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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do boys start texting girls and asking them out in college? what changes with them?[/quote]

They start to look like men.  [/quote]
This definitely changes.  I didn't date in HS at all.  Lots of guys were twerpy.  I was asked out on my second day at college and dated pretty consistently after that, with a couple of relationships before meeting my husband.[/quote]

Which is why most HS girls date Jrs/Srs or college guys. [/quote]

From what I am hearing, think this is the case for most high school kids these days. [b]It’s harder for them to connect organically because of social media.[/b] Especially because Covid stunted these teens social growth during critical middle school years end. They would have been figuring out initial flirting. Kids today missed that window and now many of them prefer staying home on their electronics. It’s what they know and feel comfortable with. [/quote]

Seems like that would make it easier. I've met tons of people as friends, not dating, via social media apps that I would have never met "organically", to hook up for events and common interests, work, etc. [/quote]

This is true if their in person social skills were already appropriately developed. But they are often not.  I know many teens and I hear regularly that they “meet” people on social media and then when they finally meet up in person that person is totally different - often awkward or strange or just not the same person. Their online communication skills become overly developed and it causes issues. The teens that are always “talking” to someone but it never leads to a real relationships guaranteed have this going on.[/quote]

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