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Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:13 pm to TheMT83
This is a parent problem. Just another example of these mentality I’ll people that won’t leave their parents house and go out on their own to work for a living and pay rent or a mortgage
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:15 pm to TheMT83
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So even for young adults just out of college in their early to mid 20s there's not a lot of places to go and meet others their age. They end up getting restricted to meeting people through family, meeting people through work and maybe meeting people through church/religion.
I was just giving an example from personal experience but I haven't made it that far in life yet so I couldn't give you any examples of things that aren't college related.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:18 pm to TheMT83
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They end up getting restricted to meeting people through family, meeting people through work and maybe meeting people through church/religion.
You're really showing your age here. Apps. They meet each other on the apps.
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Sure go to Tigerland where you have a decent chance of being shot.
You just made a previous posters point about how they are shut-ins now because their parents have been ramming how dangerous everything is down their throats. What you said is pure catastrophizing.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:18 pm to tigersbsbfan23
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I was just giving an example from personal experience but I haven't made it that far in life yet so I couldn't give you any examples of things that aren't college related.
That's understandable and from a Gen Z perspective do you think what we're discussing is accurate or are we wrong to perceive that Gen Z just doesn't seem to want to do as much or have as much fun as previous generations?
It's good to have your perspective. Obviously these boards tend to lean older (since of course social media/tiktok/youtube have made message boards obsolete for a lot of people, though I still enjoy them) and maybe our perception isn't reality. It just seems like Gen Z is truly fundamentally different than previous generations.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:18 pm to TheMT83
Xbox live
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:19 pm to jcaz
quote:you’re not wrong. Feels like only service industry people go to bars after turning 25 anymore, excluding a few trendy places in every city
The bars of full of Gen X’ers holding onto whatever youth they can find now. I don’t blame them.
ETA- I think dating apps and Covid are largely responsible for this
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:21 pm to TheMT83
Do Boomers not know how to post on the internet?
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:21 pm to TheMT83
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This post was edited on 12/31/23 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:24 pm to facher08
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You're really showing your age here. Apps. They meet each other on the apps.
That really depresses me then. I know all about the apps. Heck in the dating thread from a few days ago I brought my perspective on it as I've tried several of the dating apps. I know a lot of Gen Z use the dating apps just to meet others or have casual hookups. But my experience on those apps have been horrible and I think is leading to a lot of the challenges that Gen Z face. I really hate that apps have become the default way to meet people for dating purposes since the pandemic.
Regarding Tigerland regardless of the recent incidents Tigerland has been going downhill for decades now. I didn't go to LSU but even people who were students in the 2000's would tell you that Tigerland was going downhill at that time.
I agree parents are overprotective. I know their parents ram "everything is dangerous" down their throats. Heck my sister was a little concerned about my niece going to Europe. I told my niece to just follow some basic common sense rules (stay in populated areas, don't go down dark allies, stay in well lit areas if alone) and she'll be fine. I even told her to kind of ignore her mom's concerns.
So I admit I think that is a problem. And of course our media ramming anything bad down our throat I think is genuinely hurting as well. It's making the world seem far more dangerous than it really is.
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:27 pm to TheMT83
You really love alcohol and seem to think that's the center of all fun but forget alcohol causes a shite ton of issues as well.
The biggest issue is fun isn't free and our society has been completely shaped around adult alcoholism for 100 years now leaving very few non-substance abuse outlets.
What do you do for fun on nights if you're a young adult and don't drink alcohol? There isn't much to offer.
The biggest issue is fun isn't free and our society has been completely shaped around adult alcoholism for 100 years now leaving very few non-substance abuse outlets.
What do you do for fun on nights if you're a young adult and don't drink alcohol? There isn't much to offer.
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 10:28 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:28 pm to TheMT83
Seems that way. Bought some beer at a gas station on my birthday a few weeks ago. The cashier checked my ID, wished me a happy birthday and said it was her birthday too, her 21st. I asked if she had any big plans and she said she was just hanging out at home. I’m an old millennial and it seems like the bar/club scene amongst gen z isn’t what it was for previous generations.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:32 pm to TheMT83
I believe it. It started before Gen Z. I graduated high school in 09 and my class was the last one that really partied a lot. Everyone younger than us wasn’t near as outgoing and sociable
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:34 pm to tiggerthetooth
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You really love alcohol and seem to think that's the center of all fun but forget alcohol causes a shite ton of issues as well.
The biggest issue is fun isn't free and our society has been completely shaped around adult alcoholism for 100 years now leaving very few non-substance abuse outlets.
What do you do for fun on nights if you're a young adult and don't drink alcohol? There isn't much to offer.
Ironically I don't drink that much anymore. Yes I'll admit I drank a very good amount in my 20's. And yes I still enjoy going out occasionally and having a few. The sad thing is there's only really one nice bar type atmosphere left in my area that I really enjoy.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread several other places I used to go have all either closed or changed their format/target audience and aren't what they used to be. Which does lead me to the point you brought up that there isn't much to offer.
I guess the real question is how do we as a society change that? Is it even possible?
And while maybe some in Gen Z are having fun in their own way it is a generational problem. It's well established that depression/anxiety/mental illness are all incredibly high within Gen Z.
I think a lot of that is that they were sadly taught to be scared of the world. And due to that fear I think a lot of them truly don't even know at this point how to have fun hence this thread.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:43 pm to deltaland
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I believe it. It started before Gen Z. I graduated high school in 09 and my class was the last one that really partied a lot. Everyone younger than us wasn’t near as outgoing and sociable
I can truly believe this. I work for a major Company and due to that our workforce is pretty diversified in terms of age. One of my duties is that I facilitate our Corporate Orientation sessions (essentially just a glorified welcome session). I also try to mentor our department's interns (we do several internships each year) and even just our younger employees in general.
