I Want My MTV

As I was driving around town the other day, I heard a few songs on the radio that brought me back in time..."Ordinary World" by Duran Duran, "Hero" by Mariah Carey and "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum.
These songs brought me back to my childhood bedroom on Edgewood Road. They brought me back to my middle school days when I would watch MTV in my bedroom and watch music videos while on the telephone with school friends...the same friends that I saw all day in the classroom. I just couldn't get enough of them, I suppose.
Anyways, these songs took me back to a really fun, carefree time in my life. Not since those days have I been on the phone with someone for hours and didn't really even speak to them. Whose idea was it to call a friend, put on the same television channel and just sit there, essentially silent, watching TV "with" them? Why did we do this? How did my parents allow me to tie up the phone line for hours upon hours every single evening?
I long for those carefree days again. I long for a night like that...a night where I wasn't responsible for doing laundry, doing the dishes or going grocery shopping. Back in 1991, my biggest worry was call waiting interrupting the call.
Assuming MTV still played music videos and that houses still had land lines, would these types of behaviors still be happening? Have cell phones and Teen Mom ruined this for all teenagers?
Oh, how times have changed.