ( local and out of state) written on an index card cut to the size of a credit card with numbers on both sides.

[@renaemoten2821]

Does Willie Sinclair of the Milwaukee Sinclairs have a website??? I love that dress!!

[@AlmamommieScott]

lol remind me of my brother was talking to one of his chicks and would not get off i tried to take the phone he hit me with my doll i ran in the room and threw his clothes out of the window. he was on the phone 2 hours.

[@lulimau8478]

Sherri where did your stylist get those cocoa colored shoes?? Details please!!!❤❤

[@lexis4490]

We had photo albums, baby.

[@msd4743]

Omg. Do you all remember calling POPCORN??

[@NJunNJun1]

Remember when you could call the TIME to get the correct time. ⏲ Sherri is soooooo FUNNY!

[@yvettethomas4329]

My girlfriends did that to spy on our boyfriend.😂😂😂😂

[@treegee3143]

Thabkd yhis was good. We need to learn phone bumbers ahain also have paper phone book 😊

[@abcshoediva]

😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@K70sflowerchile]

GURL..."Men touching your hair..." I was in the Bahamas in my very first weave. Well, I met a Man who went to touch my hair and I jumped back and said, " Don't touch my hair! I was hit in the head with a hammer and in spots, I suffer with excruciating pain!" 😂😂😂 Don't ask why I said ," Hit in my head with a hammer. "😮😮 He didn't touch it😅😅Didn't want him to feel my tracks!😊

[@PamelaBluitt-zs2bh]

SOCIAL MEDIA MESSED UP EVERYTHING.😢

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

How so? 🩵🩷💛

[@PamelaBluitt-zs2bh]

@@HomelessInAmerica2024 People don't communicate like we did back in the day. I am 64 years old and Social Media has change the natural way of living. Families cannot have dinner nor supper because everybody is on their phones. It's just a mess. Thank God Jesus is coming back for his children. I be glad and pray that all mankind can be ready. What a glorious time it's going to be. 🙏🏽

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

@@PamelaBluitt-zs2bh Interesting view. Family time is important to me too. 🩷🩵💛

[@truthbetold1074]

lol...

[@gospel3067]

I like these flashbacks. BUT I'm reminded I was born in the 1900s 😢

[@msd4743]

1980 for me. I dont know what happened to the time! 😢😢

[@angelamoore-bu1ly]

Who are these co-host & hostess??? Where is Ms. Blue???

[@sparkle3000]

Meanwhile everybody laughs but buy those violent, fantasy, video games for your children then wonder why a twelve year old can shoot someone, they've been practicing. 🙄🤔 Parents come home and you're too tired to cook but on social media, ordering Grubb Hub. My mom cooked and I cooked every night and on Sundays, Mondays was left overs. Most parents today don't take their children to the park, ride bikes,, on the phone walking their children to school, hanging out with your girlfriends on the weekends while your children are alone as long as they don't bother you. How are they supposed to know about what we had and you don't teach them? People don't even teach their Black children Black History but always on the phone gossiping. We laughed but this is not funny. They were seriously having withdrawals and anxiety.

[@lolaamazonia5218]

Its sad life when you can't cope without social media for 2 hours, they lucky it wasn't 24 hours to a week

[@HomelessInAmerica2024]

Social media is a staple. That's why it's used daily. Try not to judge people who see it's value. 🩵🩷💛

[@Nickelback83]

Life before social media was THE BEST you go to the libary to research, play in the park, talk on the telephone for so long that you grabbed the dining chair to sit. I hate what we've become as a humanity after this antisocial media BS

[@bluebutterflywellness2273]

Oh, is that what happened?? I was trying to post my PR piece and was getting unexplained errors, so I simply sent it via email. 🤷🏽‍♀️ No biggie.

[@salyol7]

Chill you are really addicted to social media if this is a problem when it goes down for just a SHORT while.I would be more worried not getting my emails though.

[@mssshep]

I thought they stop making Newspapers because of Social Media🤷🏽‍♀️

[@AlmamommieScott]

i still work did't affect me

[@karenalexander9346]

I love your show a whole lot. You are a wonderful entertainer .However, could you show Afro-American who have their own long healthy, natural and perm hair ,when moving their wigs

[@deborahsmartt1704]

Penpal

[@keniascott-ul9ov]

Dictionary

[@eliranpinhasov5940]

1.being smart!✡️🕎🇮🇱

[@divaksa1660]

SHUT UP 🤫

[@eliranpinhasov5940]

@@divaksa1660 go touch electricity!🇮🇱

[@ElleBrOw]

Sunday newspaper was the go to for 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒔- My sister clipped 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔- oldest brother read the 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔 Dad wanted the 𝑻𝑽 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆 Mom read the paper end to end

[@vlz30177]

❤My grandchildren the same way, I just bought a badminton set to get them out the house to have fun. My grandson came to me with the birdie and badminton and asked how did it work. 🥹🤣😅😂🤣