During this I try to have some casual conversations with many of them. And I very much get the sense that you did that a lot of them just don't care to go out at all. Some of them are flat out socially awkward and I do think the pandemic had a big effect with that.
A previous poster mentioned a girl who was turning 21 and really had no plans. I know that's come up with several interns and a lot of them also did nothing special for their 21st birthday. Heck my oldest niece, for her 21st birthday, literally had dinner with her parents and her sister and then her parents had 2 drinks with her at the restaurant.
I don't even remember my 21st.
And honestly I still think that's how it should be. I had drank before that of course (my first drink was at 15) but of course it's different when you can do it legally. Even if you're not big into alcohol as long as it doesn't go crazy (any type of alcohol poisoning) I think getting pretty drunk on your 21st should be a right of passage. It's really your last milestone birthday (that you want to celebrate. ) so it should be special, not just another birthday. This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 11:12 pm to TheMT83
In regards to going to the movies when I was younger we would go and watch movies all the time (think the era of the first avengers movie or the first hunger games) but now with movie streaming if me and my friends want to watch a movie we just go get food and some alcohol and watch it at one of our places.
Going to the mall is something that we also still do but in places like Baton Rouge maybe not as much as the Mall of Louisiana is sketch, but in high school me and my friends would go to the lakeside mall pretty often.
Then in my personal experience to driving this one is very gender divided as all the guys that I went to high school with got their learners when they turned 15 and got their licenses the moment we turned 16, where as for girls I know some who are now 21/22 who still do not have it.
Then with social media that is how we all stay connected with things like snapchat as everyone has group chats with their friends. This is also how we get our groups together for when we want to go out to tigerland, we gather together all the deals of that night and then vote on which one is the best. This is also where the fraternity guys post when they are having house parties. I would say the connectivity is a blessing and a curse because everyone will find out things that happen before you even have a chance to react. An example of this is in greek life everyone knows that theta xi is getting kicked off before lsu has announced it.
I will say we look at our phones way too much. In high school everyone was just on their phone instead of paying attention, so the teachers started taking our phones at the beginning of each class so we would pay attention. Now at LSU everyone just has their AirPods in just kind of exist and don't really interact with each other on campus. The most interaction you would get on campus is when you run into someone you know or there's a guy in the quad that asks people on what song they're listening to for a tiktok.
Example of quad tiktok
There's also some merit to this as I know a lot of people on anti-depressants. A lot of people my age are also on adderall which I personally feel is the thing that's really messing up my generation as people abuse it a lot especially during exam time, and adderall abuse has been shone to really mess people up mentally and physically. As for us all being fat that's not true, I know more people with anorexia than I do who are fat which I attribute to social media as everyone wants to be the next influencer.
Also for meeting people some of the closest friends I have made have been through going out to the bars and being sociable, or in class and just getting to know the people around me. I personally don't use apps like tinder but I know a lot of people who do. Then for every incoming class there's an instagram page where people who are incoming freshmen post to make new friends and find roommates and this is how I also met some of my closest friends I have today.
Going to the mall is something that we also still do but in places like Baton Rouge maybe not as much as the Mall of Louisiana is sketch, but in high school me and my friends would go to the lakeside mall pretty often.
Then in my personal experience to driving this one is very gender divided as all the guys that I went to high school with got their learners when they turned 15 and got their licenses the moment we turned 16, where as for girls I know some who are now 21/22 who still do not have it.
Then with social media that is how we all stay connected with things like snapchat as everyone has group chats with their friends. This is also how we get our groups together for when we want to go out to tigerland, we gather together all the deals of that night and then vote on which one is the best. This is also where the fraternity guys post when they are having house parties. I would say the connectivity is a blessing and a curse because everyone will find out things that happen before you even have a chance to react. An example of this is in greek life everyone knows that theta xi is getting kicked off before lsu has announced it.
I will say we look at our phones way too much. In high school everyone was just on their phone instead of paying attention, so the teachers started taking our phones at the beginning of each class so we would pay attention. Now at LSU everyone just has their AirPods in just kind of exist and don't really interact with each other on campus. The most interaction you would get on campus is when you run into someone you know or there's a guy in the quad that asks people on what song they're listening to for a tiktok.
Example of quad tiktok
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they're all fat and on anti-depressants/benzos
There's also some merit to this as I know a lot of people on anti-depressants. A lot of people my age are also on adderall which I personally feel is the thing that's really messing up my generation as people abuse it a lot especially during exam time, and adderall abuse has been shone to really mess people up mentally and physically. As for us all being fat that's not true, I know more people with anorexia than I do who are fat which I attribute to social media as everyone wants to be the next influencer.
Also for meeting people some of the closest friends I have made have been through going out to the bars and being sociable, or in class and just getting to know the people around me. I personally don't use apps like tinder but I know a lot of people who do. Then for every incoming class there's an instagram page where people who are incoming freshmen post to make new friends and find roommates and this is how I also met some of my closest friends I have today.
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 11:30 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 11:18 pm to TheMT83
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Obviously these boards tend to lean older
I know there's a worry on here about the future of this board, and a decent number of LSU students know what TD is but our "message boards" is this app called yikyak.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 11:28 pm to TheMT83
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Good point as well. Being 40 and being at college from 2002 to 2007 I feel like I personally hit a sweet spot.
Myself mid to late 90s.
Forever it seemed like most people considered the late 80s the sweet spot. And it was.
But I think early-mid 2000s is right up there, as you state because tech was there but not taken over.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 11:55 pm to TheMT83
To Gen Z tik tok/Instagram IS fun.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 12:17 am to TheMT83
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going out to bars, social events or even house parties
Maybe Gen Z'ers are put off by alcoholics and drunks?
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