The article explores the disconnection between generations regarding friendship and social connections in contemporary society. A concerned parent expresses confusion over their child's choice of friends, emphasizing nostalgia for past practices where familiarity was built through shared experiences and memories. The narrative highlights the differences between the past and the present, particularly in how people form relationships without relying on mutual connections or past encounters. The parent struggles to comprehend their child's social circles, reflecting on how modern advantages in technology may have changed interpersonal dynamics.
In your grandmother's time, you couldn't compare life-tracking data with them and find out where you'd seen them before. You had to muddle through with what you personally remembered.
The world is so large, and yet the acceptable parts of it so small. I thought you knew that. I thought we taught you, before we sent you off to university.
It's just that I don't understand. You know Mummy wants to understand you always, pet. Help me understand.
To choose all your friends with no previous contact overlaps, what else do you call that? I can't see it any other way.
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