That's a huge claim. Do you have any anthropological or historical evidence to reference? If you don't care about your parents or your high school buddies, tha

That's a huge claim. Do you have any anthropological or historical evidence to reference? If you don't care about your parents or your high school buddies, that's not really an indictment of social life; maybe you just need new friends. Even during the European enlightenment, companionship was hugely important to lots of thinkers. Some historians trace the whole era's intellectual climate to the rise of social coffee shops. That's not the same as playing cards with high school buddies but social life is vast and wide. This right here is social life, indeed you're complaining about social media on a social media site.