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Not sure if I missed it but this only count in-person interactions as spending time? It's not that I feel 100% like I'm spending time alone if I'm on voice cha
by wink 4y ago
Not sure if I missed it but this only count in-person interactions as spending time?
It's not that I feel 100% like I'm spending time alone if I'm on voice chat with friends, or even chatting or playing games. Maybe it's an edge case of the people who grew up on IRC but... sure I am home alone but I'm still interacting with people for most of my awake time after work (Interestingly I never counted texts as that, maybe because it was too shortened, and not supported with other media like posting links, images, videos, articles). Why would I not count that? (I am not saying this is or isn't a complete replacement for meeting people, I'm just not sure if it would not highly skew my answers for this graph, but I'm not American anyway :P)
- andkenneth 4y agoI had a flatmate who I played games with before moving in with him. After we moved in, sure I saw him here and there around meals, but in some cases if we were on slightly different schedules we could literally go a few days without seeing eachother, while still talking over a game of Valorant or Overwatch every night, just like before
- hackernewds 4y agoThe illusion of being together when being virtual probably is the single largest reason for isolation. not to mention, when your friends/partners/siblings are texting other people while next to you - you're not even getting their 100%, as they could have.
- wink 4y agoYou can call it illusion, I call it talking to the same friends I'm sadly not seeing every week and then continuing our online discussions in person, or vice versa. I've actually tried to hint that I'm not trying to convey this as a complete replacement, it works fine for me. I personally don't feel alone when I can talk to certain people over the internet, but I do when I am not conversing.