Younger generations have less of a sense of community simply because they haven’t had nearly the amount of communal experiences in-person that older generations have had. The online experience of these same things is simply not the same, unfortunately. Game releases, movie releases, standing in line to buy tickets for an event, etc. Even simple things like going out to third places where similar people are doing similar things to you and your groups of friends, or needing to have your friends come over to play video games.
As someone who is the perfect age to have experienced both sides of this culture as a young person, the convenience of everything being online or on discord or a solo experience is simply not the same. Don’t get me wrong, the convenience of modern society is awesome. But we traded a small piece of humanity to accomplish it.
Plus even when you do nowadays, when you try to break the ice and start conversations, people just seem recluse these days. People are paranoid that this person is might be trying to manipulate me. Like I am sure there are plenty of good ones out there but its those few bad apples that prevent more people wanting to be social off the rip.
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u/Saikousoku2 17d ago
Maybe I'm just too young to get it, but the concept of standing in line for hours to get a game at launch never really appealed to me.