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Where did they go ? Perhaps if retailers had been less keen to install The Mosquito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T

by mortov 13y ago

Where did they go ? Perhaps if retailers had been less keen to install The Mosquito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito) to shoo them away, they may have had more customers. Sounds like retailers have discovered the downside to the constant anti-teenager policies of malls and shops treating them as hostile aliens to be driven off and sometimes even criminalized for being so "anti-social" as to try and go out shopping by themselves whilst under 21. No wonder they buy online or just decide to play online games instead of going out. At least there they are not going to be harassed by mall cops or arrested by real cops and criminalized.

marquis 13y ago
Also, jobs? When I was growing up teenagers were the mainstay of the supermarket bag&checkout for example - now I see older people having these jobs. Which probably means there isn't much lower to go in terms of income.
mrjatx 13y ago
I've never heard of this. Wikipedia had this about it, which is pretty hilarious; Some teenagers turned the sound into a mobile phone ringtone, which could not be heard by teachers if the phone rang during a class.[38] Mobile phone speakers are capable of producing frequencies above 20 kHz.[39] This ringtone became informally known as "Teen Buzz"[40] or "the Mosquito ringtone" and has since been sold commercially.
VLM 13y ago
"At least there they are not going to be harassed by mall cops ..." Ask the parents of those teens. I got harassed at the local mall as a quiet, well dressed biz-casual, heavily spending yuppie in my 20s by mall cops, I was speechless at the time, needless to say I'll never go there again, and I am not planning on letting my kids go there either. They went to great effort to prevent young people from spending money at the mall. It took awhile, but young people are now not spending money at the mall. I'm not seeing much of a problem. When it closes we can build a nice condo there. If they could just hurry up and close, so we could get on with progress...

by mortov 13y ago

marquis 13y ago

Also, jobs? When I was growing up teenagers were the mainstay of the supermarket bag&checkout for example - now I see older people having these jobs. Which probably means there isn't much lower to go in terms of income.

mrjatx 13y ago

I've never heard of this. Wikipedia had this about it, which is pretty hilarious; Some teenagers turned the sound into a mobile phone ringtone, which could not be heard by teachers if the phone rang during a class.[38] Mobile phone speakers are capable of producing frequencies above 20 kHz.[39] This ringtone became informally known as "Teen Buzz"[40] or "the Mosquito ringtone" and has since been sold commercially.

VLM 13y ago

"At least there they are not going to be harassed by mall cops ..." Ask the parents of those teens. I got harassed at the local mall as a quiet, well dressed biz-casual, heavily spending yuppie in my 20s by mall cops, I was speechless at the time, needless to say I'll never go there again, and I am not planning on letting my kids go there either. They went to great effort to prevent young people from spending money at the mall. It took awhile, but young people are now not spending money at the mall. I'm not seeing much of a problem. When it closes we can build a nice condo there. If they could just hurry up and close, so we could get on with progress...