I am a gamer from WAAAY back when I built my first Z80 (that's a hopped up 8080 from Zilog). I know that might age me a little bit... :-p
I would say that social media has changed everything, but it had all changed before that. Gas prices were going up, people were driving less and going out less.
So, can you compare just ok friendships with real people, to great conversations with great people that are only online? I don't know. As an introvert, i find it worlds better.
Imagine never getting to talk about parts of your life because it was either considered weird or just was way over your real-life friend's heads? Online you can find groups of people that are just as geeky, or just as... almost anything as you are.
Like Zeke above, i consider it my responsibility to keep things balanced.
Truth be told, I loaded tapes into a vic20 and coded command line games in basic but I figured you can only go back so far without sounding like "walked 10 miles to school in the blinding snow....uphill both ways"
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