Certain trends lately remind me of how old I'm getting and how young people are so rapidly changing.
I recently deleted my Facebook account, sick of the drama, and told my friends they could just email me. They never do... and after asking one why, he said that email was too much of a hassle. Email. A hassle...
I realized recently you don't have to use www anymore before a URL. Yet I still type it in... every time.
I told my girlfriend she should make a mix tape for our car trip on the weekend. She didn't know what a mix tape was. She's only 5 years younger than I.
Despite calling it a mix tape, I actually burn them onto CDs. I was told people don't even really do that anymore. Some new computers don't even have disk drives!
When I told my girlfriend it was the anniversary of D-Day she didn't know what that was.
A few years ago I had feelings for a woman from Germany who was in her early 20s so I wrote her a romantic letter and mailed it to her. She had never received a hand written letter before, let alone one of that nature.
I have a habit of listening to the radio for news and a young friend asked me condescendingly why I bothered. I had to remind him, when I was growing up, access to the internet was rare, watching TV all day was frowned upon and the radio, which was a very common, convenient outlet for information, was often the only cheap outlet for music or world news in a small town of 2000 folks.
I still say "folks"
I haven't watched TV in months.
The idea of buying MP3s baffles me. The idea of buying an MP3 player baffles me. If I am going to buy music, I at least better get a booklet or a vinyl sleeve or something I can add to a collection and spending hundreds on a tiny device that can only play music for yourself and doesn't have proper speaker hookups seems crazy.
I'm getting old... this sucks.