Teens are spending less time than ever with friends

Post by survirtual » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 2:53 AM UTC

autoexec wrote: post #21

Pet_Ant wrote: post #19

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> Give teens more freedom, give them places to hang out, They don't have bunch of disposible income, so what's the economic incentive? I mean can you imagine the shit storm if a tax was levied to fund a space of teens to hang out? I can hear the whinging from parallel universes where it happened already.

I know long term thinking is basically impossible for most people, but their could be economic advantages over the long term. If teens start spending more time in person and have spaces to run away to maybe they'll start having sex again and the population will boom.

Post by storkhm » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 2:28 PM UTC

rcme wrote: post #13

BanazirGalbasi wrote: post #3

The article mostly seems to blame social media, but I also think that the lack of good social spaces is also key. There's fewer and fewer spaces that a group of teens can just hang out without spending money (due to "no loitering" policies/signs), and that number is even smaller if you count spaces in walking distance of most families. I've also heard/read plenty of anecdotes about malls shrinking or closing down com…

I doubt lack of social space has anything to do with it. As a kid I would hang out at a literal dump with friends; what else were we going to do? It’s just too easy to waste an afternoon on TikTok.