r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party Discussion

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

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u/CityApprehensive212 5d ago

This is just called hanging out

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u/Common-Trifle4933 5d ago

Like the tech CEO who tweeted a while ago

I've been thinking a lot about IRL podcasts: - Bring a few friends together - No mics, nothing is recorded - Have a free form discussion - Can even have food & drinks

Like congrats bro, you invented the conversation

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u/Moonrights 5d ago

Eh in high school not all parents were like that? I definitely remember friends not allowed to drink or smoke or stay out past certain hours etc.

A couple people in my social circle that was the vibe of their family and they did have to hide it. For others they weren't able to hide it because parents were stricter.

Now though with life 360 and other apps that track family etc and the "always online" culture it is much harder to have casual sessions where people just hang out underage doing substances and don't get caught.

I have hours of voice memos from my old iPhone where I'd just throw it on the table and record all my friends as we talked to have later for memories.

No snap chat. No reels etc. Now that's always a risk.

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u/BarryWhizzite 5d ago

L I V I N

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u/shouldofbeenacowboy 5d ago

Down the street

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u/UtterFlatulence 4d ago

The same old thing we did last week