While social media has the ability to allow us to "meet" hundreds, if not thousands, of new "friends," these relationships often aren't authentic. In the 90s we were forced to make friends with people face-to-face.
"It's always amazing to me that people will talk about having thousands of online friends or followers, but at the same time, they can't tell you the name of the person who lives next door to them," Curtis notes, adding that having online connections can be beneficial, they can't beat true and authentic friends.
Curtis believes that 80s and 90s kids were idealists with optimism. Many always had hope, and still do.
"Yes, the generations before Gen-Z sometimes glamorized the process of struggle for the sake of beauty, love, and many other things. There was indeed a willful ignorance as to how bad certain things were in life — discrimination, racism, gender bias — but at the core, there was hope and belief that the human spirit would prevail and endure."
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