Post by slashpop on Jun 7, 2020 3:04:59 GMT 10
I think this gets over looked and under discussed a lot. I think the mid 2000s was the last gasp of people socializing more often without it being centered or connected to online activity and social media. This also includes more willingness to meet people spontaneously and hanging out for the sake of it more often.
In the 90s it was like everyone in the neighborhood knew each other and was constantly hanging or doing stuff 24/7 within the area you were in. People hung out just because you lived closed by and traded info more often even if you weren’t friends and you were likely to know at at least number of people in the area just because they lived close by.
I know things today aren’t usually like that.
There was this intense sense of boredom that just didn’t exist in the internet era at times that is hard to describe now which was a reason people would just go outside and talk to each other.There was more adventurousness, arcade/mall/parking lot dwelling, biking etc that was more or a result of burning hours and trying to pass the time that doesn’t seem to exist with the luxury of today’s tech and risk factors
I think the mid 2000s had some of this left, even though it was slowly starting to die in the Y2k Era , and seemed largely gone by the late 2000s early 2010s.
What do you remember of mid 2000s real life social culture?
In the 90s it was like everyone in the neighborhood knew each other and was constantly hanging or doing stuff 24/7 within the area you were in. People hung out just because you lived closed by and traded info more often even if you weren’t friends and you were likely to know at at least number of people in the area just because they lived close by.
I know things today aren’t usually like that.
There was this intense sense of boredom that just didn’t exist in the internet era at times that is hard to describe now which was a reason people would just go outside and talk to each other.There was more adventurousness, arcade/mall/parking lot dwelling, biking etc that was more or a result of burning hours and trying to pass the time that doesn’t seem to exist with the luxury of today’s tech and risk factors
I think the mid 2000s had some of this left, even though it was slowly starting to die in the Y2k Era , and seemed largely gone by the late 2000s early 2010s.
What do you remember of mid 2000s real life social culture?
