How have things changed since 2009?

[caravanette]

These expressions on social media:

E.g 'here's a picture of x person and it's a whole mood'

X is ' low key 'doing this/doing that

'Slay!'

[TreacherousPissFlap]

Well I was the mother of a 5yr old and now a 15yr old. Utterly bonkers

[VioletCharlotte]

So much. Life seemed much simpler in 2009!
Everyone is a medical expert courtesy of Dr Google.
Everyone has anxiety or some sort of mental health condition.
There are narcissists everywhere.
Everyone is vegan or has some kind of food intolerance.
We're totally dependant now on our phones. iPhones were only just being introduced in 2009.
Instant messaging/ Group chats have totally changed the way we interact with friends and the way we work.
We stream music and films rather than buying cd's/ DVD's
It's considered totally normal to queue up to spend £3 on a takeaway coffee.
Reduction in public services, NHS and education , so many cut backs.
Huge increase in poverty and homelessness.

I could go on....!

[caravanette]

Dollywilde thanks for the articles!

[BertieBotts]

Internet is weird now because everyone is fucking on it :o

It used to be like this little secret club for weirdos and geeks.

[BertieBotts]

YY, I had a phone with actual buttons in 2009. And a separate camera because phone cameras were shit.

[TheDarkPassenger]

Only one of my kids existed! And I didn’t even know who he was then!! That’s trippy.

Mostly though, MySpace, faceparty, every facial piercing going, the biggest, thickest jet black fringe ever, scene kids in general, tattoos that looked shit that everyone is now covering up, no one believing a boy at uni that a girl could have possibly sexually assaulted him (although I don’t think we’re enough ahead of this still!), no one going offit about royal babes.

[QueenOfWinterfell]

Vaping
Marker pen eyebrows
iPads
Netflix instead of DVDs
The size of biscuits, chocolate bars, etc shrinking

[PeterRouseTheFleshofMankind]

Only looking at Facebook on your laptop or PC.

I actually remember saying the words 'god, if I ever end up updating my Facebook from my phone, just shoot me!' It just seemed really sad to me that one would be so obsessed with Facebook that they would look at it from a mobile device!

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Phones weren't smart.

No Audible.
No streaming tv.
The only podcast was the Ricky Gervais one.

[alibongo5]

@Dollywilde - got as far as the first sentence before wryly smiling "Britain will be a strangely optimistic place at the start of the third decade of the millennium."
I don't think I have ever felt more pessimistic - just keeping my fingers crossed I am wrong about the GE and that I will be celebrating next Friday instead.

[caravanette]

BertieBotts OMG!! Yes I've still got my rarely used SEPARATE camera!

We stan a legend!!!!!!!!!

The word legend bring overused

[Kirigiri]

#threadgoals

[user1471448556]

Eyebrows
Brexit (I really hate Brexit!!!!)
NHS waiting lists
Women’s rights - now far more under attack

[Areyoufree]

Internet is weird now because everyone is fucking on it

[Dowser]

Gluten and dairy free has gone mainstream now.
2009 I was 6 months into a relationship with my pof date
Fast forward and we’ve been together 11 years and married for four
I just wish we weren’t so old and knackered.
Two grandchildren were still to be born.
Mums dementia was still manageable at home
We hadn’t even had our first holiday in Tenerife ..that was 2012 and we’ve easily been here 18 times.

We hadn’t bought our first caravan ...we are now onto our fourth and it’s a keeper...a static
Didn’t know the joy an iPad would bring me..the friends I would make online.most of whom I’ll never meet..and the photographs you can take and the memories you can record ....wow
9 year old kids weren’t getting phones for Christmas...

[Dowser]

Oh and YouTube...just brilliant..and it’s a career move too

[Dowser]

Oh and virtual coins...bit coin..no idea how that works
My grandson buys virtual weapons for a game he plays
Food banks..Soup kitchens...don’t remember any of those in 2009

[WellVersedInEtiquette]

When did friends reunited disappear?

[Actionhasmagic]

Influencers didn’t exist

[CuntyBumpkin]

I was 21 in 09 and I was just starting to enjoy the technilogal advances.

I had 50mb wifi and thought it was amazing!! Most people I knew still had 2mb. Now I have 250mg.

I had the very first iPhone but before that there was a phone called the Nokia N55. It had a huge screen and was advertised as a "smart" phone. Oh how we were wrong.
I worked in a phone shop in 07 when video calling was just coming in. Nobody saw the point and scoffed at the idea.

Twilight was out that year I think. Or the books were. Every girl I knew thought it was the romance of the century. Now I look at it and cringe and the control and red flags.

Nobody really knew what the point of Facebook was so you added your old school mates who you'd need seen for years and posted photos of your dinner. (not much has changed there!)

[Venger]

Carrier bags were free.

I had a BlackBerry phone and a separate MP3 player and camera, none of this 'one device to do it all' stuff.

We got wireless internet and it was very new, very fiddly to set up, and very temperamental. We had to ring BT to get more gain put on our phone line. My laptop was new so could connect to it wirelessly but DH's was older and he had to plug his in.

Before we had the wireless we had dial up. I can still hear the connection noise now.

[Witchofzog]

Men did not have huge beards. Popular interests etc are now called "a thing" Veganism is now mainstream. People are more vain with the constant selfies of some.

[caravanette]

Omg no beards!!!!

[DailyMailHater]

Not quite on theme with the tech ones but
I was told in late 2009 I probably couldn’t have children and was waiting for tests / investigations.....I now have a 9 year old! Appointment for first lot tests was in Feb 2010 where they found I was in very early stages of pregnancy

[BertieBotts]

Um, I didn't mean people were having sex on the internet, I meant it as a qualifier.

It's weird, even MN used to have this vague air of anonymity meaning privacy - now whatever you post might end up in the Sun.