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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Oct-2025 06:28:35 JST mhoye

   I don’t spend a lot of time on here telling you all how smart my kids are but today I was talking with my son about the idea of a “Third Place” and he mentioned how all these “coming of age” stories he’s read have kids meeting or hanging out at “the mall”, and what a weird, totally alien idea that is to him and his friends. “Did they even have places you could sit down or not buy anything then? None of us have money.”

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Oct-2025 06:28:34 JST mhoye

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     “I wish I lived in a world where I had a third space that wasn’t my room” and God Damn I felt that.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Oct-2025 06:28:34 JST mhoye

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     If we don’t want kids staring at screens all day then maybe we should build a world where online multiplayer chat isn’t the only third space that teenagers have available to them.