> It's a mystery to me too how people do this. Well, increasingly, they just don't – physically. More people are living alone(1) – which I interpret as a dece

> It's a mystery to me too how people do this. Well, increasingly, they just don't – physically. More people are living alone(1) – which I interpret as a decent indicator for decline of physical connections overall – but since the feeling of being alone is not increasing(2), internet/social media seem to make up for the difference(3, 4). (1) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/one-person-households https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/one-person-households (2) https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/12/declining-loneliness-of-US-students-1536x1075.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/12/declining-lonelin... (3) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/users-by-social-media-platform?time=2004..2018&country=Facebook~Instagram~MySpace~Pinterest~Reddit~Snapchat~TikTok~Tumblr~Twitter~WeChat~Whatsapp~YouTube https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/users-by-social-media-pla... (4) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-time-spent-on-the-internet-by-young-people https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-time-spent-on-the-i...