Are college aged kids/young adult males friends or just buddies (wife, talks)
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I recently had an interesting experience taking one of my nephews to college. He lives with my brother in the Midwest but goes to college near Washington DC.
This time I got an opportunity to see him interact with his friends at college. He had not seen many of them since 2013 because he spent the winter/spring term abroad.
He has lots of friends in college and my wife and I had a chance to observe him at a party with many of them. I just could not get over how he interacted with his friends in relation to how me, a baby boomer, talks to friends. It is all so casual and non emotional. He had not seen them for a long time but it was like no time had passed.
Are these college friends real friends like older people have? Would friendships be more intense among the women at the college?
Lets talk about friendship between college students vs. friendships of people in their 30s to 50s.
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Your nephew sounds like a normal young man in a normal environment with equally normal friends and acquaintances. Like most of us, whatever our ages [Snip.].
Last edited by PJSaturn; 08-25-2014 at 03:44 PM..
Reason: Rude and off topic.
I think many of us have friends, either from childhood, college or early married days, that we can see after decades and still feel close to.
All my friends are spread far and wide, but when we get together, its as if no time has passed. I thought everyone was like this.
I recently had an interesting experience taking one of my nephews to college. He lives with my brother in the Midwest but goes to college near Washington DC.
This time I got an opportunity to see him interact with his friends at college. He had not seen many of them since 2013 because he spent the winter/spring term abroad.
He has lots of friends in college and my wife and I had a chance to observe him at a party with many of them. I just could not get over how he interacted with his friends in relation to how me, a baby boomer, talks to friends. It is all so casual and non emotional. He had not seen them for a long time but it was like no time had passed.
Are these college friends real friends like older people have? Would friendships be more intense among the women at the college?
Lets talk about friendship between college students vs. friendships of people in their 30s to 50s.
read what you wrote again (underlined)
there's a huge difference from us old buzzards to the youngins,,,them youngins are on facebook and social media,,,,,so they probly keep in touch,,
That really is not that long ago, I had a lot of friends I only worked with during the summer at an amusement park, but did not see during the school year, we just picked up the partying where we left off.
He maybe had not seen his friends, but they most certainly had been Facebooking, Snapchatting, texting, Facetiming, Skyping, etc. Young people these days are in very close and frequent contact, much more than even 10 years ago.
He maybe had not seen his friends, but they most certainly had been Facebooking, Snapchatting, texting, Facetiming, Skyping, etc. Young people these days are in very close and frequent contact, much more than even 10 years ago.
Yes social media lets them stay in touch but I still maintain they are not true friends in most cases like older people are. Conversation is just chit chat and trivia and frequently interrupted by a texting someone else right in the middle of the conversation. Also many need drugs or booze to feel comfortable with other people.
Even though he was away abroad for a term or two doesn't mean he didn't interact with them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.... All of his friends probably kept up with him through his pictures, status updates, private chats, etc.... so when he came back it was more of a casual experience, cuz perhaps it felt like he never left.
With technology and social media, we are never really separated from our friends.
I'm curious, OP - What type of emotion did you expect to see? Did they do the bro hug? That or shaking hands are the only forms of affection I may have expected to see.
And were these really friends of your nephews? Or just people who also go to that college. I'm trying to picture a college party where a student's "boomer aged" aunt and uncle would also be in attendance.
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