Teenagers are Being Banned From Going in Public Alone, it Makes Sense They're Cooped Up On Their Phones

When I was a teenager in the now apparently olden days of the early 2000's, we had a variety of tech, but it was a bit less ubiquitous. Cell phones weren't the smartphones we now know. Downloading music via the internet happened, but was more of a dirty little illegal thing compared to buying CDs or burning a mix of songs for your friends. Plus, we often just...hung out. We'd just lounge around a park, sit at a coffee place, aimlessly wander the Mall, lounge at an arcade, or otherwise go out and do random stuff. We Millennials weren't exactly like when Generation X were kids or teenagers, as they'd literally get thrown out of the house by their parents for hours upon hours (told to just come back by the time the streetlights flickered on), but we definitely were out and about more than a lot of Gen Z or younger kiddos. Some people say the ability of teenagers to sit at home and talk with all their friends online, play games with them, and so forth has created less desire to go out and…