iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

by Jean M. Twenge

Graffiti (see Appendix D). A night at the movies has been a standard teen social activity for generations (what would adolescence be if it didn’t involve some immature throwing of popcorn?), but, as we saw in chapter 2, iGen’ers are less likely to go to movies. iGen teens are less likely to go to bars and nightclubs—even since 1988, when the drinking age was raised to 21 nationwide, the number of high school seniors who went to bars or nightclubs has been cut in half. In 2006, the New York Times documented the new trend of nightclubs for teens (called “starter clubs”), with some for teens under 18. By 2016, however, the Times and other newspapers noted that many dance clubs were closing.