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Yep. As a child of the ‘80’s, life was definitely like that for the most part.
A lot of it comes down to both smartphones and the loss of ‘third spaces’ in general. I read an article in Newsweek this morning about an MIT study that analysed footage from between 1978 and 1980 and compared those same spaces today.
It shows people are now walking faster and not hanging in groups as much. There’s less eye contact and less engagement in general.
As stereotypical as it sounds, hanging out with your friends at the mall was just what you did. We spent hours just hanging around game stores and such. It connected you with people you knew and people you didn’t. Hang out with someone in the mall for 30 minutes and you’re now friends.
The current generation is a lot different. There’s no real physical, organic hangout. And when there is, it’s now more often seen as a nuisance rather than an integral part of the social fabric.
I definitely feel like the author of that article posted here missed the mark. The 80’s were definitely radically different from today.