Do you remember life before the internet?
I can remember life before the internet. I was born in 1969 and was a child of the 70s and a teenager of the 80s. I feel that this is a wonderful time to be young in Australia. I can remember playing with the family dog 🐕 in the backyard and skipping rope. There were only landline phones and no devices.
There were movies aimed at teenagers in the 80s, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off , St Elmos Fire, etc. They don’t make coming of age movies now like they did then.
There was still bullying, but it was more upfront and not as cowardly and insidious as online bullying today. Thank God Facebook didn’t exist in the 80s.
Children spent so much time outdoors in the fresh air, and we all knew our neighbours. I think today with all our devices, we have lost our sense of community and don’t know our neighbours like we did back then
I look back with fondness of growing up in such a great time when computers 🖥 were around, but technology didn’t control our lives to the extent that it does now. I am glad I grew up when I did.
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Beautifully said and expressed Kaye. I agree totally with your sentiments…..life was rich with the simple things.People stopped and talked on the street … children played outdoors for hours.We weren’t forever distracted by what people were saying,doing or wearing back then, because we didn’t watch daytime television or have our mobile phones.We have a lot to be grateful for as we look back and my life is full of rich memories….now we have a duty to ensure we bring back some of those simple pleasures into day to day life with our own children and Grandchildren.
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Thank you for your kind feedback Barbara 😊
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