As a kid I had my select few friends who I’d hang out with all the time. I still have the same friends but the way we communicate has changed so drastically it’s like the past 15 years was a different era rather than a different generation.
I remember being 5, and my mate Bri and I being completely inseparable, we’d hang out everyday as long as one of our parents was able to drop us off at the others house. And we’d always communicate through the landline phone, because that was all we had at the time, and it worked. We had memorised each other’s numbers because our numbers were only two digits different, which we found awesome and a reason why we were destined to be best friends. We’d call each other mainly to figure out a time to meet up and then just meet up and spend some awesome time together. It was great, and really some of the fondest memories of my childhood.
But now, we’re both 19, not 5 anymore, and we’ve got things like smartphones, texting, Facebook and What’s App, and things couldn’t be more different.
Phones were what we used to organise a time to meet, not the actual medium through which we would meet. But that’s mainly what we do now. Rather than calling and scheduling a time to meet, most communication and time spent together is on this smartphone via texting, tweeting and Facebook messaging. We still meet up of course. But why meet up everyday when you can just speak to each other from the comfort of your own home, without really having to leave the house? I wouldn’t say the change is bad, it’s great being able to communicate so freely and easily, but the best part of my time with Bri when we were 5 was the physical and real hours we spent together. Communicating through technology, so detached from reality, isn’t the same, and I long for those days in my childhood when it was just Bri and I hanging out in person for hours on end.
I remember being 5, and my mate Bri and I being completely inseparable, we’d hang out everyday as long as one of our parents was able to drop us off at the others house. And we’d always communicate through the landline phone, because that was all we had at the time, and it worked. We had memorised each other’s numbers because our numbers were only two digits different, which we found awesome and a reason why we were destined to be best friends. We’d call each other mainly to figure out a time to meet up and then just meet up and spend some awesome time together. It was great, and really some of the fondest memories of my childhood.
But now, we’re both 19, not 5 anymore, and we’ve got things like smartphones, texting, Facebook and What’s App, and things couldn’t be more different.
Phones were what we used to organise a time to meet, not the actual medium through which we would meet. But that’s mainly what we do now. Rather than calling and scheduling a time to meet, most communication and time spent together is on this smartphone via texting, tweeting and Facebook messaging. We still meet up of course. But why meet up everyday when you can just speak to each other from the comfort of your own home, without really having to leave the house? I wouldn’t say the change is bad, it’s great being able to communicate so freely and easily, but the best part of my time with Bri when we were 5 was the physical and real hours we spent together. Communicating through technology, so detached from reality, isn’t the same, and I long for those days in my childhood when it was just Bri and I hanging out in person for hours on end.
A picture Bri drew of us when we were 5 (:
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