Yup, that’s what I’ve really noticed with teenagers these days, a sort of passive there but not there. They hang around, but don’t really engage with the environment around them as much. It’s certainly not entirely bad, I’m Gen X, and we basically did all we could to separate ourselves from adults whenever possible, and it was not generally for a good reason. But man, I feel sorry for them in a way, because what will the memories of their teenage years be like?
Their memories? They will have them stored in Facebook.
Gen-X as well. I don't have a single AWESOME memory from m teenage years that included my parents.
All my great memories were with my friends at places where our parents were nowhere to be found.