>>"Every hour you spend being entertained in front of your screens is an hour less you could be spending building actual social bonds with people in your commun

>>"Every hour you spend being entertained in front of your screens is an hour less you could be spending building actual social bonds with people in your community." I feel it didn't used to be like that; there was a brief period of limited TV choices where it seemed to increase the bonds - it was a shared experience, and unlike most shared experiences which you have with couple of people physically present, it was shared with any number of friends colleagues and strangers. "Did you see the movie last night" or "Did you catch Ed Sullivan" show, do even "Remember the Friends episode where...". It was a common cultural reference point. Now of course there's so much content we are more divergent and everybody watches their own TV show or Movie or Youtube channel or TikTok etc.