During those times, there were no such things as Wifi and “unlimited” internet connection, oh and Bluetooth just came out. We used something called infrared on our old phones. Sending an MMS meant registering and actually paying thrice the amount of an SMS. If you wanted pictures from your friend’s phone, and didn’t want to pay extra, it meant going to your friend’s house and actually having to send it via infrared or if you were lucky enough, a phone that had Bluetooth. Did I forget to mention that other phones didn’t even used to have cameras?
I sort of miss the old days when the internet was not such a big deal and that not having it meant going to your friend’s house and actually spending time to talk, look for activities to do and actually have fun doing it. Today’s world doesn’t necessarily give the importance of the physical aspect or the true meaning of social interaction. Social connections have less meaning, and attachments seem to diminish its purpose. People have become less and less able to interact like real humans should, almost all emotions excluded. The excitement has shifted from seeing and speaking in real form, to expecting an update online where everyone else is linked anyway. The value of “special” has decreased ten times the original meaning, and interactions have become narcissistic.
What has the world come to? Perhaps it is for the better that humans are not as attached to some things than we were before. Perhaps it is much better that we are capable of letting things go easier than it was before. But to what end will we lose our attachments? As the evolution of technology precede over the origin of human connection, some are able to adapt in positivity and excel, and others get stuck in the meaningless, narcissistic state.