Digital immigrant

So I had drinks with a friend last week and we had the conversation that I have so very often with some people: why is it that everyone else has so many friends and we don’t? Or rather, why is it that there are so many people around us — at restaurants, putt putt courses, and shopping malls — who are ‘accompanied’ by friends or family, and we often end up doing things alone? Because my friend and I do have friends. We probably have an average number of friends whom we can call to celebrate that promotion (I’m still working on getting mine) or on whom we can rely to go see a movie once a week or so.

But we feel it is not adequate. We feel that we should hang out with a different friend every night, and especially at the weekends.

I think part of the problem is the media. We watch Sex and the City and think we should all have 3 friends with whom to have breakfast — every single day of the week. And we want our posse to be as stylish, sexy, intelligent and independent as the SATC bunch. So we feel a bit abnormal when the posse doesn’t appear.

So I was thinking. Could it perhaps be that those accompanied people we see at restaurants, putt putt courses, and shopping malls also feel the same? Could it be that those accompanied people also only team up with a friend once or twice a week? And that you will find them lounging in front of the television for the rest of the week?