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Old farts still had irl friends. The amount of teens who have no tangible friendships outside of Discord is sobering.
by YinglingLight 6y ago
Old farts still had irl friends. The amount of teens who have no tangible friendships outside of Discord is sobering.
- narag 6y agoMy son has a group of friends at the Uni, some of them in his same school, some of them in nearby schools, some of them are in the neighbourhood... half of them are from high school, the other half are from Minecraft discord groups. They have a weekly meeting in a Uni cafeteria and use indistinctly Discord or Instagram as chat. Instagram has replaced WhatsApp as the regular phone chat. All of them have wider net-only groups of acquitances.
- phatfish 6y agoTeens/young adults surely have far more opportunities to make real life friends than working age adults. They are at least required to attend school. I would say that this is more the lifestyle of adults after being out of education for a few years. They are the group that can ignore all real life interaction if they want, Covid has increased the likelihood of this.