I grew up in a third world country, pre-Google, and with a rotary phone. I also played with real kids, climbed trees, rode my bicycle, played contact sports unsupervised, and learned how to kiss under a blackberry bush. To figure things out we had to make a trip to the library to look something up, talk to people who may know, trial and error, socially network in real time, have live conversations and look others in the face. The more people you knew, the more information and ideas you could get, the more help you’d have figuring things out and getting what you need. This was particularly helpful in the relationship domain. Not only did we constantly interrogate each other gathering intel on others, but every one of us was ready to volunteer what we knew about the guy or the girl one of us was about to start seeing. We had elders to dispense sage advice around every turn and any time. We had jokes about every kind of relationship situation. People told stories about and to each other all the time.
Don't Google it!
Don't Google it!
Don't Google it!
I grew up in a third world country, pre-Google, and with a rotary phone. I also played with real kids, climbed trees, rode my bicycle, played contact sports unsupervised, and learned how to kiss under a blackberry bush. To figure things out we had to make a trip to the library to look something up, talk to people who may know, trial and error, socially network in real time, have live conversations and look others in the face. The more people you knew, the more information and ideas you could get, the more help you’d have figuring things out and getting what you need. This was particularly helpful in the relationship domain. Not only did we constantly interrogate each other gathering intel on others, but every one of us was ready to volunteer what we knew about the guy or the girl one of us was about to start seeing. We had elders to dispense sage advice around every turn and any time. We had jokes about every kind of relationship situation. People told stories about and to each other all the time.