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Old people, did people used to be so afraid of doing things alone? This has to be because of social media right? (hexbear.net)
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Zoomer here, will go to concerts alone once every few months because I have pretentious taste in music + the one friend I have with very similar tastes is a little agoraphobic

Hell all 3 festivals I've been to have also been alone cause people flaking before a big fest is pretty common in general and happened to me all 3 times. Will sometimes try to meet people and hangout, sometimes not depending on what vibe I'm feeling

So many zoomers who find out I do this look at me so weird but like what, am I just not going to enjoy myself and do something I want just because I don't have somebody to go with?

I have a few friends that are 40+ and it sounds like they do stuff alone frequently. The ~30 year old friends aren't doing it a lot but they don't seem to have the same fear zoomers do either. I regularly run into 30+ yo ppl I know at an event there alone but never happens with zoomers

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

At some age, people learn about which social standards they actually care about and which ones they want to ignore.

When I was young, I knew some people that thought it was weird to go to a pub yourself, but now many of them do it for lunch on a workday or whatever.

I knew a guy who thought it was weird to pay for minor things with a debit card (he thought it was flashy and wanted us to pay in cash).

Idk, random stuff, I think it's pretty normal to grow up thinking you have to do things like going to a cinema in a group, but realising you can just go and chill out by yourself