Getting an Email

I guess it kind of makes sense considering how many people I lost contact with once I deactivated my Facebook account.

Video

*smash!*

MD

I'd happened to be in Japan right when MiniDisks were the newest, coolest thing ever, and my friends and I used to make each other mix-MDs instead of mixtapes. It died down pretty quickly with CD-RWs and whatnot (and I don't think it was much of a hit in other countries), but it brought back some memories when I found some old MDs and MD players while helping my parents pack for their move.

Cavewoman

All Japanese cell phones, no matter how shitty they are, come with their own email addresses, and a lot of Japanese people use their cell phone email as their main email address. (SMS is virtually useless in Japan.) It was super-convenient but I mostly ended up hating it because my work would email me 24/7 and expect me to write back instantaneously because I couldn't use the old "I was away from my computer all day" excuse. And no one (no one!) leaves their cell phone at home. I hated being superconnected all the time and I'm so happy to be in a country where it's pretty normal to have a shitty pay-as-you-go Nokia that can text and call for 9 cents a minute.