> I miss knowing how my online friends are really doing these days. Being able to go through their life, their personal updates, the ups and the downs. What? T

> I miss knowing how my online friends are really doing these days. Being able to go through their life, their personal updates, the ups and the downs. What? That was horrible! The simpletons talking about every mood change, or publicly plotting juvenile retribution against an ex-lover, or a respected keynote speaker who was previously isolated to that role now inviting you to Mafia Wars I deleted my first “everyone I met everywhere” Facebook in 2008. Allowing a new bare bones one in 2012 which is merely deactivated now. This article is a mere nostalgic highlight reel, ironic how it complains then about instagram Yeah ok, people in their 30s complain about selfies, selfie sticks, pictures of food, ephemeral stories, vertical videos, and older people using social media. They’re lost in between a dichotomy demographics that do not care and who these current networks are made for. I would say the delayed gratisfaction is bigger component to the prior experience: planning, coordinating, and uploading just a few photos from different sources much later. The next day even, if your friends were tech savvy and had fast connections. The dopamine of social interaction coming in bursts, and the anticipation of the possibility having its own allure.