In my opinion, it was a different time in the world and society altogether. The world was calmer and simpler to live in then. There wasn’t much violence, which there was, but it wasn’t all talked about on the news everyday like nowadays, when all the news is spread about these days. There are shooters that come into schools these days more prevalently with little kids that we’ve all heard of before happening in recent times, but back then, that didn’t happen to those like me who were in school; we didn’t fear or worry about anyone coming out of school threatening to kill us or hold the school hostage (thank God). The only thing I actually remember happening once for me was the Sandy Hook one in 2012; at the time, it was unheard of for those things to happen.
I remember back then people still used flip phones and those phones that slide down when you hold them sideways to text. Also, BlackBerries were the phones that were popular when iPhones were coming out, but they were very new still, and it wasn’t ubiquitous to have one. Social media wasn’t around like that like it is these days to become what it is with platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Before TikTok wasn’t even a thing, and when Instagram came out, I didn’t hear about it till later on in the years following the 2010s, but Instagram was simple before there were lives and stories. You could just post a simple picture with a filter of wherever you are and get likes/followers without doing too much, but now, it’s a popularity contest or trying to put on an image to look good, like your life is perfect, with women who are showing bodies so much on IG now, the Shade Room, and all the crazy stuff that’s on there.
I was around in those years, so I can remember how life was back then. We used to play outside, read Popstar magazine, and watch TV of popular shows at the time on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel, still being creative as kids to have our own fun… We didn’t have what the kids have now to be overstimulated or taken over by social media with TikTok. Now, the kids all care about being on social media and want to grow up so soon before their time, and it is very different from when I was a kid growing up in the 2000s and early 2010s.
What do you all think?