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Gen Z is facing a 'fringe friend' crisis

4 pointsby laurexover 1 year ago

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happymellonover 1 year ago
&gt; In a last-ditch attempt to make a connection, Moses went to the place where socializing for Gen Z lives these days: TikTok.<p>That&#x27;s not socialising.<p>We have seriously failed the next generation if they think that Tiktok, YouTube, Insta, Discord, Facebook, etc. is socialising.<p>If it isn&#x27;t IRL then it isn&#x27;t socialising.<p>You might be shit at sport, but the local football&#x2F;soccer&#x2F;rugby&#x2F;hockey&#x2F;tag&#x2F;kabaddi group are unlikely to care. You&#x27;ll probably get better at it, but you&#x27;ll also find that a lot of them are there for the human interaction and team sports are great for that.<p>Do it a few times and you&#x27;ll start to see faces you recognise in the local store that you&#x27;ll have interacted enough in person that you&#x27;ll be able to say &quot;hi&quot; in passing. You&#x27;ll be in WhatsApp groups where you can pose a question about finding a local plumber, and it won&#x27;t be complete randos that respond.<p>Failing that, book clubs where you get together to talk about the books that you read, or even just get together to drink tea or wine.<p>The key is interaction, so I&#x27;m not going to suggest film clubs and other passive mediums unless there is interaction with the other afterwards to discuss the film, and hopefully get off topic.
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