Generation Millennidull ..or are they the wisest teens ever?

Nearly 35% of 18 to 24-year-olds reported binge drinking in the week before the ONS survey in 2005. By 2017, this had dropped below 25% The birth rate for women aged 18 fell 58% between 2000 and 2016, while birth rates for men of the same age fell 41% in the same period Average life expectancy for women in 2000 was 88.3 years. Now it is 90.5. For men, it was 85.1 years in 2000 and has jumped to 87.7 When I get home from work I just want to get straight in bed and watch Netflix – not go out.

I have a night out about once every two weeks.

My friends and I prefer going out for just a few drinks or having a night in than big nights of heavy drinking and clubbing. It’s more sociable – you can’t really catch up with someone in a club.

And this is going to sound really boring but clubbing and staying out late means you can’t really do anything the next day.

Heavy partying is fine but there comes a point where you are just going to be sick. Everyone needs to know their limits.

None of my friends smoke at all because you are educated about health risks. I just don’t understand it – why would you raise your risk of getting lung cancer? I was 18 in 2000 – and assumed that 18-year-olds still behaved the same way that I did at that age, going out four times a week and heading to bars with my friends in search of drinks offers.

But there are so many options for people to connect now, so I can see how young people are drinking and socialising less, and end up staying in and connecting more through social media.

When I was 18 it was really popular to go on holiday to Benidorm and Magaluf, and for the whole week you’d be out all night and sleeping during the day.

The whole culture was just free drinks and cocktails.

We would go out with the aim of getting as hammered as possible – that would be a good night out.

It’s obviously still happening, but nowhere near as much.

Now anything embarrassing you do while drunk could be on social media the next day.

Many teens went raving in the Noughties Youths today prefer time on their phones GAP year student Katie Wheeler, 18, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, is working part-time while planning a trip to Australia and South East Asia, before going to study at Manchester University next year.

...AND NOT-SO-SENSIBLEWe aimed to go out and get hammered Married father of two Carl Mcquillan, 37, is an IT business manager from Milton Keynes.

GENERATION SENSIBLEEarly night with Netflix tops chaos of clubbing