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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by RobLach on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:04PM (#19497367)
50 years from now teens will have a subscription to curated experiences for them to get together in-person for while their typical interpersonal interactions will happen over the Internet where it’s nice with a relatively null marginal cost.
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by wangchungtonite on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:08PM (#19497384)
This is rather depressing and hopefully not true but likely is. Reminds me of the movie “Surrogates”
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by arcticfox on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:50PM (#19497566)
> 50 years from now

This sounds like 5 years from now to me, if not today in large part

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by asdff on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:51AM (#19502137)
I can see it now. We are already turning groceries into a subscription service, why stop there? $19.99 a month for a coffee a week, and the store is closed to starbucks nonsubscribers or they buy a day pass for $7. Oh but did you know new subscribers get spotify free for one month???

Huge companies have already captured the market and can afford buy out any alternatives or pay for favorable policy, only a matter of time until they matriculate our piecemeal purchases into guaranteed regular profit.

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by proy24 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:40AM (#19499294)
Shit I was a teenager only 8 years ago but cannot relate to todays teenagers at all..In contrast I could very easily relate to people in their 20s when I was a teenager.
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by BurningFrog on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:11AM (#19498306)
It will be 5 years from now in China.

The rest of us can watch and learn.

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by swiley on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:29AM (#19500170)
I’m pretty sure we’re already starting to do this.
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by ryanmercer on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:30AM (#19500178)
So, escape rooms?
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