Is it normal that i feel like i was born at the wrong age?

Really? I always thought with technology in the state it is in right now that I was born 20 years too early.

I really don't buy that technology is prohibiting you from hanging out with friends. It's kind of like hearing that old teenage lament that "there is nothing for kids to do in this town."

The truth is that there wasn't anything for kids to do in this town 20 years ago either, so we invented our own fun. We came up with our own ideas and pursuits. In essence, we found ways to entertain ourselves instead of waiting for someone else to entertain us.

If you want to hang out with your friends, come up with an idea for a social gathering. Host a movie night. Meet up at a museum. Hike a nature trail. Organize a work bee for an elderly, handicapped, or ill friend.

If you wait for someone else to initiate a social gathering, you may be waiting for a long time.

Well, ahem, as a teenager from the 80s I can tell you that our social lives revolved around organised groups eg. scouts, sport, or locally held discos or roller blading.

The general rule from our parents was, "It's not raining, get outside."

The emphasis was to get out of their way to let them do chores - otherwise we got some of the chores to do! They also have a lot of free time now too with technology devising labour saving devices.

You are certainly right to a certain extent coz even my friends from primary school 4-10yo who lived in my area, are still my very dear friends. We played in the streets or in the park, we had no bullying or jealousy - coz no-one had anything of any value :o)

Unfortunately you can't turn back time but now that you've recognised the problem, you and your friends can do something about it. I don't allow the computer or TV on in my house until after 6pm so maybe you and your friends could do something similar. ie. meet up between certain times on a regular basis.

Good luck in changing the world.

God bless, I feel this way almost every day. (I'm 23). Even though I've broken away a little from the whole social networking frenzy, it's impossible for it to have no effect on my life. 90% of the work I have to do in college is on the computer.i have a headache almost every day that I have learned to ignore, which seems to be almost entirely related to bright lcd's, web searching and endless information hoarding. I feel physically exhausted all the time, but suffer from chronic sleeping issues because I cant for the life of me shut my brain off. Ever since the first time i remember hearing the phrase,"the president tweeted.." on the world wide news (maybe 2 years ago), I've never wished for simplicity more in my entire life.

sometimes, I wish I was an 80's kid too. I like current technology, but I really like stuff from the 1980s, and i have a lot of 80's things, (even my cars) sometimes, i wonder what it would have been like to be a kid n the 1980s. I would have wanted to be born in 1972 (I was born in '92) so I would be a teen in the 80's.

I was born in 2000, ( yes, I'm only 12) but I wish I was born in the. Very late 70s, so I could be a kid all the way through the 80s. And it wouldn't be awkward if I said I like the NES, (I hate modern gaming) and I could watch TMNT during it's golden age in the late 80s &early 90s.

If you were a teenager in the 80's, yes computers did exist, but this technology was still in it's infancy. Social networking sites did not yet exist (as you know them). If you were a teenager in the 90's, social networking sites were just being developed and probably would have not been much use to you.

defense mechanism for an insecurity.

I feel the same sometimes. If I was born way earlier, I'd wanna meet Al Pacino when he was in his prime. All I can do is hope time travel exists someday.

And not to mention social networking didn't exist until the 2000s. As much as I enjoy those sites, they have caused a lot of pointless drama. And not to mention cyber bullies who act tough over the net when they're probably weak in real life.

Sometimes I feel this way too. Its normal.

Normal. Sometimes I think that I should have been born in the '70s because I have the feeling that I'd have been cool as fuck in the '80s (because I am lame now).

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