Beautiful photo! Here in Buenos Aires everyone has a balcony hahaha, considering most of the population is descendant of Italians and Spanish folks, it makes a lot of sense. I think it's ok if people change the medium of their message, the problem to me is when the content is changed, when they lose interest in each other.
Thanks for sharing!
True, I know there are many people descendant of Italians there! Here in my city there not so much balconies, because it's a small city, but in Italy there are some cities where you can see many balconies in the small alleys ^_^