[wink]

Yeah, it's handy - and maybe my teenage years were an exception here, but for me the deciding change was internet access and not the smartphone. As long as you could coordinate with your friends online, the actual meeting up outside wasn't a big problem anymore. Talking late 90s, early 00s here - everyone had ICQ or at least email and as long as people were checking this after school/in the afternoon, the plans for the night were easy to mass communicate.