Yeah I was just scrolling through the 'influencers' forum on Tattle and I've heard of about 10% of them haha, think they're all YouTube and TikTok. In our day there was no such thing as an influencer- people just spend all day on screens these days.One thing I really miss from my teens / early 20s is actually having to go on the computer to get online - getting home from school / work, logging in to MSN to chat with friends or pissing about on the internet for a few hours and then you'd log off and do something else afterwards. Now we're literally always 'online' and use our phones for everything - I definitely have a bit of a phone addiction at this point and I don't like it!
On another note, who else was obsessed with The Hills?? I feel like it was so influential at the time, Lauren Conrad was the reason I started doing winged eyeliner and I still do it nearly every dayI'd also do my hair with 2 pieces twisted back like she did haha! Oh and I convinced myself that one day I'd move to LA because they made it look like such a cool place to be!
Oldies always say the 70s, 80s etc was the best era but I liked ours- there was just a smidge of technology, still plenty of outside interaction but communities to meet people and things to do and the opportunity to see the rest of the world/people's intimate lives through MTV etc. Imagine living in the 70s where all you could do was watch the one film on TV, watch the same video you'd seen like 10 times, read a book, do a crossword/board game or play outside in freezing England haha. There was no chance to see what teens your age did in America for example. There wasn't an eating out culture, the first real chain coffee shop appeared in like 2000 I think.
another memory unlocked
