U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person • Hacker News Board

Re: U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

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Post by Depooty » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

notyourday wrote: post #237

Symbiote wrote: post #165

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So then, how does sex happen? (Or any intimacy.) That's the bit the old people don't understand. Board games are fine, as would be video games in the same room as the other players. But online? Note that the same worry would apply to a youth who spent all their free time reading alone in the past.

It does not. That's why we have a massive drop in teenage pregnancies.

I disagree, kids have more access to sex education than ever now and tinder is a really good tool for hookups. They just know to use a condom. I remember my dad thought that if the woman was on top and you came inside her she wouldn't get pregnant because of gravity, 9 months later I showed up. Thank you catholic school for only teaching abstinence.

Re: U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

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Post by iheartpotatoes » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 9:40 PM UTC

_qwfv wrote: post #45

iheartpotatoes wrote: post #37

I volunteer at STEM after school program at a Northern California suburban public school in a very affluent county. Engineers from the local companies work on projects with hacker kids. It's a pretty dreamy albeit "canned" town, I never lived in a place that nice. Lots of cul de sacs and "mini malls" and "canned fun" places that are very walkable (unlike the poorer suburbs where kids have to cross 8 lanes of traffic…

> few of them drive. WTF?! Rad? I didn't need to drive in High School, and I still found plenty to do back in the 90s. Kids today have even more options. > there's a frigging movieplex down the street with a bunch of restaurants and TWO parks on opposite sides of the main E/W street... and they just ... go home. WTF. First, movie theaters are awful. Second, there's so much cool stuff to do once you get home! I can go…

"I can go home and play a space marine with my friends, or build castles, or ride dragons, or be the last one standing in any number of variations on king of the hill."

Wow. Just: wow.

I am eager to see how a generation that grew up in virtual reality deals with actual reality. So far it ain't lookin' so good.

Re: U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

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Post by RugnirViking » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #289

RugnirViking wrote: post #203

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I was recently a child in the uk only a few years ago (I'm in my early 20s) and got into trouble for having a knife while playing out in the woods. I was sent home with the knife confiscated, and it was later returned to me. Of course, its entirely possible in other circumstances for it to be less/more acceptable. While at scouts we could of course carry knives without worry, and even met police officers who came to…

Who decided it was a problem — police, or an interfering parent?

police

Re: U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

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Post by beenBoutIT » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 5:53 AM UTC

SubiculumCode wrote: post #249

beenBoutIT wrote: post #138

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Think of them less as 'phones' and more as 'portable strip malls'. A video arcade with every game next door to porn shop with every porno next to a theater w/ every movie and there's places to meet up with friends, meet girls or buy drugs. There's a phone there if you need to make a call but it's not the main attraction.

My son said that most of the kids that actually hang out in person do so to party with drugs or alcohol. He chooses to stay home and rebuild motorcycles and play games. Its as if all the casual socializing has moved to digital.

Now that you mention it, there really isn't a digital substitute for physically tinkering with mechanical stuff or rebuilding things. Hopefully you'll give the guy some hand-me-down desktop PCs, I was under the impression that mechanically inclined kids had become extinct in the developed world.