Yep. When our group had nothing to do we pretty much all went to somebody's flat and just hung out. Talked shit, smoked cigarettes, listen to music and laugh a lot. Pur friend circle was guys and girls who were not in relationships with each other so was cool as we could all be ourselves. Maybe we might jump in a car and go somewhere when it reached evening or just stayed in and had our own micro party with just the 7 of us. I do wish o had photos from then, but I am also glad we do t jave photos from then.
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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.
Maybe it's something of the people I socialize with. But we don't look at phones when we gather. It's impolite.
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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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We used to have bonfire parties out in the woods. Such good times.
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They also don't know what it's like for someone to move away and you just never see them again.
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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?
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I was born in 93 and I don't know what any kind of friday night party is like.
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This is what we'd do because we were broke. If we had money we'd go to bars and stuff, but otherwise we'd ask the supermarket for free fish ice and buy beers, then filled the bathtub with them.
As people came over they'd go drop the booze in the tub and pick up a cold one.
Many fun nights, though finding people using your bed, not so much.
I was born in 1952.
To me, people born after 2000 are true, real "aliens"
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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.
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Change used to be gradual.
You could drop Cleopatra into Queen Victoria's court and she'd figure out the rules in a week.
Obama was cutting edge in 2008 because he used a Blackberry
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Bro all of you with friends happy with staying in one place are crazy. Every partier I know wants to change bars every 45m
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Kids these days will never know the simple joys of lighting a filthy mattress on fire in a derelict parking lot and drinking a case of warm beer that was the easiest thing to steal from that one gas station a town over with the near sighted night clerk.
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My friends and I would be glued to the N64 or xbox instead
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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.
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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.
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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 mean I was born in 1989 and I can't really remember it because I wouldn't be invited to those kinds of parties until after the invention of the smartphone.
Hell I remember in high school everyone spent most of the time swapping phone bodies around and sharing polyphonic ringtones via IR blaster. And later, Pokémon via a link cable.
The House Party no longer exists. It is one of the great cultural losses.
As a post-2000 person, I can get a glimpse of that in some TV shows like breaking bad. Also when looking at my parents pictures from when they where younger.
But I've never experienced it. You can hang out with friends and all but good luck convincing 4+ friends to NOT take their phones to a gathering.
There's always someone texting their gf/bf, someone who likes to post too much, someone deep in online gatchas.
Even an inactive user will carry their phone because of navigation, feeling insecure at night, paying stuff...
There's a billion excuses (with a range of validity) to take your phone with you.
Meh 😕
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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
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Rose tinted view. There were plenty of distractions without phones and people would just get black out drunk wayyy more often than they do now. Maybe a positive is that people can pave themselves easier now.
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i was born before 2000, and I don't know it neither
It kinda sounds like you just became boring and stopped going to parties lol. People still go to parties.
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I took a few months off from Lemmy and it's amusing to me that upon returning I find that almost every post in this com still breaks rule 2.
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Both of these are you
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