How Friends may have influenced a whole generation

Watching the show again gave me a whole new perspective on my own generation’s behavior

For the past several months, I’ve been deeply entrenched in the TV series Friends. Feeling a sense of nostalgia about the “good ol’ days” before technology ruled our lives, I began with season one, following the experiences of six friends who are very close to one another — both literally and figuratively, living in New York City in the mid-to-late nineties.