- Jun 15, 2014
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I took my daughters to a concert last year and all of the teenage/ twenty somethings were plugged into their phones the whole time taking selfies and posting... It was very odd.. It is almost as if no matter where they are, they have to know what is going on somewhere else....ATXGator said:divits;n27614 said:I guess I can understand alumni cutting back on going to games because of the time and money involved, but for crying out loud what the hell else are students doing in Gainesville, Florida on a Saturday afternoon? Are we to believe that they're so scary busy that football games just can't fit into their schedule? And who gives a crap about how the team is playing. When you're in college the game is secondary to the party in the stands. I agree with the monkey, people are letting real life pass them by by having their noses in their phones all day. They freaking sleep with those damn things. They're going to be 80 years old one day and look back at their life as one long reddit thread.
Divits really nailed it here. The game experience doesn't really extend to the students these days. They are more focused on the narcasism of social media and if they can't immeditely post a #selfie on Instagram, FB, Twitter, etc... then they aren't interested. UF even has more evening games this year which should help, but this is a problem happening all over with College and NFL. The truth is the game experience is better these days at home so people are choosing to watch games there.