I keep cutting out things like social media from my lifestyle, but I’m finding it hard to fill the time. Reading can only go so far, there’s never anything on TV, and my friends all live twelve miles away.
So, before we really had social media, what did teenagers do?
I mean we still had Nintendos as kids and N64 and Playstations as teenagers. Even early Millennials probably had access to internet as teenagers be it dial up or just at school in the labs or library. But internet was consumed different then. Forums/boards, anonymous chatrooms, and straight up surfing random websites through webrings was the gist of it rather than videos, pictures, statuses, etc.
A very American thing to do was to go waste time at the mall. Even if you didn’t buy anything it provided a climate controlled people watching place.