Modern friendship

This is what 8-9 year old boys do as friends in 2014:

At least they are playing video games while physically in the same room with each other. A couple of months ago, 1st Brother played Minecraft with a friend online..and the friend lives ACROSS THE STREET ("We can each have our own big screen" was the explanation). That and it would have been hard to walk 40 steps to the other person's house, I guess.