The Kid's posts in the last few pages make me really glad I grew up before social media as such really existed.
It can still be a sort of weird though.
like someone you haven't talk to in literally decades reaching out and the first thing they do is launch into talking about sex - I don't pick up on clues very well so you're going to have to be blunt - are you down to pound or not?
but what really fucked me up is after my most recent move, when I was digging through an old box, and I saw an old postcard from decades ago from someone where she's excited to currently be in the uk and going to see laurent garnier, and then I made the dumb ass mistake of looking her up
she was one of the first people i met on the internet back in 94 through irc - we sort of had a connection and I went to her city to visit a few times, but for various reasons and miscommunications and apparently misunderstandings, it didn't go anywhere
anyway, she's now an artist of some note that's been featured in various magazines and such, and has a nice little family and everything, and weirdly, coincidentally lives in a country that I used to talk about a lot wanting to visit some day - and it's not that I even have feelings for her because I knew back then it would never work because I wasn't her intellectual equal - just something about it really hit me about how great she has it and I'm still the same completely useless schmuck that i've always been