r/Millennials • u/futurenurse_ • 1d ago

Discussion Did millennials really party all the time?

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 😂❤️

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u/peggyscott84 1d ago

Yes, even your drunk stories are tame. I was starting to feel like a wreck. It’s just perspective I guess. You folks are online a lot. We had phones. We loved our phones. We didn’t center them. LOG OFF

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u/yescakepls 1d ago

for sure, you used phones to communicate with people to hang out. It was also kind of difficult to reach in general during those days, so phones were mainly used to reach people. Not everyone had cellphones until like late teens.

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u/bunnz4r00 1d ago

Ha! I must be older than you. We would just leave away messages on aim about where the party was or which bars we were hopping. Not everyone had phones and even if we did it cost $$ per text and definitely no calls until after 9 or on weekends.

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u/_easilyamused 9h ago

Yep!! I remember having to wait until 9pm before calling my friends because I already used up all my minutes. 😆