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I don't get it. Do people not do that anymore?

• pixl97 4y ago
  I grew up in the midwest and I remember a lot of non-commercial social events like potlucks that were commonplace. Some based around churches, others family groups, and others friend/community based. Talking to my family that still lives there, the number of these events over the decades has dropped dramatically. In general these types of events were low cost and had high socialization. It is thought by some that the commercialization of leisure [1] in advertising culture gives too much time and importance to high expense low socialization gatherings and focuses on convincing the consumer to consume more media thereby increasing advertising. Many social media outlets are thought to worsen this situation by optimizing to keep clicking an app (anger clicking, parasocial relationships, etc) rather than focusing on closer in person relationships. So I would say yes, a lot less people meet in person [2] [1] https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/commercialization-leisure https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almana... [2] https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-their-friends-and-are-lonelier-than-ever-113240 https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-t...