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Screen addiction and various dopamine hits from social media have produced a catastrophic collapse of various IRL social institutions that traditionally facilit

Screen addiction and various dopamine hits from social media have produced a catastrophic collapse of various IRL social institutions that traditionally facilitated opportunities to meet new people. The book "Bowling Alone" documented this collapse and was written between 1995-2000, well before the advent of smartphones and social media. While I'm not convinced a technology solution is necessarily the right approach, what you're suggesting is straight up waldenponding.

ardy42 7y ago
> The book "Bowling Alone" documented this collapse and was written between 1995-2000, well before the advent of smartphones and social media. Smartphones and social media may just be the latest and most extreme manifestation of technological changes that were already underway then. Before you had smartphone screens, you had television screens, etc.