{"id":9873,"date":"2006-01-29T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T08:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/29\/new-people-arent-anymore\/"},"modified":"2011-09-23T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T08:21:41","slug":"new-people-arent-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/29\/new-people-arent-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"New people aren’t anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other day I met a few new people in the bar. Most of them were younger than me, but not all of them had IT-related jobs and hobbies. While we were exchanging contact information, I kept thinking about the technology and how it affects our lives.<\/p>\n

15 years ago, when meeting new people name and place of work or address were sufficient. People were asking for a phone number, but not everyone had it. Contacting a person was complicated. Espeically if he didn’t have the phone number (like I). Even if he had a phone number, one had to find out the appropriate hours to call.<\/p>\n

10 years ago phones became more widespread. But email was still a new thing for most people. Not everyone had it.<\/p>\n

5 years ago mobiles started to jump in. Approrpiate hours became pretty much obsolete – call during the daylight of the timezone in question and you’ll be fine. Email got more common. Instant messengers became popular too.<\/p>\n

This year I met a lot of new people. And, although, most of them were from my area, I had a choice of mobile phone, email, and ICQ number to choose from in order to contact them.<\/p>\n

That other day though was a totally other story. Everyone called each other on the mobile to save the number. Than we continued with ICQ numbers. Than with blog URLs (many people use LiveJournal<\/a> these days). A notebook computer appeared out of nowhere and we connected to pub’s free WiFi access point and looked through each other’s blogs and journals. Within 15 minutes or so everyone know a whole lot of everything about each other – hobbies, interests, age, lifestyle, who travelled where and when, etc. We saw a bunch of pictures and even some common friends, although we were from different parts of the world.<\/p>\n

When we left from the pub two hours later, I had a feeling that we knew each other pretty good. Missing bits could be easily reconstructed by studing all the available information. Or talking on the Internet. Directly. Any time.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter anymore where you live. All you need to have is a mobile phone (which supports SMS), instant messenger account (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! – whatever works for you), and an online journal (standalone blog or LiveJournal<\/a> or both). Interestingly, it’ll take you less than an hour to get all three. The world is definetely getting smaller…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The other day I met a few new people in the bar. Most of them were younger than me, but not all of them had IT-related jobs and hobbies. 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