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[quote=Anonymous]15-16 is the age where some people start dating and that is ALL that matters to them. So like you said -- they'll go out with friends but be texting their gf/bf the whole time and then ditch their friends if their gf/bf can show up.

BUT not all teens are like this and in fact many prefer the "group dating" -- i.e. just hanging out -- with friends along with a significant other rather than going out to dinner/movie with their gf/bf.

Few thoughts -- how outgoing is he? Are there kids from school that he liked/wanted to get to know better but just didn't for some reason -- likely because his own social group wasn't ignoring him back then? Can you reach out to a few of those people casually via social media? It doesn't have to be anything more than -- how's your summer going, what are you up to, want to grab pizza sometime, do you think Mike/John/some 3rd or 4th kid who is in town not doing much would want to come?

With social media I feel like kids have gotten a lot more "bold" in asking other kids to hang out -- even if they weren't close at school. That may feel like more normal friendship to him than suddenly signing up for camps and lego teams hoping to make friends; what happens in those "artificial" groups is that you likely do the activity and leave. Sometimes you may click with a person or two but after that activity ends you may or may not hang out again, esp if that person has a full social life in his own school district and it would be odd to invite you when he's hanging out with friends from that school.[/quote]

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