> The book "Bowling Alone" documented this collapse and was written between 1995-2000, well before the advent of smartphones and social media. Smartphones and

> 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.