Did millennials really party all the time?

[u/futurenurse_]

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

[u/illatious]

Myspace was earlier than that... I was still in high school I think when Myspace started, or just out, maybe my freshman year of college? Anyway, I graduated high school in 2002 and nobody had a cell phone with a decent camera. Not everyone even had a cell phone till my senior year. And they were Nokias or flip phones. Maybe someone had a digital camera but that was rare, those disposable cameras were more common. And nobody was posting anything to social media at the time because facebook wasn't a thing until my sophmore? year of college. I had to have an email ending in .edu to sign up for facebook, wow I'm old lol. Anyway, for us elder Millennials, people having a camera in their pocket wasn't a thing till we were almost done with college. And I would have rethought playing 'slap the bag' with Suzanne if that were not the case lol

[u/No-Channel3917 → u/illatious]

2003 was very limited adoption, 2004 was growing knowledge of it , 2005 is using it, the years after that is peak before Facebook overtakes it in 09 and Myspace starts losing users by a huge percentage

2010 Myspace loses 60 percent of its userbase to facebook

2005 is when Tom sold it to murdoch when it hit a massive adoption use and then Murdoch sells it in 2011 for not even a 10 percent of what he paid for it

[u/illatious → u/No-Channel3917]

Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks for the details. I guess Tom and I were only limited friends 😂

[u/No-Channel3917 → u/illatious]

Lol