I was born in 93 and I don't know what any kind of friday night party is like.
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I think another thing is the lack of cameras. If you brought a camera before it was because you intended to take pictures. Now, everyone has a camera with them at all times.
Are the parties young people have nowadays just less wild because everyone has cameras? Or do people mostly party at clubs and bars and so they expect it to be on camera? Or do people not party as much?
When I was younger and before cell phone cameras of high quality were everywhere, parties were filled with debauchery and drugs like out in the open.
Is this why Gen Z thinks hedonism is cringe?
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I am after 2000 and am not attached to my phone at all. To the point where my work tried contacting me for almost an entire day and I didn't check messages until end of day.
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I'm born in the late 80s and I don't know what a party without phones look like. We had phones by the time we were in highschool.
They were so cool back then too. The thing is, they never rang or dinged. They were mostly just a call out thing at that point.
They didn't ring? Custom ring tones were super popular.
Someone born in the late 80s likely wasn't in highschool until the 2000s.
Are you picturing me as a baby going to parties ?
I was also born in the late 80s. I remember having a cell phone in early high school. No one else had one. My parents would call me on it, and I would call them. Maybe you went to a little more upscale school where more kids had a phone, but all of my friends in high school had landlines. That changed toward the later years though, as everyone was getting cars and their parents wanted them to have phones.
But I more meant like, they were just used for phone calls and some texting. We didn’t have apps and push notifications going off constantly throughout the day. MySpace wasn’t even accessible on a phone.
Right, when you called it mattered. Minutes were expensive back then. Still is but it used to, too.
In fact, more or less, I paid about the same then as I do now per month. I get MORE for the money now but I'm still broke.
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I watched Donnie Darko the other night and the age of it just hit me all at once. That world is unrecognizable now.
Right? Jesus is this what our parents felt like when the Internet came? Poor bastards, I pity them still.
Having nothing to do but engage others. Board games. RISK 2210, a 3hr game with 5 turns each. Does anyone actually play games together any more?
The amount of hours I have in that game could probably be measured in weeks. It is still probably my favorite iteration.
It’s weird because the social pressure is mostly off because you have this task before you all. The game itself is the social mediator and a great way to get to know the basics of someone.
And yet, phone up, eyes disengaged, anxieties and physical responses hyper analyzed like an prison inmate with nothing better to do but to overthink every tweek and quirk of their bodies. (It’s a thing, in psychology. Suddenly even a foot falling asleep because you’re sitting on it means something.). Granted, for non-inmates it passes into the counseling speak and self-diagnosis.
Versus just creating excuses, like a game, to talk to people.
Bro all of you with friends happy with staying in one place are crazy. Every partier I know wants to change bars every 45m
There was no way to coordinate, so you'd talk in school on Thursday and decide about meeting up in so and so's house whose parents were away on Saturday and it would just spread like through some weird subcommunications channel and people would show up and you never knew what to expect because nobody was sure who would show up or when or if...
Then if you were like a couple of lads or gals short someone would be like "I know this dude at so and so adress let's go there!"...
It was spontaneous. I don't think spontaneity has changed much in humans over the past two decades, just the form of it, or perhaps the constraints within which it operates.
It feels less important now, less like an adventure.
Now bring me my defibrillator will you?
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The only time we get that now is when the power goes out. Even then most people just stay on their phones unless the cell networks are down.
Blackouts are among my favorite events in life. Just complete stillness, peace, and quiet. People start lighting candles, talking to each other in the streets...
My biggest blunder online as a millennial was going on MySpace or bebo and acting drunk
But nobody check that daily even at the height of its popularity
Geez, bebo.
Mine was being actually drunk and going on random boards on mIRC without changing my usual username
Same time
It kinda sounds like you just became boring and stopped going to parties lol. People still go to parties.
People do, but not as much as they did the decades before. That's for sure. There's a measurable decline of nightlife/clubs/bars/etc. almost everywhere. Phones are one reason, prices, corporatization and the vanishing of subcultures, outside in the real world, are others...
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Both of these are you
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Guessing you spent all that away time on Reddit.
Feel free to stay there next time.
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The thought is in the title, the explanation of how they thought it is in the post body
Spirit of the law not letter of the law, that's how I see it.