- In a lot of ways, I'm glad I grew up when I did. When I talk with young co-workers and friends, I think they missed, they missed a lot of uncertainty growing up that I was lucky enough to have.

- I feel like my generation doesn't know how to actually communicate with a person or get in touch with a person if they're not using social media or calling or texting.

- It was really nice growing up with a sense of like, these are trees, these are people. I have to go and interact with them.

- I can see the difference between life before the internet and life after the internet.

- I got the see the cusp of a lack of internet technology into how it's sort of evolved and became integrated into our lives.

- I can't imagine not living without the internet. I don't wanna live without the internet. It's like a whole section of my life.

- Well, people pay more attention to each other, at least in my memory they did.

- For me, I do appreciate the internet. I'm not against it by no means, because of my age group. But I believe we had something very special.

- I'm glad I grew up when I did, because when I see people growing up now, I'm just, I'm relieved that there is still, like, human communication.

- The uncertainty of when you called a young woman that maybe you're interested in, you had a phone number for. And you called that phone number and you didn't know who was gonna answer, if anyone. Sometimes no one would answer, sometimes she would answer. That was great, that was the ideal scenario. Sometimes a parent would answer. Worst case, you got an older brother, that was, you may even hang up then. And now, kids, you know, they don't have that. You text and communicate through all sorts of different DMs and Snapstreaks and whatever. And you don't have to worry about the older brother picking up the phone when you're just trying to call to see what's up.

- So a lot of the... I think a lot of the fallout from the proliferation of the internet and the accessibility to the internet, I can sort of put a stopgap. I know that life happens outside of my house, away from my keyboard.

- Yeah, I guess, 'cause like, I grew up, like, middle school, it was really like, instant messaging was really popular. I'm really awkward at that age. So I kind of, like, I don't know, curbed some of the awkwardness. Does that make sense? Like, there's a lot of not face-to-face interaction, 'cause we had internet and stuff. So I guess I liked that. That makes me awkward. I don't know.

- I was born in '86 and I was still like, on AOL instant messenger as a teen. But it wasn't nearly the same kind of interconnectivity that we have today. And I still remember a time before internet. I didn't really get internet in my household until I was 13, so obviously, I have a memory of a time before internet existed. And it's interesting to just have that, as well as to see the evolution of things from AOL instant messenger after school to now, we have full-blown, totally integrated social media into our lives.

- I'm glad the way I'm growing up now, because it's so much easier connecting with friends, especially like, if they live in California or they move. You can Facetime them, message them, it's so much easier.

- I hate to sound like one of these people who's like, oh, kids these days, and they can't keep themselves entertained. But I'll tell you, when your parents didn't give you an iPad or an iPhone, then you had to make do with whatever you had in front of you. So I was forced to socialize with other kids and you know, maybe I would've been a hermit as kid now, because I didn't have to go out. But I can't just sort of look down into a screen and you know, see what is in front of me. And I'm very grateful for the way I grew up, because you know, it forces sort of a resiliency that I don't know a lot of kids have nowadays. But you know, I hated homework like, nobody's business, so having the internet available would've been really nice.

- In what ways am I glad I grew up when I did? So actually, I've had this conversation with other people in my generation, which is, I guess, broadly Gen X, pretty solidly in the middle of that. And I think a lot of people my age feel like we had one foot in the analog world. You know, the world that people from the '50s and '60s and '40s. You know, a world of objects, books. You know, going outside, kind of free-range life sort of thing. But we've also had probably half our lives in the digital world, so. You know, there's something interesting about that. You've seen things change. You know, maybe you're not digital native, so you can kind of see both sides of the equation.

- That's hard to say, because there's so many nice things now that I can do. I guess everything just was a little slower beforehand and that was nice, I think. You could value everything a little bit more.

- I'm glad I grew up... Well, I was born in 1952 and I'm glad I grew up then in a way, because we did not experience constant stimulation. There was more peace and quiet, which also meant there were lower expectations. People would write letters. You'd read them, you'd think about them for a few days and then, you'd write back. Nobody expected an instant answer.

- I think it depends on the person. If you're a person who really lives behind the screen, like, let's say a gamer or someone who really sits there and doesn't go out and interact with people, but has these relationships with people through whatever interface they're using, then it really shows when they're in person, 'cause you can see they're uncomfortable or like, they don't know how the real-life social cues. But if you're someone who just uses it for communication or like, to say, hey, where should we meet up, then I think you'll be normal, socially.