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Depressed finances, artisanal culture and the comfortable snare of social media may be leading millennials to throw and attend fewer house parties than previous generations of North Americans.
News of the decline is concerning because regular opportunities to interact free of the kinds of rules that govern other types of social environments, such as in business or education, are necessary for full social development, psychologists say.
In college, there were way more house parties, but Ive only been to a handful in my two years since, Mitchell Friedman, a 24-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, told The New York Times. My roommates and I never threw any parties, either.
Madeleine Watson, 29, of Vancouver, British Columbia, said: Ive been to, maybe, three or four house parties in the last couple of years, and theyre always Halloween or New Years or a holiday event. And its always the same house and the same people throwing it.
In their first couple of years in Brooklyn, Christine Vines, 27, and her roommate hosted maybe two house parties, Vines told the Times. That was a trial, she said. We decided it was more effort than it was worth. I went to a handful a year, usually Halloween or New Years. ................(more)
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/americans_struggle_to_party_like_they_used_to_20151001
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Fewer social gatherings is also true among the older generations. At least that is my experience as a member of an older generation.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)The prep work before, the clean up after. The concern that one of your guests my get popped for DUI on the way home, it is just not that much fun any more.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)A party would overload their brains.
olddots
(10,237 posts)are rich people's showing off their money .
This is a very depressed and different world since the 2000 coup .
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)I'd hate to be a college student today.
Come on over. We've got plenty to drink and you can smoke (anything, as far as I'm concerned). There are few things I enjoy more than entertaining my friends and acquaintances with a fine meal, a good variety of music and conversation and some good inebriants (if that's your thing).
It doesn't have to be expensive and often the guests will bring some goodies with them.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Johonny
(20,681 posts)have choked on their own vomit in their sleep like we used to. I can't see how young people manage to have fun anymore.
About house parties... they weren't all that great.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)but I don't miss the hangovers.
treestar
(82,383 posts)that the parties did not really create any social development. You can't talk to anyone. Or you have to yell.