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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by beenBoutIT on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:31AM (#19498384)
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.
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by SubiculumCode on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:52AM (#19501358)
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.

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by beenBoutIT on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:53AM (#19534131)
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.
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