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veen  ·  4117 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My first entry for the Huffington Post

Well, when I look at my generation, it's already ever-connected. Whatsapp is installed on 80% of the smartphones in the Netherlands, and used by nearly everyone I know. Late for class? Send an app to a classmate to let them know. Instant connections and communications, to and from nearly everyone. There are often days where I don't look at my phone for a while and have >100 missed messages (mostly in groupchats).

But I have multiple friends without a smartphone. When we want to incorporate them in conversations, we need to contact them through other mediums, hoping they read it in time. It has happened that we wanted to plan something and couldn't get hold of a friend. They aren't left out but often missing out on conversations.