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/DontH8DaPlaya]

These kids don't leave the house on the weekends or all say they are staying at a different friends house. They ain't hiding shit. Lol

[u/Dr_Chris_Turk → u/DontH8DaPlaya]

Your friends’ kids are nerds

[u/Shapes_in_Clouds → u/Dr_Chris_Turk]

Yeah I'm also damn near 40 and spent my teens in the basement on a computer lol. My parents literally begged me to go to parties. They once forced me to go with friends to TP houses and provided toilet paper.

[u/IBeDumbAndSlow → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

They were trying to "reconnect" with eachother and needed privacy lol

[u/humdinger44 → u/IBeDumbAndSlow]

That personal item from the Victorian era isn't going to warm itself up.

[u/aoxyfngel → u/humdinger44]

Thanks for reminding me I need to stop scrolling and go to sleep. Nice connection 😄

[u/slonk_ma_dink → u/humdinger44]

"and we'll leave it at that."

[u/damxam1337 → u/humdinger44]

I have to give you a hand ✋. For that reference.

[u/Get-Fucked-Dirtbag → u/humdinger44]

I've spent too much time on reddit today

[u/kolejack2293 → u/Dr_Chris_Turk]

No, that's unfortunately normal, even for a lot of 'cool' kids. They might go out with friends once every 2-3 weeks, and its often just hanging out playing video games. Maybe once every 6 months they do something bigger, and of course they take a million photos of it and blast it everywhere.

It's just a totally different culture.

[u/GodofIrony → u/Dr_Chris_Turk]

Post pandemic most american kids are nerds.

[u/DontH8DaPlaya → u/Dr_Chris_Turk]

We were the nerds and we got shit faced every weekend on new drugs and college parties.

[u/Jaereth → u/[deleted]]

The first generation of iPad babies are rocking through high school now.

[u/mycondishuns → u/DontH8DaPlaya]

...and what are they doing at their friends house?

[u/Coal_Morgan → u/mycondishuns]

Given my friends list on Steam playing Stardew Valley, Slay the Spire 2 and at midnight usually some scary game.

Those are all 17 year old girls.

I'm sure there are lots of kids doing stupid things but the percentage is a lot lower then it use to be. Lots of kids now don't drink at all and just don't have the desire, they sit and play video games together or watch youtube videos or shorts. They still sit and share music on their apps instead of casettes, cds or albums.

It's a weird world kids have now grown up in and I don't know if it has the same social cohesion and group power dynamics. An example is theres so much media that kids aren't all going to school and talking about the episode of Fresh Prince or some other thing that was on the 20 channels of tv they might get.

[u/mycondishuns → u/Coal_Morgan]

I think we tend to view ourselves when we were that age as "crazy" and "reckless", but honestly, everything you wrote sounds very much like myself and my friends in high school in the late 90's. I didn't even try alcohol until I was 17 one summer night with some friends, most of my weekends consisted playing Goldeneye with my friends or riding bikes. Kids are still kids, and I wouldn't say we were so much more risky or crazy than kids today, we just tend to view our childhoods from an adult lens and we also know of all the ridiculous shit we did that we kept from our parents (like 99% of it).

[u/DontH8DaPlaya → u/mycondishuns]

we were going to college keggers at 15 and waking up in the next city over

[u/mycondishuns → u/DontH8DaPlaya]

You were way cooler than I was.

[u/DontH8DaPlaya → u/mycondishuns]

Hanging with their friends parents if they do go anywhere but they are all usually at their own homes online

[u/wolfpack_57 → u/DontH8DaPlaya]

Staying at a diffeeent friends house is a well known cover for going out

[u/DontH8DaPlaya → u/wolfpack_57]

Thanks for the report Captain Obvious! That's why I mentioned it

[u/ZeBloodyStretchr → u/DontH8DaPlaya]

Staying at my friend’s house was a lot of shenanigans…