[rcme]

I doubt lack of social space has anything to do with it. As a kid I would hang out at a literal dump with friends; what else were we going to do? It’s just too easy to waste an afternoon on TikTok.

[crtified]

I agree. Kids make the best of what's available. And in some ways they are still doing so, in this more digital age. In ways we older gens couldn't. But there's no denying that the elephant in the room is the massively pervasive, universal social and information connection that is cellphones and internet. Even we older gens have been subsumed to a fair degree - we're here right now! :)

[storkhm]

Haha spot on. My hang out was this broken slide at an abandon playground. Or you could climb on the metal bar in the overgrown weeds.

There is just no way I would be doing that in 2023 as a kid. It was fun at the time because the alternative was even more boring.