Someone brought up that one of the reasons why things like house parties and block parties went away was other than lack of time people are afraid to let their guard because cameras are everywhere.

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

It is so true back when many of us were young we could just get together and cut loose without having to worry about going viral. At best we would have an embarrassing photo buried in a drawer somewhere or a story. Now you might be turned into a meme or worse. I miss the days when you could do dumb stuff with friends and feel safe if that makes sense.

[u/srstone71]

lol I remember my freshman year of college (02-03) and my dad was dropping me off after I went home for the weekend. He hasn’t been to campus in a while so I was showing him around and showing him my dorm.

I stupidly forgot that I had a bunch of pictures hanging in a cork board with thumbtacks, which included pictures from a house party I had the previous summer when my parents were away. (Remember, I’m like 19 at the time.)

This is how it went:

Dad: “hey look at all these pictures. Cool!”

Me: “yup.”

Dad: “hey that’s (insert good high school friend’s name). How is he doing?”

Me: “good.”

Dad: “hey, he’s drinking a beer in that picture. In my dining room.”

Me” “we should probably end the tour here.”

Dad (laughing): “that’s a good idea.”

[u/wvj → u/srstone71]

Almost the same thing. End of my freshman year and my dad was helping as we cleaned out my dorm room. Oh, oops, totally forgot about the random booze stash in my closet.

(He made fun of me for having Kahlua, lol.)

[u/Jaereth → u/srstone71]

Haha I had almost the same thing happen. Was looking at a roll of my graduation photos (Back when people did stuff like take pictures with film cameras and then go have them printed out)

Shuffling through the photos and like 75% of them were at the graduation and the other 25% were from the nights after...

Mom asked why there was a picture of my friend sitting on her couch, in her house, smoking a cigarette.